Asia – Pakistan
Kurtis Blow/Kurt Walker (1959- )
Legendary rapper, composer, actor, and activist Kurtis Blow was born on August 9, 1959, in Harlem, New York, as Kurt...
British Black Panther Party (1968-1973)
Inspired by the Black Power movement in the U.S., the Nigerian playwright, Obi Egbuna, founded the British Black Panthers (BBP) in 1968 in London’s Notting Hill. In...
The Asian-African (Bandung) Conference: Fact and Fiction
In the article below independent historian Kyle Haddad-Fonda describes the Asian-African Conference popularly known as the Bandung Conference which was...
Will Hurd (1977– )
William Ballard Hurd, the U.S. Representative for Texas’s 23rd Congressional District, was the first African American Republican ever to be...
Robert A. Wood (ca. 1966- )
Robert A. Wood is a diplomat who has spent his career in public affairs, helping to shape the image of...
Kenton Wesley Keith (1939- )
On May 26, 1992, career diplomat Kenton Wesley Keith was nominated by President George H.W. Bush to serve as U.S....
James D. McGee (1949- )
Ambassador James David McGee, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service in the class of Minister Counselor, spent the...
Linda Thomas-Greenfield (1952- )
Linda Thomas-Greenfield is the new United States Ambassador to the United Nations, a Cabinet-level post in the President Joseph Biden...
David Benjamin Bolen (1923- )
Outstanding college athlete and diplomat David Benjamin Bolen, the son of a postal worker, was born in the rural hamlet...
