“Marie Couvent was the first [Black] woman to set the example of an enlightened charity, and that for...
“I just had a God-given talent for making people beautiful…” Zelda Wynn Valdes was a fashion legend who...
E. R. Braithwaite was a Guyanese-American writer, teacher, and diplomat, best known for his semi-autobiographical book To Sir, With Love (1959) which was adapted into a successful film in 1967 starring Sidney...
“I write to celebrate life.” “I would like to be seen as a woman whose roots go back...
Olive Elaine Morris was a Black-British community leader and political activist, who campaigned for racial, gender and social equality,...
In 1999, Thomas Peters, one of the founding fathers of Sierra Leone, was honoured by the Sierra Leone government with inclusion in a movie celebrating the country’s national heroes. A statue...
Alfred Fagon was a Jamaican-born playwright, poet and actor. He was one of the most notable Black British...
According to 100 Great Black Britons website, Queen Phillipa is England’s first Black queen and mother of the...
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an African-American athlete who in 1960 became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at a single Olympic Games. Rudolph became...
“What were they thinking these 492 Jamaicans, as the Empire Windrush slid upstream with the flood between the...
The Bronze Woman, which was unveiled on October 8, 2008, in the south London town of Stockwell at...
You so black You so black When you smile, the stars come out You so black When you born the God come out black as night… Black is pyramid and mathematics...
