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...
“Walter Rodney was Most Rare. He is an exemplar. He belongs in that rare category of Marcus Garvey,...
Henry Sylvester Williams was a Trinidadian lawyer, writer, and activist widely regarded as a founding figure in organized...
The first Black athlete to compete at the Olympics was Haitian-born French rugby player Constantin Henriquez de Zubiera, who competed for France in 1900. As the French team won the rugby...
On the night of 2nd March 1795, Julien Fédon, launched a revolution against British rule in Grenada, to...
Paul Bogle is one of Jamaica’s National Heroes and a central figure in the Morant Bay Rebellion of...
Celia Cruz was a Black Cuban and Cuban American singer whose extraordinary career made her one of the most celebrated and influential vocalists in Cuban and Latin music. Revered as La...
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…
