Audrey Jeffers: Pioneer of Social Welfare in Trinidad and Tobago
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“Study History, Erase The Mystery.” Professor James Small has devoted his life to Pan-Africanism, bringing together historical scholarship,...
Arna Wendell Bontemps was a prominent American writer, poet, and librarian who played a key role during the...
George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1778–1860) was a violinist, composer, and teacher whose musical career took him from the aristocratic courts of Central Europe to the concert halls of Paris, London, and...
Pamela Evans Harris, also known as Trojan Pam, was a Chicago writer, independent publisher, and skilled technician whose...
“Let us all pass on the knowledge,planting trees in the shade of whichwe ourselves may never sit.” Margaret...
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, television producer, businessman, and environmental justice campaigner whose defense of the Ogoni people brought the Niger Delta’s destruction to international attention. Across fiction, journalism, public service...
Born during the Maafa around 1775 or 1776, Gabriel became a skilled blacksmith, a literate artisan, and a...
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 struggle against racial discrimination. As founder and president of the League of Coloured...
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…
