Asia – India
Frenise Avedis Logan, Sr. (1920-1995)
Diplomat, Historian, Poet, Frenise Avedis Logan, Sr. was born September 30, 1920, in Albany, Georgia but grew up in Cleveland,...
Lydia Fedorovna Arkhipova (1914-1997)
Lydia Fedorovna Arkhipova was a prolific painter who achieved fame in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and abroad. She...
The Black Pacific, 1919-1941: African Americans and Asia in the Interwar Period
In the following article novelist and independent historian Amy Sommers briefly outlines the experience of African Americans in Asia between...
Ikhlas Khan (a.k.a. Malik Raihan Habshi, ?-1656)
The East African presence in the royal courts of India can be traced back to the 13th century. By the...
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...
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...
