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“What is the revolution? Why, it is the very breath of life, that stupendous struggle for relief.  I hear … that voice in the prison of Joliet, in the state of Illinois–wherever there is a man or woman beneath the sun who

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Many of us were introduced to “Stagecoach” Mary Fields through the film “The Harder They Fall,” where she was played by Zazie Beetz. Stagecoach Mary was a powerful figure, who was born into chattel slavery in Tennessee around

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Born in April 1890, Benjamin Harrison Fletcher was a revolutionary Black worker, orator, and militant labor organizer in the early 1900s. Having migrated with his parents to Philadelphia from post-Reconstruction Virginia, Fletcher's first job was wor

Chinua Achebe, the great Nigerian novelist, poet, critic, and educator, was born in Ogidi, British Nigeria on November 16, 1930. Achebe was influenced by Ibo cultural and spiritual traditions and postcolonial Christianity, which preceded and coincide

Willi Ninja, aka the “self described butch queen,” was born in Queens, New York as William Roscoe Leake, April 12, 1961. Willi is hailed as a dancer, choreographer, and the godfather of Voguing, a style of dance that would eventually beco

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Charles Wade Mills, Ph.D. (1951 - 2021) was a professor, educator, and trailblazing philosopher.

Born in England and raised in Jamaica, Dr. Mills earned a bachelor’s degree in physics at the University of the West Indies. He went on to earn a

Althea Gibson was born on August 25, 1927, in the small town of Silver, South Carolina. As the Great Depression had a deleterious impact on rural workers and farmers, Gibson’s family decided to migrate north in the early 1930’s to Harlem,