Mahalia Jackson was gospel music’s first superstar and is considered the greatest gospel singer ever to live. She...
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, the mother of musical legend, Fela Kuti, was also a legend, herself. Known as the Lioness...
Paul Bogle is one of Jamaica’s National Heroes, and leader of the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion, an event that transformed the political system of the island. Bogle’s face appeared on the...
James Alan Bland was an African-American musician and composer who was known as The World’s Greatest Minstrel Man....
Bobby Seale is an African-American political activist and co-founder and national chairman of the Black Panther Party. The...
George Junius Stinney, Jr. was the youngest person to be executed in the US in the 20th century when he was sent to the electric chair in 1944. He was fourteen...
Juanita Moore was an Oscar-nominated African-American actress, best known for her starring role in the remake of Imitation...
Peter Tosh was the most militant member of the world’s greatest reggae band, The Wailers (1963–1974). Along with...
Fanny Jackson Coppin was an African-American educator and missionary and a lifelong advocate for female higher education. Fanny Jackson was born enslaved in Washington D.C. on October 15, 1837. She gained...
Sylvester Magee was an African American who may have been the last living former enslaved American. Although Magee’s...
Dick Gregory is the renowned comedian, actor, and civil rights activist (born October 12, 1932) who uses his...
Mary Ann Shadd, was the first Black woman in North America to publish a newspaper and the first woman to study for a law degree at an American university. Mary Ann...
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…
