Category: Historical Figures
Gone But Not Forgotten
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They are no longer with us, but their work and accomplishments are still impacting on the lives of the people that they touched. They are the heroes who turn into legends and forever etch their wonders in the annuals...
The Henson Saga
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Arctic explorer Matthew Henson’s contribution as the co-discoverer of the North Pole is gaining more national recognition. Recently, the National Geographic Society presented its coveted Hubbard Medal posthumously to ...
A Rap with Colin L. Powell
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A discussion of Gen. Colin Powell and whether Americans would elect a black President. (1918)
Stars on Hollywood
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Sammy Davis, Jr. and Ben Vereen explain being Black in a hostile industry. (623)
Secrets UnCovered: J Edgar Hoover
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Secrets Uncovered by Millie McGhee discusses the J. Edgar Hoover question that won’t die? By American cultural standards and practices, one drop of Black blood makes an individual 100% Black. So, was J. Edgar Hoove...
Malcolm X and Judas
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MALCOLM X AND JUDAS: Karl Evanzz, who spent 15 years uncovering more than 300,000 pages of previously classified and hidden information about Malcolm X's assassination, compiled his findings in an explosive new book...
Matthew Henson: The Final Step
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Dr. Allen Counter, Harvard professor, and explorer has discovered the Eskimo descendants of North Pole discoverers Matthew Henson and Robert E. Peary. Dr. Counter talks about Black Igloo, his recent work tracing the A...
Oscar and Jackie, Two of the Same
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Patrick McGilligan is the author of Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only, The Life of America’s First Black Filmmaker offers a vivid and fascinating portrait of this little-known pioneer. (3019)
Frederick Douglass: Orator, Statesman, Abolitionist
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Frederick Douglass, the renowned orator, statesman, and abolitionist and a prominent leader in a colony of England, now known as the United States of America, moved our new nation, led by so-called “white” people who...
