Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
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Alain LeRoy Locke was one of the most consequential intellectual figures in twentieth-century American cultural life: a philosopher...
“I have strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.” Mary Edmonia Lewis, known in childhood...
Job Maseko stands out as one of the most remarkable South African figures of the Second World War—a Black serviceman whose daring act of sabotage in German-occupied Tobruk showcased extraordinary technical...
“I write to tell the truth about the Black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to...
Audrey Layne Jeffers was one of the most consequential social reformers of twentieth-century Trinidad and Tobago: a pioneering...
Tony Martin was a Trinidad and Tobago-born historian, author, educator, publisher, and Pan-African activist whose scholarly life was devoted above all to restoring Marcus Garvey and Garveyism to their proper place...
Samuel “Sam” Sharpe was one of the principal leaders of the Baptist War, the largest uprising of captive...
Richard Wright occupies a commanding place in twentieth-century American and African American letters. Novelist, memoirist, essayist, short-story writer,...
Cassandra Wilson was one of the most original vocal artists in American music: a jazz singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and interpreter whose deep contralto carried Mississippi’s tonal memory into a strikingly...
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…
