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Australian obstetrician Dr Catherine Hamlin was born in Sydney on 24 January 1924, one of six children of Elinor and Theodore Nicholson. The family lived in the suburb of...
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (born 19 December 1944 in Nairobi) is a politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist. Richard Erskine Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya, a...
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose...
Former U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes played a pivotal role in the quest for civil rights, equality, and social and economic justice throughout his tenure in the Unites States Congress....
Carl Burton Stokes(June 21, 1927–April 3, 1996) was an Americanpolitician of theDemocratic party who served as the 51stmayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967, but took office...
Dr. Olalekan Banwo, a Professor from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, is researching ways to eradicate a rice virus disease that affects developing countries, including his own. The...
In the 1950s the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People was involved in the struggle to end segregation on buses and trains. In 1952 segregation on inter-state...
Bayard Rustin(March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was anAmericanleader insocial movementsforcivil rights,socialism, pacifism andnon-violence, andgay rights. "Bayard" is pronounced to rhyme with hired.
Oliver tambo (Oct 27,1917-April 24,1993) was the president of the South African black-nationalist, African National Congress (ANC) from 1969. He spent more than 30 years in exile. ...
Angelo Soliman (born c. 1721, probably in present-day northeastern Nigeria/northern Cameroon; he died on November 21, 1796, in Vienna). Taken to Europe as a slave, he was freed and...
Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacke, whose real name is Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Habiballah, was of the guides that appear to bring healing when excessive slippage or worse in one...
Michael Joseph Jackson[1] (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials...
Born in Abeokuta on 15th October 1938 as Olufela, Olusegun, Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, he was to be known by one name only: Fela."My father was very strict, I thought he...
Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska,...
Don Cornelius, born September 27, 1936, started out in the insurance business before going to broadcasting school in 1966. He worked as a substitute radio DJ and on TV's...
Born in Jamaica, Marcus Garvey was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League....
Anti-slavery Orator and Writer, 1818-1895 “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society...
Ngalandou Diouf (var. Galandou Diouf) (14 September 1875 - 6 August 1941) born in Saint-Louis Senegal, was the first African elected official from the advent of colonialism in the...