United States – Hawaii
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...
Formation of the Buffalo Soldiers, 1866
On July 28, 1866, the Thirty-Ninth Congress passed the Act to increase and fix the Military Peace Establishment of the...
Henry Mason (1931-2020)
Henry “Pistol” Mason was the first Black baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia farm team, the Schenectady Blue Jays in 1955....
Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (1936-1982)
Barack Obama Sr., father of the 43rd President of the United States, was born in the Rachuonyo District, in 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...
Jonathan Scott Holloway (1967- )
Rutgers University President Jonathan S. Holloway was born July 26, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii, the son of an Air Force...
Charles Quinton Brown Jr. (1962- )
On June 9, 2020, four-star general Charles “CQ” Brown Jr. was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to the be...
Charles Wilber “Bullet” Rogan (1893-1967)
Charles Wilber “Bullet” Rogan, also known as Bullet Joe, was a pitcher and outfielder who played most of his baseball...
William Henry Jernagin (1869-1958)
William Henry Jernagin was a Baptist minister, civil rights advocate and Organizer of the Washington Bureau of the National Fraternal...
