United States-Washington D.C
Oscar James Cooper (1888–1972)
Dr. Oscar James Cooper, a physician, is most remembered as one of the co-founders of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.,...
August 13th, 2024
Anthony “Spice” Adams (1980- )
Anthony “Spice” Adams is a former American football player for the National Football League (NFL), actor, comedian, and television host....
August 12th, 2024
Alonzo Harding Mourning Jr (1970- )
Alonzo Harding Mourning Jr is a former National Basketball Association (NBA) star and, more recently, a cancer survivor. Born on...
August 9th, 2024
Edgar Amos Love (1891-1974)
Edgar Amos Love was an American bishop with the Methodist Episcopal Church and cofounder of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Love...
August 8th, 2024
Mary Smith Kelsey Peake (1823-1862)
Mary Smith Kelsey Peake, a pioneering educator, is one of few African American women to have a school, The Mary...
July 22nd, 2024
Nathan Hare (1933-2024)
Nathan Hare, the founder of The Black Scholar: A Journal of Black Studies and Research and called by many scholars...
July 1st, 2024
Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. (1922-2016)
Tuskegee Airman and later College President Roscoe Conkling Brown, Jr., was born March 9, 1922, in Washington, DC, to Roscoe...
April 15th, 2024
Frank Charles Coleman (1890-1967)
Frank Charles Coleman was an American physicist who co-founded Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, one of the oldest African American Greek...
July 26th, 2023
Edith P. Mitchell, MD (1948- )
Edith Peterson Mitchell, MD, was born in 1948, and raised in Brownsville, Haywood County, Tennessee during the time of Racial...
February 10th, 2023