Created by Adeyinka Adegoke, MelaninPeople is a social networking app designed to connect a range of Black and brown individuals, businesses and professionals. Nationwide — MelaninPeople is a social media app that aims to connect Black and brown people within one convenient media network. The platform connects black people worldwide to increase socio-economic awareness and Read More…
History
FREEDOM
Freedom is a door walking around Eating grass without a sound Freedom is a river where water flows Were fishes swim Where plants grow You look at the stars and see they’re free Like a flying bird to A little bee Freedom is not a human, it cannot be But it’s many things It’s Read More…
Family of 7 Classical Music Geniuses & Who Are World-Renowned
The Kanneh-Mason siblings are all talented classical musicians on the rise. All in all, they are 7 seven brothers and sisters ranging in age from 10-years old to 23-years old – all of whom play either the violin, the piano, or the cello to a very high standard. Isata Kanneh-Mason plays the piano. Sheku plays Read More…
MAMIE JOHNSON: Played in the Negro Baseball League
Sports: Born in South Carolina in 1935, Mamie Johnson, also known by her nickname “Peanut”, was one of just three women to play in the Negro Baseball League. In 1953, she signed with the Indianapolis Clowns where she became the first female pitcher in the league. Being one of few females playing the league, she Read More…
WAVERLY WOODSON, JR. Saved 200 Men’s Lives in World War II, But Never Received a Medal of Honor
Waverly Woodson, Jr. was a medic from Philadelphia who served in World War II with the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, the only Black combat unit to participate in D-Day. As one of the first Black soldiers to make it onto Omaha Beach in Normandy on June 6, 1944, Woodson ended up saving the lives of Read More…
From slave to architect, meet the South Carolina man who built America’s biggest bridges in the 1800s
Horace King had all the odds against him as he was born into slavery on a South Carolina plantation. He, nevertheless, rose to become a prolific architect and the most respected bridge builder in west Georgia, Alabama, and northeast Mississippi from the 1830s until the 1880s. King built a number of massive bridges, industrial facilities, Read More…