History has not been good to Onesimus. As smallpox raged across Boston in 1721, the prominent Boston minister Cotton Mather suggested “ye Method of Inoculation” that he had learned from Onesimus, his ...

"Ever heard of Ted Rhodes? There he is, right before Condoleezza Rice." Harvard historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is paging through the index to the eight-volume African American National Biography ...

One Sunday morning in 1962, history was made when a man named Mal Goode became the first African American correspondent for an American TV news network. Goode debuted with a breaking story on the ...

Mary Elizabeth Bowser served Jefferson Davis in the Confederate White House. She was also a spy — for the Union. Bowser's story is one of many... New Encyclopedia Chronicles African American Lives ...

Discovered method for long-term storage of blood plasma Organized America's first large-scale blood bank Dr. Charles Richard Drew broke barriers in a racially divided America to become one of the most ...

Richard Wright towers in American history as one of the literary giants of our time. His powerful chronicle of the lives of African-Americans and the effect of Jim Crow discrimination of laws left an ...

On the first day of one of the first AP African American Studies classes ever taught, Marlon Williams-Clark rattled off a list of Black luminaries to see how many his students had heard of. Only one ...