What’s New: May 2024

Laneeka "Nikki" Barksdale (1972 – 2020), Ballroom dancer

Charles Warner Cansler (1871 – 1953), Educator, author, lawyer, politician, and mathematician

Venetta Lee Fields (1941 –), American vocalist

Isaac Thomas IV Gillam (1932 – 2022), Mathematician, Air Force pilot, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) director

George Franklin Grant (1846 – 1910), Dentist, educator, and inventor    

Mayme Hatcher Johnson (1914 – 2009), Wife of Harlem crime boss Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson

Emery T. Morris (1851 – 1924), Druggist, porter, stationary steam engineer, and civil rights activist

Lewis Kajera Mughogho (1937 – 2022), Scientist and educator    

Jenny Polanco (1958 – 2020), Beauty queen, fashion designer, and entrepreneur    

Ted Rasberry (1913 – 2001), Baseball player    

Sylvia Lyons Render (1913 – 1986), Literary critic, professor, and researcher    

Guy Scott (1944 –), Farmer, journalist, and Vice-President of Zambia 

Althea T. L. Simmons (1924 – 1990), Civil rights activist and attorney    

Earline Smith (1940 –), Cook    

Bonita C. Spence (1961 – 2013), Basketball player and referee, and principal investigator    

Ferdinand Augustus Stewart (1862 – 1937), Physician and the first student of African descent from the Deep South to graduate from Harvard Medical School    

Nakatindi Wina (1945 – 2012), Businesswoman, politician, and granddaughter of the Lozi King (Litunga) Yeta III    

Annie R. Goodin Woodbey (1855 – 1901), Minister and orator    

Carl Saunders Yancey (1945 – 2018), Sergeant in the U.S. Army, undercover narcotics agent with the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in Saigon, and the first African American Massachusetts State Trooper to go directly into the field    

William Henry Yeocum (1848-1905), Civil War soldier, minister of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, and journalist