Audrey Jeffers: Pioneer of Social Welfare in Trinidad and Tobago
September 6, 2026
“Yaa AsantewaaThe woman who fights before cannonsYou have accomplished great thingsYou have done well” On 17 October 1921,...
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the United States Congress and the first...
“Our purpose in life is to leave a legacy for our children and our children’s children. For this reason, we must correct history that at present denies our humanity and self-respect.”...
“Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it,...
In 1734, Marie-Joseph Angélique was accused of setting a fire that destroyed the city’s merchants’ quarter in Montreal....
Tom Feelings (May 19, 1933 – August 25, 2003) was a well-known artist, cartoonist, children’s book illustrator, author, teacher, and activist. From the dawn of the U.S. civil rights era, when...
Oliver Lewis made history on May 17, 1875, when he rode Aristides to victory in the inaugural Kentucky...
Matilda Arabella Evans was the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in South Carolina. She became...
In 1628, the first Black person known to have lived in Canada was a Malagasy native. He was kidnapped and sold between the ages of 6 and 9 by the British...
In 1879, Mary Eliza Mahoney became the first Black graduate nurse in the United States. Mary Eliza Mahoney...
Sugar Ray Robinson is considered one of the greatest boxers of all time. Robinson held the world welterweight...
Vernon Napoleon Johns (April 22, 1892 – June 11, 1965) was a brilliant, uncompromising Baptist preacher whose life helped lay the moral and intellectual groundwork for the modern civil rights movement....
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…
