William Davidson: A Jamaican Radical in Cato Street
William Davidson (c.1781–1 May 1820) was a Jamaican‑born, Black British radical in early nineteenth-century Britain. His execution for the Cato Street Conspiracy places him at...
Category : African-Caribbean
Hubert Henry Harrison: Father of Harlem Radicalism
Hubert Henry Harrison (1883–1927) was a towering Caribbean-born intellectual, agitator, and educator whose life forces us to rethink the origins of Harlem radicalism, the New...
The Trees Fall, the Forest Speaks: The Life of Jacques Stephen Alexis
Jacques Stephen Alexis (1922–1961) was a Haitian novelist, neurologist, and Marxist political activist whose life and work came to embody the intertwined struggles for culture,...
Billy Strachan: A World War 2 RAF Hero
Billy Strachan was a World War 2 RAF hero and civil rights pioneer. A campaigner against colonialism, he was a member of the Communist Party...
E.R. Braithwaite: The Guyanese-American author of “To Sir With Love”
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...
Walter Rodney: The Afrikan-Caribbean Revolutionary Scholar and Activist
“Walter Rodney was Most Rare. He is an exemplar. He belongs in that rare category of Marcus Garvey, CLR James, George Padmore and Frantz Fanon.”...
Makandal: The Haitian Maroon Leader
François Makandal (or Mackandal) is a legendary historical figure of Haiti. He was a Maroon leader who organized one of the earliest sustained attempts to...
Henry Sylvester Williams: The Father of Pan-Africanism
Henry Sylvester Williams was a Trinidadian lawyer and writer who has come to be known as the Father of Pan-Africanism. Williams coined the phrase, Pan-African...
Constantin Henriquez de Zubiera: The first Black Olympian
The first Black athlete to compete at the Olympics was Haitian-born French rugby player Constantin Henriquez de Zubiera, who competed for France in 1900. As...
Joseph Phillipe Lemercier Laroche: The only Titanic victim of known African ancestry
Joseph Phillipe Lemercier Laroche, is the only passenger of African ancestry who died on the ill-fated voyage of the Titanic on April 15, 1912. Laroche,...