Mary Turner was a young African-American woman lynched on May 19, 1918, near Valdosta, Georgia, in a horrific...
Redoshi was born in modern-day Benin and abducted from her home aged 12 before being sold as a...
John McHenry Boatwright was one of the leading baritone-bass opera singers in America. Boatwright made numerous appearances as a recitalist, and a soloist with orchestras and on the opera stage. He...
Thomas Fuller was an Afrikan man in captivity in North America, who became known as the Virginia Calculator....
“We must restore the historical consciousness of the African people. The reawakened Africans would then create a new...
Charity Still—born Sidney Steel—was the mother of abolitionist William Still and a foundational figure in the Still family’s history of resistance. She liberated herself from the Maafa twice. During her first...
“A people who don’t make provision for their own sick and suffering are not worthy of civilization.” –Daniel...
Ona Judge, known as Oney Judge Staines after marriage, was a bondwoman who worked on George Washington’s Mount...
Born in Africa as Oluale Kossula, he died in America in 1935 as Cudjoe Lewis. Ouale Kossula is widely recognised as the last known person born in Africa to have been...
“In such a wild country as Africa one does not go far without adventures. The traveler necessarily sees...
Isaac Burns Murphy was an African-American Hall of Fame jockey, who is considered one of the greatest riders...
Walter Tull was the British Army’s first ever Black officer. Tull, who was a professional footballer at the outbreak of the first world war, gained his commission as a second lieutenant...
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…
