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Sir James Douglas Led the Powerful Hudson’ Bay Company

March 30, 2025

By Dannie Gore, Sr. Sir James Douglas had a scotch father, Caribbean mother, and became one of the great makers of modern Canada. Starting as an apprentice, he rose to be head of the rich and powerful Hudson’s Bay Company. Douglas was chief pioneer of the Canadian Northwest, the First Governor of British Columbia […]

Victor Sejour – France’s Most Popular Playwright in the 1850s

March 17, 2025

By Dannie Gore Victor Sejour, New Orleans Mulatto, rose to be France’s most popular playwright in the 1850s. Born in 1817, he won distinction at the age of 17 with his first poem. In 1836 his parents sent him to Paris to escape America’s color prejudice. Here he became private secretary to Louis Napoleon, later […]

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 […]