Gale eBooks

"ISSN 1058-1316"

Tiny Archibald -- Nicole A. Avant -- Corrine Brown -- Ruth Brown -- Calvin O. Butts III -- Barbara Smith Conrad -- Carl Crawford -- Thomas J. Dorsey -- Warrick Dunn -- James Durham -- William Lewis Eagleson -- Missy Elliott -- Benjamin Fletcher -- Barney Ford -- Thomas O. Fuller -- Harvey Fuqua -- Laurent Gbagbo -- Ghostface Killah -- Hugh Morris Gloster Sr. -- Charles Gomillion -- Eliza Ann Grier -- Bernard A. Harris -- Luisa Harris-Stewart -- Andrew T. Hatcher -- Michael Healy -- Josiah Henson -- Angelo Herndon -- Bell Hooks -- James A. Jackson -- Eddie Bernice Johnson -- Hall Johnson -- Robert Elijah Jones -- Tom Joyner -- Hubert Julian -- Elizabeth Keckley -- William Henry Lane -- Hubert Laws -- James M. Lawson Jr. -- Larry Little -- Louis E. Lomax -- Karl Malone -- Mirlande Manigat -- Ellis Marsalis -- Wynton Marsalis -- Michel Martelly -- John Willis Menard -- Ferdinand Q. Morton -- Randy Moss -- Nelly -- Michelle Obama -- Alassane Ouattara -- Karen Carter Peterson -- Wendell Pierce -- David Robinson -- Calvin Smyre

Provides informative biographical profiles of the important and influential persons of African American and/or black heritage. Covers persons of various nationalities in a wide variety of fields, including architecture, art, business, dance, education, fashion, film, industry, journalism, law, literature, medicine, music, politics and government, publishing, religion, science and technology, social issues, sports, television, theater, and others