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...
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was a South African writer, journalist, translator, and political organizer whose work joined the defense of African rights to the preservation of African language and historical memory. A...
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...
Audrey Layne Jeffers was one of the most consequential social reformers of twentieth-century Trinidad and Tobago: a pioneering social worker, feminist organiser, educator, and political trailblazer whose work reshaped ideas of...
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...
Caesar was an African healer living under forced servitude in early South Carolina whose knowledge of botanical medicine became valuable enough to secure his freedom. In 1750, after years of treating...
Joseph Antonio Emidy (c. 1775–23 April 1835) was an Afro‑Portuguese violinist, composer, and teacher who became one of...
Isaac Burns Murphy was an African-American Hall of Fame jockey, who is considered one of the greatest riders...
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…
