Author : Asaase Yaa
Black History Month: Gladys West, the mathematician/programmer who mapped the world
Gladys Mae West is the scientific researcher whose brilliance made GPS possible. Born Gladys Brown in the rural segregated South in 1930, during the Great...
Black History Month: W E B Du Bois, scholar, agitator, pioneer Pan-Africanist
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was one of the most influential figures in the Pan-Africanist movement, organising the debut international congresses of leaders from...
Black History Month: Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, chief conductor on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Ross (“Minty”) in March 1822 to a couple on the eastern shore of Maryland who had nine children. Minty felt...
Black History Month: Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American US Supreme Court judge
In October 1967 President Lyndon B Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall to the US Supreme Court, making him the first person of African descent to serve...
Black History Month: Nanny, Asante Maroon leader in 18th-century Jamaica
Queen Nanny of the Maroons (circa 1686-circa 1755) is a legendary figure in Jamaica, a Yaa Asantewaa prototype in armed uprisings against British settlers. Her...
Black History Month: Ottobah Cugoano, anti-slavery campaigner, kidnapped on the Gold Coast at 13
Kobina (“Quobna”) Ottobah Cugoano, a leader in the black community in 18th-century London, is the first known African to demand the total abolition of the...