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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...

“A normal black child, having grown up in a normal family, will become abnormal at the slightest contact with the [whyte] world.” Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, originally from Martinique....

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...

Jean-Pierre Boyer (born 1776—died July 9, 1850) was one of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution and President of Haiti from 1818 to 1843. He reunited the north and south of...

Although Peter Jackson never fought for the heavyweight crown, he is generally regarded as an all-time great. Jackson...