Asia – China
Derek Burton Collins (1965- )
Derek Burton, the former University of Michigan distinguished classics professor, is the current Dean of the Faculty of Arts at...
Princess Angela of Liechtenstein (née Angela Gisela Brown, 1958- )
The transition of African American actress Meghan Markle to Duchess of Sussex in 2019 brought about by her marriage to...
Herman Perry (1922-1945)
Herman Perry was the target of the “Greatest Manhunt of World War II.” In fact, there is no comparable search...
Mak Pak Shee (1916- ?)
One of the most prominent government ministers in Singapore in the 1950s was Mak Pak Shee whose “very dark” skin...
COVID-19: The Myth and the Reality for Black America
In the article below, Dr. Clarence Spigner, an epidemiologist and professor in the School of Public Health at the University...
Alberta Hunter and the Rhythm Rascals in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II
In the following article independent historian Charles Kastner describes the 1944-1945 tour of Alberta Hunter and the Rhythm Rascals who...
Lionel Hodge Newsom (1919-1991)
Educator and HCBU President Lionel Hodge Newsom was born on November 11, 1919 in Wichita Falls, Texas, to Lawson and...
Deton Brooks (1909-1975)
During World War II, thirty African-American correspondents risked their lives reporting news home from the front-lines of the war. Covering...
Richard Lee Davis (1951?- )
Richard L. Davis is a distinguished historian of middle-period and late imperial China. He was born in Buffalo, New York...
