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Lusia Harris, ‘The Queen of Basketball’

by John Thomas Currently, basketball legend Lusia “Lucy” Harris is getting the attention she received in the mid-seventies when she began earning the title of...

James Jackson, by trade a chemist, by choice a revolutionary 

by Herb Boyd Esther Cooper Jackson was not profiled in this column last week but the paper did feature her obituary, with scant mention of...

Rep. Josiah Walls, Florida’s first Black Congress member

by JOHN THOMAS In last week’s column we took a deep southern dive in our discussion of Vivian Malone. This week the dive continues to...

Aristocratic British family to make history as it heads to Grenada to apologize for owning slaves

by Francis Akhalbey, Face2FaceAfrica.com An aristocratic British family, whose ancestors owned over 1,000 enslaved Africans in Grenada, has announced it will be traveling to the...

Dorothy Pitman Hughes, author, entrepreneur, and powerful voice for women’s rights

The recent convergence of Roe v. Wade and Mother’s Day connects ineluctably with the feminist movement and Gloria Steinem. And thinking of this iconic...

Largely ignored in the U.S., this was the first black man to reach the North Pole in 1909

By Mildred Europa Taylor, Face2FaceAfrica.com Born in Nanjemoy, Maryland, in 1866, Henson was only 11 and without any formal education when he left home after...

A Connecticut Love Story: Matt & Evelyn Lopes55 Years STRONG!

Prologue This story begins in 1947 New Haven.  It tells of 2 New Haveners growing up around each other in the loving communities that were...

James Jackson, by trade a chemist, by choice a revolutionary 

by Herb Boyd Esther Cooper Jackson was not profiled in this column last week but the paper did feature her obituary, with scant mention of...

Bertha Gober, a civil rights activist with a golden voice and powerful pen

by Herb Boyd The recent death of civil rights legend Charles Sherrod, who we profiled in last week’s column, summons a gallery...

Lewis Buckner, the Black architect whose buildings erected 143 years ago in Tennessee are still in good state

Stephen Nartey, Face2FaceAfrica Lewis Buckner’s work began gaining prominence in the 1870s. By the late 19th century, many of the houses in Sevier County in...
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