Europe – Norway
Nico & Vinz (2010- )
Rappers Nico & Vinz are a duo born Kahouly Nicolay “Nico” Sereba on December 1, 1990, from Holmlia, Oslo. He...
Arabella Fields (1879-1933)
Arabella Fields was a singer and actress known as “The Black Nightingale” and had a storied career performing in Europe....
Denis Mukwege (1955- )
Dr. Denis Mukwege is a Nobel Prize-winning gynecologist, human rights activist, and Pentecostal pastor from the Democratic Republic of the...
(2009) Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, “A Just and Lasting Peace”
In December 2009, less than one year into his first term in office, President Barack Obama was given the Nobel...
Dorothy Cotton (1930-2018)
Dorothy Cotton was an American civil rights activist and leader, known for being the only woman in the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther...
Amy Sherald (1973- )
Amy Sherald, a portrait artist, was the first African American woman to complete a presidential portrait for the Smithsonian Institution’s National...
Moneta Sleet, Jr. (1926-1996)
Moneta Sleet, Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer involved in the Civil Rights movement, was born on February 14, 1926. His parents, Ozetta Allensworth Sleet...
Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809–1876)
Joseph Jenkins Roberts was the first (1848-1856) and seventh (1872-1876) president of Liberia. Roberts was born free in Norfolk, Virginia...
Leslie M. Alexander (1948- )
Ambassador Leslie M. Alexander was a Career Foreign Service Officer. He was appointed by President William J. Clinton to serve...
