Henry McNeal Turner was a Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was also an author, editor, human rights advocate and fervent proponent of the “Back to Africa” movement. Turner was born free in South Carolina. He was self-educated and recognized as a outspoken gifted speaker. In 1848, he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church […]

The Weekly Anglo-African Magazine was founded in January 1859 by New York–based journalist and book publisher Thomas Hamilton. The Magazine was a key site of African American literary production and political debate. Its list of regular contributors included some of the most celebrated African American writers of the 19th century: Edward Wilmot Blyden, Mary Ann […]

“PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG CONVICT” by H. Bruce Franklin When Chester Himes was nineteen, he was chained upside down, beaten by police until he confessed to an armed robbery, sentenced for twenty to twenty-five years, and incarcerated in the Ohio State Penitentiary. That was in 1928. By the time he was paroled […]

Photo credits: Robin Marchant/Getty Images for Ralph Lauren With a net worth of $6.6 billion, Kanye West (pictured) is now the wealthiest-ever Black person in American history. The music and fashion magnate has leapfrogged from third place to first place–surpassing Oprah Winfrey’s $3.5 billion net worth and Robert F. Smith’s $6.6 billion. Michael Jordan is […]

The Ville is a residential and business district remembered as the cultural center of the African American community in St. Louis, Missouri. The Ville, located just northwest of downtown St. Louis, was open to African Americans during a time that much of the city was covered by restrictive covenants which prohibited African Americans from owning […]

Black Entertainment Television (BET) is a Viacom–owned cable network based in Washington, D.C. The cable channel is viewed in more than 90 million homes worldwide. As of 2010 it was the most prominent television network targeting young black-American audiences and was the leading provider of black American cultural and entertainment based programming.   The network […]

Ruth Braswell Jones was a prominent educator whose career spanned for forty-seven years. Jones was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina on November 21, 1914, and was the seventh daughter, of William and Arkaanna (Sanders) Braswell. Jones received a diploma with distinction from Brick Junior College in North Carolina (1933) and a B.S. degree in […]

Flipboard has been used to gather some of the world’s greatest minds together to order to increase awareness, share information, and open our minds to knowledge not often seen throughout mainstream media. In this Flipboard Find, we learn more about 1667: The year America was divided by race The Burning of Jamestown by Howard Pyle. […]

Operation Big Itch and Operation Drop Kick, the corps explored the feasibility of using fleas and mosquitoes as weapons. Declassified government documents apparently show tests were conducted, but with uninfected mosquitoes. In 1956, the Corps conducted Operation Drop Kick when they released 600,000 uninfected mosquitoes from a plane at Avon Park Bombing Range, Florida. Within […]

Joseph S. Clark was an educator and college president. He served as the president of Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana from 1913 to 1938. Clark was born in Sparta, Louisiana where he attended public and private school. He received his B. A. from Leland College in 1901 and an M. A. Degree from Selma […]

Harlan Paul Douglass was born in Osage, Iowa on January 4, 1871, to Truman Orville and Maria Greene Douglass, and had three brothers and two sisters. After receiving his primary education, Douglass attended Iowa College where he received a Bachelor’s degree in 1891. He went on to further his studies at the Chicago Theological Seminary […]

John A. Hibbler was born in Arkansas in 1878. Hibbler was admitted to practice before the state supreme court on June 30, 1919. Apparently, he was admitted earlier in the circuit court, as he was listed as an attorney in the Little Rock City Directory (Pulaski County, Arkansas) in 1916. Hibbler first appears in politics […]