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Paul Reginald Jervay Sr. (1906-1993)
Paul Reginald Jervay Sr. was a journalist and publisher. He was the editor of North Carolina’s oldest newspaper for African...
Edwin Lowell Cooper (1936- )
Edwin L. Cooper, an internationally-recognized biologist and immunologist, is credited as the founder of comparative immunology. Cooper was born on...
James F. Williams (1963- )
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]James F. Williams serves as the managing partner of the Perkins Coie office in Seattle, Washington, the largest law office...
Karen Elizabeth Nelson (1950- )
Scientist Karen Elizabeth Nelson was born in Jamaica in 1950 and migrated to the United States in the 1970s. She...
Modibo Keita (1915-1977)
Modibo Keita, the first President of Mali, was born on June 4, 1915, in Bamako-Coura, Upper Senegal and Niger (current...
G. James Fleming (1904-1990)
Political Scientist George James Fleming was born in Bassein Triangle, Christiansted, St. Croix, Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands)...
Kariamu Welsh Asante (1949-2021)
Dr. Kariamu Welsh was recognized as a pioneer and trailblazer of African diaspora dance, professor of dance at Temple University...
Jessie R. Fauset (1882-1961)
Jessie Redmon Fauset, known as the “Midwife of the Harlem Renaissance,” was born in Fredericksville, Camden County, New Jersey on...
Harriet Washington (1951- )
Harriet Washington is a prolific author and medical ethicist who wrote the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Medical Apartheid:...
