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Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American  who escaped to freedom in a Confederate supply ship and eventually  became a sea captain for the Union Navy. After the war, he became a  successful businessman and politician serving in both houses of the  South Carolina legislature.

Thirty years ago, on February 11 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison. This was his very first TV interview.

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Actor Jesse Williams uses his 2016 BET Awards acceptance speech to motivate and educate.

“You can’t hate the roots of the tree without  ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up  hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place  that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating  ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America,  Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example  of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find  anywhere on this earth.”

Nanny, a national heroine of Jamaica, was the leader of the Windward  Maroons, former enslaved people living in interior communities in the eastern or  windward area of Jamaica during colonial times. As such, her history is  integrated with that of the Maroons, warriors fundamental to the history  of resistance in the Caribbean.

Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable is regarded as the first permanent, non-Indigenous settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the "Founder of Chicago". A school, museum, harbor, park, and bridge have been named in his honor. The site where he settled near the mouth of the Chicago River around the 1780s is identified as a National Historic Landmark, now located in Pioneer Court.

Pointe du Sable was of African descent. During his career, the areas where he  settled and traded around the Great Lakes and in the Illinois Country changed hands several times among France, Britain, Spain and the new  United States. Described as handsome and well educated, Pointe du Sable married a Native American woman, Kitiwaha, and they had two children. In 1779, during the American Revolutionary War,  he was arrested by the British military on suspicion of being an  American rebel sympathizer. In the early 1780s he worked for the British  lieutenant-governor of Michilimackinac on an estate at what is now the city of St. Clair, Michigan north of Detroit.

Point du Sable is first recorded as living at the mouth of the  Chicago River in a trader's journal of early 1790.  By then he had  established an extensive and prosperous trading settlement in what later  became the City of Chicago. He sold his Chicago River property in 1800  and moved to the port of St. Charles, where he was licensed to run a Missouri River ferry. Pointe du Sable's successful role in developing the Chicago River settlement was little recognized until the mid-20th century.

Amina was a Hausa warrior queen of the city-state Zazzau (present-day city of Zaria in Kaduna State), in what is now in the north-west region of Nigeria. She ruled in the mid-sixteenth century and had one of the most successful leaderships in history.

Kwame Nkrumah was born on September 21, 1909, in Nkroful, Gold Coast  (now Ghana), and shepherded the country in its struggle for independence from Great Britain. He went on to be named life president of both the  nation and his party, until the army and police in Ghana seized power in  1966 and he found asylum in Guinea.