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Allen Allensworth – Black History Month
Allen Allensworth was given birth to in Louisville, Kentucky, on April 7, 1842, within the slavery system of the antebellum South. At the behest of his mother Phyllis, he learned to read from their...
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Chadwick Boseman – Black History Month
Given birth to in South Carolina in 1982, Chadwick Boseman went on to have a prosperous stage profession being an actor, writer and director. During the mid-2000s, Boseman made an appearance on TV in...
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Patricia Bath – Black History Month
Born in Harlem, New York, on November 4, 1942, Patricia Bath became the first African American to complete a residency in ophthalmology in 1973. Two years later, she became the first female faculty...
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Macon Bolling Allen – Black History Month
Macon Bolling Allen was born in 1816 in Indian, and moved to Maine in the early 1840s. In 1844, Allen became the first African American to be admitted to the Maine bar. He died in 1894 in Washington,...
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Aaliyah Haughton – Black Histon Month
Brooklyn-born Aaliyah Dana Haughton began voice lessons soon after she learned to talk. Determined to be a star, she signed an agreement with Jive Records at the age of 12 and became well known in...
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Benjamin Banneker – Black History Month
Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731, in Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland. An absolutely free black who owned a farm near Baltimore. Banneker was mainly self-educated in astronomy by watching the...
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Marian Anderson – Black History Month
Born February 27, 1897, in Philadelphia, Marian Anderson displayed vocal talent as a child, but her family could not afford to pay for formal training. Members of her church congregation raised funds...
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Debbie Allen – Black History Month
Debbie Allen hit it big in 1980, starring in a Broadway revival of West Side Story. Her performance gained her a Tony nomination and landed her a role as a dance instructor in the movie Fame (1980)....
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Maya Angelou Part1 – Black History Month
Maya Angelou is famous for her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made literary history as the first nonfiction best-seller by an African-American woman. In 1971, Angelou published...
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Maya Angelou Part2 – Black History Month
In the future Successes Maya Angelou has written a number of autobiographies all through her career, including All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986) and A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002), but...
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Hank Aaron – Black History Month
Born into humble circumstances on February 5, 1934, in Mobile, Alabama, Hank Aaron ascended the ranks of the Negro Leagues to become a Major League Baseball icon. Aaron played as an outfielder for the...
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Flex Alexander – Black History Month
Flex Alexander was born in New York City on April 15, 1970. Alexander started his profession as a dancer and choreographer, traveling for a long time with the trio Salt-n-Pepa. He then branched out...
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Tichina Arnold – Black History Month
Tichina Arnold was popular for her role as Pam James, opposite Martin Lawrence, on the sitcom Martin. After Martin, Arnold made guest appearances on The Jaime Foxx Show and Soul Food. In 2005, she...
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Ralph Abernathy – Black History Month
Ralph Abernathy was a Baptist minister who, with Martin Luther King Jr., organized the historical Montgomery bus boycotts. He co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was a major...
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Gwendolyn Bennett – Black History Month
Born on July 8, 1902, in Giddings, Texas, Gwendolyn Bennett found success as a poet, fiction writer and journalist during the Harlem Renaissance with publications like The Crisis, New Negro and...
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Wally Amos – Black History Month
Wally Amos was born on July 1, 1936, in Tallahassee, Florida. He started in the mailroom of the William Morris Agency and in 1962 became the first black talent agent in their history. As an agent, he...
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Babyface – Black History Month
Born on April 10, 1959, in Indianapolis, Indiana, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds played with the band The Deele before forming a songwriting/production team with L.A. Reid. The two formed their own label,...
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Otis Boykin – Black History Month
Otis Boykin was born on August 29, 1920, in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from Fisk College in 1941 and took a job with the Majestic Radio and TV Corporation. He later worked at P. J. Nilsen Research...
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Jane Bolin – Black History Month
Jane Bolin graduated from Yale Law School and, after relocating to New York City, became sworn in by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia as the first African-American female judge in the U.S. Quotes I’d rather...
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Will.i.am – Black History Month
Will.i.am is a hit-making master as a solo artist and as a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning group the Black Eyed Peas. The multi-talented singer has also excelled as a songwriter and...
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