Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
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Paul Laurence Dunbar was a pioneering African American author who earned international recognition in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Renowned for his literary versatility, Dunbar produced a remarkable body...
“You came to our country — you have driven us from our haunts, and disturbed us in our...
Lucien Victor Alexis Sr. was a New Orleans-born educator, scientist, military officer, entrepreneur, and civic leader whose life...
James Van Der Zee was a renowned African American photographer and a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, celebrated for his evocative portraiture. Over his long career, he combined technical mastery...
Tupac Amaru Shakur, born Lesane Parish Crooks on June 16, 1971, was an American rapper, actor, poet, and...
“Thirty years ago, the MOBO Organisation was born out of a desire to create space where there was...
Jacques Jean-Baptiste Roumain was born on 4 June 1907 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, into an old and affluent family whose social standing placed him near the center of the country’s political and...
Pemulwuy (c.1750–1802) was a Bidjigal warrior of the Dharug Nation and and one of the most formidable resistance...
Lunsford Lane (1803–1879) was a remarkable nineteenth-century entrepreneur, abolitionist, and author who rose from captivity as a house...
Maurice Rupert Bishop (1944–1983) was a charismatic revolutionary who served as Prime Minister of Grenada from 1979 until his assassination in 1983. After overthrowing the oppressive Eric Gairy regime, Bishop launched...
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…
