Otis F Boykin
Otis F Boykin Otis F. Boykin was born on August 29, 1920 in Dallas, Texas. After graduating high school, he attended Fisk College in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated in 1941 and took a jo...
George Carruthers
George Carruthers George Carruthers was born on October 1, 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was a civil engineer while his mother was a homemaker. The family lived in Milford, Ohio and Geor...
François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture
François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture , also Toussaint Bréda, Toussaint-Louverture (May 20, 1743–April 8, 1803) was a leader of the Haitian Revolut...
Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston With over 170 million combined album, singles and videos sold worldwide during her career with Arista Records, Whitney Houston has established a benchmark for superstardom that will q...
The 10 Top-Earning African-American Stars
The 10 Top-Earning African-American Stars Just 15 years old and already winner of six junior championships, a young Tiger Woods told a magazine reporter in 1991, "I'm not out just to be the...
Beverly Johnson: 35 Years After Her Historic Vogue Cover
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Lewis Howard Latimer
Lewis Howard LatimerLewis Howard Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848, six years after his parents, George and Rebecca Latimer, had run away from slavery in Virginia. The...
The Haitian Revolution
The Haitian RevolutionThe Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) was a successful slave revolt against French Colonial powers. It established Haiti as the first republic ruled by blacks. At the time of the ...
Oprah Gail Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey Oprah Gail Winfrey(born January 29, 1954) is an American media personality, Academy Award nominated actress, producer, literary critic and magazine publisher, best known for her...
Jan Ernst Matzeliger
Jan Ernst MatzeligerJan Ernst Matzeliger (1852-1889) was born in Paramaribo, Surinam (Dutch Guiana), South America. His father was a Dutch engineer who married a native Black Surinamese woman. At t...
Henry Blair
Henry Blair Henry Blair was the second Black inventor issued a patent by the United States Patent Office. His first invention was a seed planter which enabled farmers to plant more corn utilizi...
Robert L. Johnson
Robert L. Johnson is the founder, chairman and CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET). He is also the majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association. Johnson grew ...
Patricia Era Bath
Patricia Era Bath When Patricia Era Bath was born on November 4, 1942, she could have succumbed to the pressures and stresses associated with growing up in Harlem, New York. With the uncertaint...
Elijah McCoy
Elijah McCoy Elijah McCoy (1843–1929) invented an oil-dripping cup for trains. In 1837 George and Emillia McCoy, who were slaves in Kentucky, escaped to Canada by using an Underground Railroad ...
Tiger Woods
Tiger WoodsEldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Currently t...
Charles Brooks
Charles Brooks Charles Brooks designed the street sweeper and patented it on March 17, 1896. Prior to his invention, streets were cleaned manually by workers picking up trash by hand or sweepin...
Granville T. Woods
The Multiplex Telegraph Granville T. Woods (1856-1910) is known to many as "The Black Edison," because both were great inventors who came from disadvantaged childhoods. But unlike Edison, Woods w...
Naomi Campbell in Yet Another 'Out of Africa' Spread
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George Washington Carver
George Washington CarverGeorge Washington Carver was born in 1860 in Diamond Grove, Missouri and despite early difficulties would rise to become one of the most celebrated and respected scientists...
Andrew Jackson Beard
Andrew Jackson Beard Andrew Jackson Beard hailed from Eastlake, Alabama, a small town outside of Birmingham. With the emergence of the railroad industry and its rapid expansion throughout the c...
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr.
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr.Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, film producer and rapper. He has enjoyed success in music, television and...
LeBron Raymone James
LeBron Raymone JamesLeBron Raymone James (born December 30, 1984 in Akron, Ohio) is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Associatio...
Supermodel Naomi Sims Dead at 61
Posted: 1969-12-31 19:00:00 ...
Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker was born in 1731 just outside of Baltimore, Maryland, the son of a slave. His grandfather had been a member of a royal family in Africa and was wise in agricultural en...
Miriam E. Benjamin
Miriam E. Benjamin was a school teacher living in Washington D.C. In 1888, Ms. Benjamin received a patent for an invention she called a Gong and Signal Chair for Hotels. Her chair, as s...
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