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The Person In The Portrait: Seeing Through Frederick Douglass’ Eyes

by JAMIL RAGLAND The new haven independent Frederick Douglass stands next to Harriet Tubman as the only people I describe as heroes. They demonstrated enormous courage...

Mother Mary Lange, founder of first African American religious congregation is on the Path to Sainthood

By Ben Ebuka, Face2FaceAfrica.com The Catholic Church has kick-started the process of elevating Mother Mary Lange to Sainthood. “Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood cause of...

Retracing their steps: descendants of 6888th Battalion return to Europe to honor their foremothers

Courtesy of The Afro Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours (SAHT) is thrilled to announce that a group of descendants of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion,...

Trailblazing poet and abolitionist, Jupiter Hammon

It was almost inevitable with any discussion of our early American Black poets, such as Lucy Terry, that Jupiter Hammon would be mentioned. He...

The marvelous Dr. John Cordice Jr.

Although Dr. John Cordice Jr. attended to countless numbers of patients with heart trouble, he is most famous for being one of the three...

OP-ED: Pursuing Martin Luther King Jr.’s Beloved Community

By Congressman James E. Clyburn (D-SC) Martin Luther King, Jr. visited Ghana in 1957 to participate in the celebration of the country’s independence from British...

Black Resistance: the revolutionary act of Black love

By Alexis Taylor, AFRO Managing Editor “My eye soon caught her precious face, but, gracious heavens! That glance of agony may God spare me from...

Trailblazing poet and abolitionist, Jupiter Hammon

It was almost inevitable with any discussion of our early American Black poets, such as Lucy Terry, that Jupiter Hammon would be mentioned. He...

Black History of Health: Arthur Ashe

by Jasmine Browley, BlackDoctor.com In 1963, the gifted tennis player made history as the first Black player to compete for the U.S. Davis Cup team. A...

Susie King Taylor, a devoted teacher and first Black nurse

by Herb Boyd Susie King Taylor’s book “A Black Woman’s Civil War Memoirs—Reminisces of My Life in Camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, late...

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