Peter Tosh was the most militant member of the world’s greatest reggae band, The Wailers (1963–1974). Along with...
Sanité Bélair (born Suzanne Bélair), was a Haitian freedom fighter and revolutionary during the Haitian Revolution. Sanité, whom...
LLearie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, Kt., was a West Indian cricket legend, barrister, author, broadcast journalist, and political activist. He served as Trinidad’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and became...
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, activist, radio and television personality and...
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. (ONH) was a Jamaican-born Black nationalist who created a ‘Back to Africa’ movement in...
Ronald Moody (12 August 1900–6 February 1984) was a Jamaican-born modernist sculptor, writer, broadcaster, and trained dentist. Although he worked in bronze, concrete, resin, fiberglass, copper, and other materials, he was...
Marie Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur (1758-August 8, 1858 ), was the Empress of Haiti (1804-1806) as the spouse...
Perhaps best known as the widow of reggae legend Bob Marley and often called the “Queen of Reggae,”...
Marie-Madeleine Lachenais, known as Joute, was called “the President of two Presidents” and is regarded as the most politically powerful woman in the history of Haiti before the introduction of women’s...
“A normal black child, having grown up in a normal family, will become abnormal at the slightest...
William T. Shorey was a late 19th-century Caribbean-American whaling ship captain affectionately known to his crew as the...
Herbert Henry “Herb” McKenley OM was a Jamaican sprinter and the only athlete to reach an Olympic track final in all three of the classic sprint events: 100, 200, and 400...
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…
