Ten Things To Know About Olaudah Equiano
March 31, 2015
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George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1778–1860) was a violinist, composer, and teacher whose musical career took him from the...
“Let us all pass on the knowledge,planting trees in the shade of whichwe ourselves may never sit.” Margaret Busby CBE, Hon. FRSL, also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is celebrated as...
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...
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...
Audrey Layne Jeffers was one of the most consequential social reformers of twentieth-century Trinidad and Tobago: a pioneering...
On May 28, 1998, twelve-year-old Jody-Anne Maxwell made history at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C....
David Harold Blackwell (April 24, 1919 – July 8, 2010) was an American statistician and mathematician whose groundbreaking work in game theory, probability theory, information theory, and statistics shaped the foundations...
Caesar was an African healer living under forced servitude in early South Carolina whose knowledge of botanical medicine...
Joseph Antonio Emidy (c. 1775–23 April 1835) was an Afro‑Portuguese violinist, composer, and teacher who became one of...
Walter Daniel John Tull was a professional footballer and one of the British Army’s first Black commissioned officers. Of African-Caribbean and English heritage, he challenged racial barriers in both professional football...
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…
