Articles on Historic Black Figures
The African-American community is overlooking its greatest human resource. This is the only available...
What is The American Black Directory? The American Black Directory is a National Directory of Black owned
businesses...
1922 – 1987
Harold Washington gave Chicago new meangig in terms of character and reputation In...
No black contemporary leader contributed more to the black political and economical power base in Chicago...
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
1897 – 1975 Over the past one hundred years, the black community...
Berry Gordy
A product of Detroit, he worked on an auto assembly line. Then, on the strength of an $800.00...
Charles and Medgar Evers
In most cases when we think of someone who is deemed adventurous, courageous....
Fannie Lou Hamer
1917 – 1970
Fannie Lou Hamer represented the very core of the kind of courage,...
Prior to getting her first real break in Sanford and Son, LaWanda Page had established herself world-wide...
This man is probably the most knowledgeable person in America if not the world on the subject of religion...
Shirley Chisholm should certainly go down in history as one of the most educated, independent, political,...
This man acquired more congressional power and influence than any person ever to serve in the U.S. Congress...
A United States military man, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Collin Powell is a product of...
If you take a Fannie Lou Hamer and educate her, show her all of the cosmopolitan etiquette, you will...
A true champion on and off the court. Words are incapable of verbally depicting your greatness. Best...
Sammy Davis, Jr. has to be the most extraordinary entertainer ever to set foot on the Las Vegas Strip....
When you deal with all the rest, there does come a time when there is simply a case of the best. The...
Al’s Lounge, to include his other enterprises, such as Top Shelf lounge and Ground Zero event center...
This St. Louis native is a co-founding father of the contemporary peace and civil rights movement. If...
Mack Smith was born and reared in Plain Dealing, Louisiana. He was born the son of a barber and carpenter,...
Mickey Leland
I first met Mickey Leland while researching and developing the American Black Directory...
When Coleman Young won the Detroit mayor’s office with 92% of the black vote and with less than...