Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
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[dropcap size=small]B[/dropcap]ooker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American leader and educator. Washington came up from a background of poverty to become the most influential Black educator of the late 19th and early...
Gordon was an enslaved African-American who became an iconic figure during the Civil War, in exposing the brutality...
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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…
