Category

Arts

• Augusta Savage

  American sculptor (1892–1962)

• Bessie Smith

  American blues singer (1892–1937)

• Josephine Baker

  American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)

• Mae Jemison

  American doctor and NASA astronaut

• Paul Robeson

  American singer, actor, and political activist (1898–1976)

• The Black Arts Movement

  African American–led art movement, active between the 1960s and 1970s

• The Harlem Renaissance

  African-American cultural movement in New York City in the 1920s

• Hip-Hop Culture and Movement

  rhythmic music accompanied by rhyming speech

• The Négritude Movement

  cultural and political movement developed by a francophone African elite

• Apollo Theater

  theater and music venue in Harlem, New York City

• Kingdom of Benin

  West African kingdom (1180–1897)

• Kuba Kingdom

  kingdom in Central Africa (1625–1884)

• Luba Kingdom

  pre-colonial (8th century (700s)–1889) Central African state that arose in the Upemba Depression

• Nok Culture

  archaeological culture