“Marie Couvent was the first [Black] woman to set the example of an enlightened charity, and that for...
“I just had a God-given talent for making people beautiful…” Zelda Wynn Valdes was a fashion legend who...
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...
“I write to celebrate life.” “I would like to be seen as a woman whose roots go back...
Olive Elaine Morris was a Black-British community leader and political activist, who campaigned for racial, gender and social equality,...
In 1999, Thomas Peters, one of the founding fathers of Sierra Leone, was honoured by the Sierra Leone government with inclusion in a movie celebrating the country’s national heroes. A statue...
Alfred Fagon was a Jamaican-born playwright, poet and actor. He was one of the most notable Black British...
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an African-American athlete who in 1960 became the first American woman to win three...
Mathias de Sousa, possibly of African and Portuguese ancestry, is considered the first known Portuguese immigrant on record to have settled in North America. He is also recognized as the first...
James Weldon Johnson was an African-American writer, who distinguished himself in civil rights, diplomacy, education, journalism, law, literature,...
“There can be but one result for the Cubans. That is victory…” Lieutenant General José Antonio de la...
“Walter Rodney was Most Rare. He is an exemplar. He belongs in that rare category of Marcus Garvey, CLR James, George Padmore and Frantz Fanon.” Walter Rodney was a Guyanese historian and...
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…
