Johnson Gideon Beharry is Britain’s highest decorated serving soldier. He became a national hero after risking his life...
Perhaps best known as the widow of reggae legend Bob Marley and often called the “Queen of Reggae,”...
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14, after reportedly flirting with a whyte woman. His murder on August 28, 1955, galvanized...
Adele Addison is an African-American lyric soprano who was an acclaimed figure in the classical music world during...
Frank Alvin Silvera was one of the 20th century’s greatest character actors. Silvera was known as “the man...
Alexandre Dumas is a celebrated French author best known for his historical adventure novels, including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Dumas published works comprise 300 volumes and...
Ira Aldridge was a 19th-century African-American actor who became a renowned actor of Shakespearean tragedy on the European...
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed the most effective treatment of leprosy until the...
Louis Tompkins Wright was an African American surgeon, war hero and civil rights activist. Wright was “the first Black physician to be appointed to the staff of a New York municipal...
“Look to Africa when a Black king shall be crowned, for the day of deliverance is near.” Emperor...
Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, composer, and poet,...
Nicolás Guillén Landrián (1938 in Camagüey, Cuba – July 23, 2003 in Miami, Florida) was a Cuban experimental filmmaker and painter. He was the nephew of Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén. Landrián...
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…
