Arna Wendell Bontemps was a prominent American writer, poet, and librarian who played a key role during the...
George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1778–1860) was a violinist, composer, and teacher whose musical career took him from the...
Pamela Evans Harris, also known as Trojan Pam, was a Chicago writer, independent publisher, and skilled technician whose creative life spanned fiction, visual design, and books on racism, relationships, and Black...
“Let us all pass on the knowledge,planting trees in the shade of whichwe ourselves may never sit.” Margaret...
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, television producer, businessman, and environmental justice campaigner whose defense of the Ogoni people...
Born during the Maafa around 1775 or 1776, Gabriel became a skilled blacksmith, a literate artisan, and a revolutionary organizer who sought to transform Virginia. In the summer of 1800, he...
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was a South African writer, journalist, translator, and political organizer whose work joined the defense...
Harold Arundel Moody was a Jamaican-born physician whose work in London joined medical care, Christian service, and the...
Henri Christophe (c. 1767–1820) was one of the commanding figures of the Haitian Revolution and the founder of the northern Kingdom of Haiti. Soldier, general, statesman, and monarch, he helped defeat...
Millie Small was one of the first Jamaican performers to become a global pop star. With the joyous,...
Val Irvine McCalla was a Jamaican-born British accountant and media entrepreneur who founded The Voice, transforming the landscape...
John Brown Russwurm (1799–1851) was one of the most consequential and debated Black intellectuals of the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. A Jamaican-born scholar, educator, journalist, abolitionist, emigrant, and colonial governor, he crossed...
