Biography of Dr. Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice was born on November 14, 1954 Birmingham, Alabama, is an American professor, politician, diplomat and author. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second person to hold … read more
Biography of Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana, U.S. & died on June 25, 2009 in Los Angeles, California, U.S., was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Often referred to … read more
Biography of Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, born on February 4th, 1913 & died on October 24, 2005, was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights … read more
Biography of Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey was born on Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States, is an American television host, actress, producer, and philanthropist, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which … read more
Biography of Barack Obama
United States Senator. Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with … read more
Biography of Colin Powell
Colin Luther Powell, US Army General was born in Harlem on April 5, 1937. His parents were Jamaican immigrants who stressed the importance of education and personal achievement, Powell was raised in the South Bronx … read more
Biography of Carol Moseley Braun
Politician, Senator, lawyer, educator. Born Carol Elizabeth Moseley on August 16, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. A leading African American political figure, Moseley Braun’s career has been marked by great successes and missteps. She graduated from … read more
Biography of Harriet Tubman
Born into slavery in 1820 in Bucktown on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Reared in slavery, she married a free black, John Tubman, in 1844. He opposed her plans to flee north, so she escaped … read more
Biography of Pretty Boy Floyd (Charles Arthur)
Criminal, bank robber. Born Charles Arthur Floyd in Georgia, one of seven children. His family moved soon after to Oklahoma, where they owned a farm and were extremely poor. After an unlikely first career as … read more
Biography of J. R. R. Tolkien
Philologist and writer, born in Bloemfontein, EC South Africa. He studied in Birmingham and at Oxford, where he became professor of Anglo-Saxon (1925-45) and Merton professor of English language and literature (1945-59). His scholarly works … read more
Biography of Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
American physicist and inventor of the Van de Graaff generator, a type of high-voltage electrostatic generator that serves as a type of particle accelerator. This device has found widespread use not only in atomic research … read more
Biography of Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an African-American author. Her most famous novel is Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, grew up in Eatonville, Florida; … read more
Biography of Jack Roosevelt Robinson
Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) became the first African American Major League Baseball player of the modern era in 1947. Robinson’s achievement has been recognized by the retirement by each … read more
Biography of Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928. When Maya Angelou was just eight, she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend and for the next five years was … read more
Biography of Halle Berry
Born August 14, 1968, in Cleveland, Ohio, Halle is the youngest daughter born to Jerome and Judith Berry, an interracial couple. Halle, and her older sister Heidi, spent the first few years of their childhood … read more