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W.H. Council founded Alabama A&M University

March 2, 2025

By Dannie Gore, Sr. W.H. Council was born in Fayetteville, NC, in 1848. When he’s was nine years old, he was carried by slave traders to Alabama, where he worked in the cotton fields until set free as a result of the Civil War. He attended one of the first schools opened by Northern teachers […]

Edward Wilmot Blyden, the father of Pan-Africanism

October 25, 2024

By Dannie Gore Edward Wilmot Blyden is considered the father of Pan-Africanism. When he was rejected from theological college in the United States because of his race, he emigrated to Liberia, where he eventually served as Secretary of State from 1864-66. From 1871 to 1873 Blyden lived in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he edited Negro, […]

Monroe Nathan Work, A Quiet Crusader and Diligent Scholar

October 25, 2024

By Dannie Gore Like his contemporaries W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington, Monroe Nathan Work (1866-1945) devoted his life to improving the status of black Americans. Unlike DuBois and Washington, however, Work was a quiet crusader, a painstaking and diligent scholar who believed that he could do more to help the black cause by the […]