Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Édouard Glissant was one of the great Caribbean writers and thinkers of the twentieth century: a Martinican poet,...
John Sayers Orr—known in the streets and newspapers of his day as “the Angel Gabriel”—deserves to be remembered...
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...
Tony Martin was a Trinidad and Tobago-born historian, author, educator, publisher, and Pan-African activist whose scholarly life was...
Samuel “Sam” Sharpe was one of the principal leaders of the Baptist War, the largest uprising of captive...
On August 17, 1795, the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao witnessed one of the most significant and far-reaching uprisings in its history, now remembered as Tula’s Revolt. Tula, a visionary leader,...
On May 28, 1998, twelve-year-old Jody-Anne Maxwell made history at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C....
William Davidson (c.1781–1 May 1820) was a Jamaican‑born, Black British radical in early nineteenth-century Britain. His execution for...
Hubert Henry Harrison (1883–1927) was a towering Caribbean-born intellectual, agitator, and educator whose life forces us to rethink the origins of Harlem radicalism, the New Negro movement, and Black internationalist thought...
Jacques Stephen Alexis (1922–1961) was a Haitian novelist, neurologist, and Marxist political activist whose life and work came...
Billy Strachan was a World War 2 RAF hero and civil rights pioneer. A campaigner against colonialism, he...
E. R. Braithwaite was a Guyanese-American writer, teacher, and diplomat, best known for his semi-autobiographical book To Sir, With Love (1959) which was adapted into a successful film in 1967 starring Sidney...
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…
