Hannibal Barca (247 B.C. – 183/181 B.C.) is considered by many to be one of the greatest military leaders of antiquity. His exploits as a young commander of the Carthaginian army gained him legendary fame by his people and fear and hatred by their enemy, Rome. But...
Daniel Hale Williams was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, on January 18, 1856. A little less that twenty years after the ending of the Civil War, in 1883, Daniel graduated from Chicago Medical College with his M.D.[1] From the beginning, Dr. Williams, or Dr. Dan...
In the 1960s, the Civil Rights movement in the United States is remembered for the demonstrations and attempts at peaceful protests against racism and segregationist policies. At the forefront of this movement were Dr. Martin Luther King and his approach to effect...
The second successful revolution which led to independence of a country from a foreign power in the Americas occurred in Haiti. In 1791, a rebellion started by African-descended slaves engulfed the island nation focused mainly against the sugar plantation owners and...
Today’s Tuskegee University in Alabama was first known as the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. It was created by the will of a former slave and by money provided by the Alabama legislature. But it was the guiding influence and management by Booker T....
The definition of the term “African Diaspora” may have different meanings for people. In one simple definition it is defined as “a label that is used to describe the dispersed people removed/exiled from a common territorial/geographic origin, Africa.” It is...
There are many scholars who would say that the “father of medicine” would probably be the ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates, who was born in 460 B.C. He has been credited with making medicine into a rational science rather than one based on magic or superstition,...
Before the 1920s, many scholars and scientists believed that the origins of human beings were traced back to Europe or Asia based on archaeological finds in those regions. But in 1924, a discovery in South Africa became the first step to changing this perception of...
She was given the name “Fundi” which is a Swahili word roughly meaning a person who passes down a craft to the next generation. It was this moniker that reflected the life work of Ella Baker, one of the most prominent female black activists of the Civil Rights...
Moneta Sleet Jr. received his first camera (a box version) as a child, but professional photography wouldn’t become a calling until he went to college at Western Kentucky State College when he switched majors to photography. After World War II, he continued his...