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Sister Patricia Marie Williams

by Herb Boyd In 2015, journalist Benjamin Parkin of The Africa Paper published a wonderful profile on Sister Patricia Marie Williams, a renowned Black nun...

Man Opens First Black-Owned Breast Cancer Center in honor of Late Mother

By Birmingham Times - Andrea Blackstone WKYC reported that Ohio’s first Black-owned breast cancer center recently opened in Akron’s Kenmore neighborhood. Lavar Jacobs wanted to...

Addison Jones, the famous African-American cowboy who could top off horses other cowboys feared

by Stephen Nartey, Face2FaceAfrica.com Gonzales County in Texas was one of the places where riding horses and tending to cattle was the first love of...

How Stephen Smith, once the richest Black man in U.S., used his wealth to free thousands of African Americans

By Stephen Nartey, Face2Faceafrica.com One of his notable legacies is getting 15,000 people of African descent to move to Canada after the passage of the...

Gertrude Morgan, founding member of the Niagara Movement and the NAACP

On several occasions, it has been my pleasure to salute some of the relatively unknown members of the famed Niagara Movement (1905–1909), which—as many...

Ernestine Anderson gave ‘Harlem Nocturne’ and other songs special resonance

Working on a book about music in Harlem, particularly songs that referenced the community, I had concluded that “Harlem Nocturne” would be on the...

Childhood memories of Annie L. Burton

By John tnomas We are not sure if the image on this book is actually Annie L. Burton or one of the other...

Butler Wilson, a leading attorney and civic activist

Last week’s column devoted to Angelina Weld Grimké brought to mind her father Archibald Grimké, the prominent lawyer and abolitionist. And any mention of...

Alonzo Herndon, one of the first Black millionaires

We’ve devoted a considerable amount of time and space to the Niagara Movement over the last several weeks, including two women who played pivotal...

Actor Laurence Criner, an early matinee idol and leading man

If I had paid closer attention to “The Duke Is Tops,” the 1938 film starring Ralph Cooper and Nina Mae McKinney, I would have...

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