Asia – Singapore
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...
Synthia SAINT JAMES (1949- )
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Synthia SAINT JAMES minidoc Born on February 11, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, Synthia SAINT JAMES is a self-taught...
Donald Jasper Harris (1938- )
Donald Jasper Harris is a Jamaican American economist, author, and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University in Stanford, California, since his...
Mak Pak Shee (1916- ?)
One of the most prominent government ministers in Singapore in the 1950s was Mak Pak Shee whose “very dark” skin...
Vernie Merze Tate (1905-1996)
Merze Tate, a historian, political author, world traveler, and philanthropist, was the first African American to graduate from Oxford University. ...
Maurice Darrow Bean (1928-2009)
In 1977, career diplomat Maurice D. Bean was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Burma...
Eunice S. Reddick (1951- )
Eunice S. Reddick, an American diplomat and United States Ambassador to the Republic of Niger, was born in 1951 in...
Larry Gossett (1945- )
Born on February 21, 1945 in Seattle, Washington to parents, Nelmon and Johnnie Carter Gossett, Larry Gossett has been a...
