Walter Theodore “Sonny” Rollins (September 7, 1930–May 25, 2026) was an American tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. Over...
Miles Davis (1926–1991) was an American trumpeter, composer, and bandleader widely regarded as one of the most influential...
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson (1878–1949) was a pioneering African American tap dancer, actor, and singer who rose to become the most renowned and highest-paid Black entertainer in the United States during the...
Joseph Ignace of Guadeloupe (c. 1769–1802) was a renowned freedom fighter and French Republican military officer, celebrated as...
Sun Ra was a visionary American jazz composer and bandleader celebrated for his pioneering role in the Afrofuturism...
David Harold Blackwell (April 24, 1919 – July 8, 2010) was an American statistician and mathematician whose groundbreaking work in game theory, probability theory, information theory, and statistics shaped the foundations...
Regina M. Anderson was an African-American librarian, playwright, patron of the arts, and organizer whose quiet labor helped...
“I am Toussaint Louverture; perhaps my name has made itself known to you. I have undertaken vengeance. I...
Marie Selika Williams (c. 1849/1850–20 May 1937) was one of the most accomplished and pathbreaking African American classical singers of the nineteenth century. Born Mary S. Price Holloway in Natchez, Mississippi,...
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry lived only 34 years, yet she reshaped American theater, sharpened the intellectual edge of the...
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1761, following her marriage to King George...
Queen Charlotte’s racial identity remains one of the most intensely debated topics in modern British royal historiography. The controversy raises profound questions about the construction of race, the politics of historical...
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…
