“I write to tell the truth about the Black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to...
Audrey Layne Jeffers was one of the most consequential social reformers of twentieth-century Trinidad and Tobago: a pioneering...
Tony Martin was a Trinidad and Tobago-born historian, author, educator, publisher, and Pan-African activist whose scholarly life was devoted above all to restoring Marcus Garvey and Garveyism to their proper place...
Samuel “Sam” Sharpe was one of the principal leaders of the Baptist War, the largest uprising of captive...
Richard Wright occupies a commanding place in twentieth-century American and African American letters. Novelist, memoirist, essayist, short-story writer,...
Cassandra Wilson was one of the most original vocal artists in American music: a jazz singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and interpreter whose deep contralto carried Mississippi’s tonal memory into a strikingly...
Jessie Redmon Fauset was an editor, novelist, poet, essayist, educator, and scholar whose labor helped make the Harlem...
On August 17, 1795, the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao witnessed one of the most significant and far-reaching...
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a pioneering African American author who earned international recognition in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Renowned for his literary versatility, Dunbar produced a remarkable body...
“You came to our country — you have driven us from our haunts, and disturbed us in our...
Lucien Victor Alexis Sr. was a New Orleans-born educator, scientist, military officer, entrepreneur, and civic leader whose life...
James Van Der Zee was a renowned African American photographer and a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, celebrated for his evocative portraiture. Over his long career, he combined technical mastery...
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…
