Harold Arundel Moody was a Jamaican-born physician whose work in London joined medical care, Christian service, and the...
Henri Christophe (c. 1767–1820) was one of the commanding figures of the Haitian Revolution and the founder of...
Millie Small was one of the first Jamaican performers to become a global pop star. With the joyous, high-pitched exuberance of “My Boy Lollipop,” she carried ska from Jamaica’s dancehalls into...
Val Irvine McCalla was a Jamaican-born British accountant and media entrepreneur who founded The Voice, transforming the landscape...
John Brown Russwurm (1799–1851) was one of the most consequential and debated Black intellectuals of the nineteenth-century Atlantic...
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, born Hubert Gerold Brown and widely known during the 1960s as H. Rap Brown, was a Black Power organiser, writer, Muslim imam, and community leader. He rose to...
The arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury on 22 June 1948 stands as a defining moment in...
Nicolás Guillén Landrián was one of the most original filmmakers of the Cuban Revolution’s first decades. An Afro-Cuban...
Samora Moisés Machel stands as one of the twentieth century’s most inspiring and influential African leaders—a visionary guerrilla commander, the dynamic president of FRELIMO, and the first President of independent Mozambique....
“Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.” Saint Cyprian of Carthage—bishop, theologian,...
Cyprian Ekwensi was a pioneering Nigerian author, pharmacist, broadcaster, and public servant. Widely regarded as a chronicler of...
bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, was one of the most influential Black feminist thinkers, cultural critics, educators, and public intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Over a...
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…
