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A master of portraits, Edwin Harleston #BlackHandSide
On this date in 1882, Edwin Harleston was born. He was an African American painter. From Charleston, S.C., Edwin Augustus Harleston was one of eight children, his father was a […]
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Kwame Nkrumah fathered Pan-Africanism
On this date we mark the birth of Kwame Nkrumah in 1909. He was a Black African Statesman and political activist from Ghana. He led his country to independence from […]
A Caribbean Patriot, Sir William Arthur Lewis
Sir William Arthur Lewis was born on this date in 1915. He was a Black Caribbean economist, educator and Nobel Prize winner. From St. Lucia, he was the fourth son […]
Carter G. Woodson, pioneering Black historian
Carter Godwin Woodson was born on this date in 1875. He was an African American writer, educator and historian. Born into poverty in Buckingham County, Virginia, Woodson supported himself by […]
The Grandfather of Black History
The Grandfather of Black History In his 1925 essay, The Negro Digs Up His Past, Arthur Schomburg highlights three major points about the increasingly systematic study of our history and […]
The Honorable Marcus Garvey
This date marks the birth of Marcus Garvey in 1887. He was an African American Black Nationalist leader, who was a proponent of the “Back to Africa” movement in the […]
The Last African Slave Born in America – Cudjo Lewis
Cudjo Lewis (the last African slave in America) born The birth of Cudjo Lewis, c 1840 is celebrated on this date. He was an African laborer in America, Historian and […]