On August 17, 1795, the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao witnessed one of the most significant and far-reaching...
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a pioneering African American author who earned international recognition in the late nineteenth and...
“You came to our country — you have driven us from our haunts, and disturbed us in our occupations. As we walk in our own country, we are fired upon by...
Lucien Victor Alexis Sr. was a New Orleans-born educator, scientist, military officer, entrepreneur, and civic leader whose life...
James Van Der Zee was a renowned African American photographer and a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance,...
Tupac Amaru Shakur, born Lesane Parish Crooks on June 16, 1971, was an American rapper, actor, poet, and activist whose brief yet impactful life produced one of the most enduring and...
“Thirty years ago, the MOBO Organisation was born out of a desire to create space where there was...
Jacques Jean-Baptiste Roumain was born on 4 June 1907 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, into an old and affluent family...
Pemulwuy (c.1750–1802) was a Bidjigal warrior of the Dharug Nation and and one of the most formidable resistance leaders against British encroachment and violence in Australia. Born near what the British would...
Lunsford Lane (1803–1879) was a remarkable nineteenth-century entrepreneur, abolitionist, and author who rose from captivity as a house...
Maurice Rupert Bishop (1944–1983) was a charismatic revolutionary who served as Prime Minister of Grenada from 1979 until...
On May 28, 1998, twelve-year-old Jody-Anne Maxwell made history at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. She became the first Jamaican, the first Black person, and—as contemporaries described her—the...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
