Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid (/kɪnˈkeɪd/; born May 25, 1949) is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John’s, Antigua (part of the twin-island nation of Antigua…
Nadya Mason
Nadya Mason is the Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a condensed matter experimentalist, she works on the quantum limits of low-dimensional…
Aziza Baccouche
Zohra Aziza Baccouche (‘Dr. Z’) was an American physicist and science filmmaker. She was an American Association for the Advancement of Science Mass Media Science and Engineering fellow at CNN…
Shirley Ann Jackson
Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African-American woman to have earned…
Emeagwali, Philip
News wires white papers and books Emeagwali, Philip 1954– Emeagwali, Philip 1954– Views 2,187,298Updated Philip Emeagwali 1954– Mathematician, engineer, computer scientist Hated Computers Set—and Broke—World Record Sources Philip Emeagwali (pronounced…
Black August (Commemoration)
Black August is an annual commemoration and prison-based holiday to remember Black political prisoners, Black freedom struggles in the United States and beyond, and to highlight Black resistance against racial,…
Diana Ross
Diana Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. She rose to fame as the lead singer of the vocal group The Supremes, who became Motown’s most…
Earl Grant
Earl Grant (January 20, 1931 – June 10, 1970) was an American pianist, organist, and vocalist popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu
Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu (22 September 1924 – 5 August 1996) was a Zanzibar-born Marxist and pan-Africanist nationalist who played an important role in the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution and served as…
Something Good – Negro Kiss
Something Good – Negro Kiss is a short silent film from 1898 of a couple kissing and holding hands. It is believed to depict the earliest on-screen kiss involving African…