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Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist and anthropologist most famous for her 1937 novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”…
Scholar and historian Charles Blockson has become one of the foremost experts on Black history, culture and the Underground Railroad.…
Tragedy inspired Dr. Margaret Lawrence to pursue a career in medicine and despite facing sexism and extreme racism, she never…
Theologian, minister, author, and activist Howard Thurman was best known as an influence and early mentor of some of the…
Dr. Ruth Wright Hayre’s life story is one of extreme determination and strong legacy of Black excellence. She became the…
Emmett Chappelle was a scientist and inventor who brought forth a wealth of innovation to the masses by way of…
William Boyd Allison Davis, widely as Allison Davis, was a pioneering educator and anthropologist who made history by becoming the…
Euphemia Lofton Haynes made history in 1943 by becoming the first Black woman in the United States to earn a…
Dr. Asa Grant Hilliard, in his words, considered himself “a teacher, a psychologist, and a historian,” first and foremost. The…
Monroe Nathan Work didn’t enter high school he was 23, but became one of the leading sociologists of his time.…
Frank Snowden Jr. was a Classics professor and scholar who studied the lives of Black people during the Classical Antiquity…
Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the most important poets of his era. The Ohio native was born on June…
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