Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
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...
Alfred Fagon was a Jamaican-born playwright, poet and actor. He was one of the most notable Black British playwrights of the 1970s and 1980s. Fagon served in the British Army before...
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...
James Weldon Johnson was an African-American writer, who distinguished himself in civil rights, diplomacy, education, journalism, law, literature, and music. In 1900, Johnson wrote the song “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,”...
“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,...
Mary Turner was a young African-American woman lynched on May 19, 1918, near Valdosta, Georgia, in a horrific manner. She was eight months pregnant at the time of her murder. Her...
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...
Thomas Fuller was an Afrikan man in captivity in North America, who became known as the Virginia Calculator. Although illiterate, he was able to perform the most difficult mathematical calculations in...
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…
