Mansa Musa - The Richest Man In The World
Mansa Musa, born around 1280 into the Keita dynasty, ruled the Mali Empire from 1312 to about 1337 and transformed it into one of the richest and most powerful states of the medieval world. Under his ...
8 Maj 202513min
Eljah McCoy - The Missing Blueprints
Elijah McCoy -Elijah McCoy (1844–1929) was a Canadian-American inventor and mechanical engineer whose innovations revolutionized industrial lubrication. Born in Ontario to formerly enslaved parents an...
8 Maj 202513min
Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche - The Only Black Man On The Titanic
Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche (1886–1912) was a Haitian-born engineer who in 1904 became the only Black student in his class at the École Centrale Paris. After graduating, racial barriers kept him...
8 Maj 202512min
William and Ellen Craft - A Daring Escape
William and Ellen Craft were an extraordinary couple born into slavery in Macon, Georgia—he in 1824, she in 1826. Ellen’s very light skin allowed her to pose convincingly as a young white male “planta...
8 Maj 202513min
Tusla Race Massacre - The Shadow Figure
The Tulsa Race Massacre which has been historically under-taught and even silenced in schools, with some arguing that this is due to a desire to avoid acknowledging the event's painful racial implicat...
7 Maj 202511min
Yasuke - African Samurai
Yasuke, who was a samurai of African origin who served Oda Nobunaga between 1581 and 1582, during the Sengoku period.
7 Maj 202511min
Bayard Rutin - A Civil Rights Leader Forced To The Shadows
Bayard Rutin a key figure in the civil right era, an architect of peaceful protest, yet was he was forced to labor behind the scenes often over looked for his contributions because of his sexuality
6 Maj 202510min
