Occupation-Educator-University Professor
William Robert Harvey (1941- )
William Robert Harvey is an educator, businessman, academic administrator, and the longest-serving tenured HBCU president in history, as the 12th...
John Brooks Slaughter (1934- )
John Brooks Slaughter is an electrical engineer, retired university president, college professor, and the first African American to serve as...
Rufus Early Clement (1900-1967)
Rufus Early Clement was an educator and administrator who served as president of Atlanta University Center, a consortium of historically...
Gil Noble (1932-2012)
Gilbert Edward Noble was a pianist, producer, professor, news anchor, television host, and documentarian. His entry into media was largely...
Festus Samuel Okotie-Eboh (1912-1966)
Chief Festus Samuel Okotie-Eboh, one of the Founding Fathers of the Republic of Nigeria, was born on July 18, 1912...
José Barbosa (1857-1921)
José Celso Barbosa Alcalá, a physician, polemicist, professor, politician, and publisher, was born on July 27, 1857 in Bayamón, Puerto...
Imari Abubakari Obadele, I (1930-2010)
Imari Obadele, black power activist, reparations advocate, and college professor, is best known as co-founder of the Republic of New...
Carrie Mae Weems (1953- )
Carrie Mae Weems is an internationally renowned artist, best known for her work in photography. Weems has also used fabric,...
Derek Walcott (1930-2017)
A professor, poet, and playwright of English, Dutch, and African descent, Derek Walcott was a 1981 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant...
