George Junius Stinney Jr. (born October 21, 1929, died June 16, 1944) was, at age 14, the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century. Classification: Homicide...

Moshood Adisa Olabisi Ajala, popularly known in Nigeria and across the globe as ‘Ajala the traveller‘, was the man who toured the United States of America on a...

The woman who we know as Elizabeth Bathory was born on August 7th, 1560 in Nyirbator in the Kingdom of Hungary. She was born into one of the...

Sarah ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789 at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape. She belonged to the cattle-herding Gonaquasub group of the Khoikhoi. Sara...

Amina of Zaria (1533-1610), commonly known as the warrior queen, expanded the territory of the Hausa people of north Africa to the largest borders in history. More than...

Ota Benga was a Congolese Mbuti pygmy, best known for being featured in an exhibit in the Bronx Zoo in New York, with monkeys. He was initially brought...

Donald Justice (August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American poet and teacher of writing. In summing up Justice's career David Orr wrote, "In most ways, Justice was no different from...

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro government Association and African Communities...