Legacies of African Americans in Transnational History and their descendants

Ambassadior Johnny Young Bahrain

Ambassador Johnny Young-Bahrain, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Madagascar, Guinea, Kenya, Qatar, and Barbados

JOHNNY YOUNG (1940-) POSTED ONFEBRUARY 23, 2015BY CONTRIBUTED BY: HERBERT G. RUFFIN II Ambassador Johnny Young, 2002...
AmbassadorMauriceParkerAndorra

Maurice Parker Consul General to Spain and US Representative to Andorra and Ambassador to Swaziland (Eswatini)

MAURICE S. PARKER (1949- ) POSTED ONJUNE 12, 2015BY CONTRIBUTED BY: AYODALE BRAIMAH Ambassador Maurice S. Parker...

Archie Shepp-Algeria

Crazy Jazzmen of Africa: BYG and the 1969 Pan‑African music festival in Algeria by Jacques Denis...
Thad Jones-Denmark

Thad Jones-Denmark

Jones, Thad Thad Jones was born in Pontiac, Michigan on March 28, 1923, into a...
John_L_Withers_IIAlbania

Ambassador John L. Withers II

1948- POSTED ONOCTOBER 21, 2017 BY CONTRIBUTED BY: HERBERT G. RUFFIN II Fair use image In 2007, Ambassador John L....

Lia Miller – Armenia

African American Women Strive To Increase Diversity In The Ranks of U.S. Foreign Service NOV...
BarneyFordMuseum_Nicaragua

Barney Ford- Colorado and Nicaragua

Barney Ford - The Man A former enslaved person from South Carolina, Barney Ford escaped...
Wayne_BlackAfghanistan

General Wayne L Black- Afghanistan

WAYNE L. BLACK (1962?- ) POSTED ONJULY 4, 2018BY CONTRIBUTED BY: AUGUST PASSANNANTE Wayne Black Public domain...

Paul Robeson Spain

About ‘Robeson in Spain’ Paul Robeson’s concerns about fascism in the 1930s—military aggression, racial injustice,...

Jessica Davis Ba- Ivory Coast

MARCH 2, 2023 AMBASSADOR JESSICA DAVIS BA Jessica Davis Ba is a Senior Foreign Service...