Europe – Denmark
Cape Coast Castle (1652- )
Cape Coast Castle is a European-built fortress situated on the central coastline of Ghana. Since its initial construction in 1652,...
Juano Hernandez (1896-1970)
Juano G. “Juano” Hernández, Hollywood’s first Afro-Latino actor, was a polylingual self-educated Puerto Rican stage and film actor who was...
William Henry Johnson (1901-1970)
William Henry Johnson was an African American expressionist painter. He was born on March 18, 1901, in Florence, South Carolina,...
The Partition of Africa (1886-1914)
The Partition of Africa began in earnest with the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, and was the cause of most of...
Tupac in Sarajevo: The Rise of Rebellion Rap in Eastern Europe
Vildana Muratovic, a native of Bosnia-Herzegovina and now a citizen of the United States, describes the impact of hip-hop music...
The Black Presence in Pre-20th Century Europe: A Hidden History
In the following account, Professor Allison Blakely of Boston University describes the presence of blacks in Early Modern Europe. His...
Dolores Cooper Shockley (1930- )
Dolores Cooper was the first African American woman in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. in pharmacology. She was also...
Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972)
Quintessential gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, often called the “Queen of Gospel,” was born on October 26, 1911, to an impoverished...
E. Franklin Frazier (1894-1962)
Edward Franklin Frazier, the most prominent African American sociologist of the 20th Century, was born on September 24, 1894 in...
