Media – Print
John Brown (AKA ‘Fed’ and ‘Benford’) (1818-1876)
John Brown (also known as “Fed” and “Benford”) of Southampton County, Virginia is best remembered as an escaped enslaved person...
Roy DeCarava (1919-2009)
Roy Rudolph DeCarava was the first African American to receive the Guggenheim Fellowship. Born on December 9, 1919 in Harlem...
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) (1940- )
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) was founded in 1940 by John H. Sengstacke. Sengstacke, then in his 30s, was Vice President and...
Alice Allison Dunnigan (1906-1983)
Alice Allison Dunnigan was the first African American female correspondent at the White House and the first black female member of the...
Samuel Raymond Scottron (ca. 1843-1905)
Samuel Scottron was an inventor of the late 1800s, best known for his invention of the curtain rod. It is...
Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana (1949- )
Afro-German politician, human rights activist, and scholar Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana was born in Bamako, Mali, but grew up in Dakar, Senegal, the daughter of a Cape Verdean mother, Dona...
Robert Tecumtha Browne (1882-1978)
Mystic cult leader, intellectual, author, and war survivor Robert T. Browne was born in a shack near LaGrange, Texas, on July 16,...
Algiers Motel Incident (1967)
The Algiers Motel Incident occurred in Detroit, Michigan on July 25, 1967, two days after the Detroit Race Riot began....
Eustace Edward Ricardo Braithwaite (1912–2016)
“Image Ownership: Public Domain” Eustace Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, more commonly known as E.R. Braithwaite, was a Guyanese-born British-American novelist,...
