Category: World’s Notable Icons

Olaudah Equiano, a prominent African figure, who fought against slave trade, was born in Essaka, an Igbo village in the kingdom of Benin in 1745. He is best known for his significant contribution in abolishing …

Jean Toomer, an American poet as well novelist, was born on 26th December 1894 and died on 30th March 1967. He was also a significant figure of the Harlem Renaissance. He attended various institutions the …

“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”― Miles Davis Miles Davis, one of the greatest visionaries and the most prominent musicians of …

Phillis Wheatley, the most notable name in African-American women and the first and most accomplished African-American poet whose achievements and popularity swept away the sense of intellectual inferiority among black people. Many of her accomplishments …

Dr Maya Angelou, an American author, dramatist, producer, historian, civil right activist and celebrated poet, was born on 4th April 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. She is called to be the most influential female autobiographer …

Michael Joseph Jackson, American singer-songwriter, musician, artist, dancer, and philanthropist, was born on 29 August 1958, in an African American working-class family who lived in Indiana. His mother was Katherine Esther Scruse, a devout Jehovah’s …

Barack Obama, the president of United States, was born on August 4, 1961 to a black Kenyan father, Barack Obama Sr. And a white American mother, Ann Dunham. Barack’s father left him with his mother …