Europe – Romania
Zhan Vensanovych Beleniuk (1991- )
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Afro-Ukrainian champion athlete and politician Zhan Beleniuk was born January 24, 1991 in the capital city of Kyiv (a.k.a. Kiev)...
Arabella Fields (1879-1933)
Arabella Fields was a singer and actress known as “The Black Nightingale” and had a storied career performing in Europe....
Elwyn Albert Adams (1933-1995)
As a child, concert violinist and professor Elwyn A. Adams was a musical prodigy of some notoriety in the African...
Denyce Graves (1964- )
Denyce Graves is a renowned mezzo-soprano opera singer. She has performed at opera houses around the world and is best known for her roles...
Arthur W. Lewis (1926-2019)
Arthur W. Lewis was a career foreign officer who served in diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe and Africa before retiring...
Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. (1899-1990)
Clifton R. Wharton, one of the first African-Americans to hold a professional position in the U.S. State Department, was born...
Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972)
Kwame Nkrumah, the first prime minister (1957-1960) and president (1960-1966) of the Republic of Ghana, was the leader of the...
Roman Slavery and the Question of Race
Most historians of the Roman world have decoupled the concepts of bondage and race that are central to the arguments...
Orison Rudolph Aggrey (1926-2016 )
U.S. Ambassador Orison Rudolph Aggrey was born in Salisbury, North Carolina, the son of James Emman Kwegyir, an African immigrant...
