Maya Angelou (1928–2014), born Marguerite Annie Johnson, was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published autobiographies, poetry, essays, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received… Continue Reading
Mike Brassell is an American animator, voice actor and composer who provided the narrations heard on Living with the Land and the Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover. Mr. Brassell composed Mount Bop heard in Walt Disney World’s Space Mountain after the… Continue Reading
Karen Malina White is an American actress who has starred in The Cosby Show and A Different World. Ms. White also stared in the movie Lean on Me in 1989. She was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She graduated… Continue Reading
Ms. Woodard was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She can be described as an African-American film, stage, and television actress, political activist, and producer. She was the youngest of three children born to a homemaker mother and her father was an… Continue Reading
Anika Noni Rose is an African American singer and actress. She attended Florida A&M University where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre and went to study drama at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, CA. Ms. Rose has… Continue Reading
Ms. Moore was an African-American film, television, and stage actress. Her most famous role was as Annie Johnson in the movie Imitation of Life in 1959. She was the fifth African -American to be nominated for an Academy Award… Continue Reading
Eartha Kitt (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an African-American actress, singer, activist, and dancer. She was born Eartha Mae Keith on a cotton plantation near North, South Carolina. Her mother, Annie Mae Keith, was of African and Cherokee… Continue Reading
Black History Month started off being Negro History Week created by Carter G. Woodson in 1926. The month of February was chosen due to the birthdays of Fredrick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Teachers were encouraged to teach African-American history in… Continue Reading