George Dixon also known as “Little Chocolate,” was a Black Canadian professional boxer. He was the first black...
“This story is not about what happened to him, it’s everything to do with how he chose to...
Johnson Gideon Beharry is Britain’s highest decorated serving soldier. He became a national hero after risking his life to save a group of wounded soldiers in Iraq. On 18 March 2005,...
Perhaps best known as the widow of reggae legend Bob Marley and often called the “Queen of Reggae,”...
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14, after...
Adele Addison is an African-American lyric soprano who was an acclaimed figure in the classical music world during the 1950s and 1960s. She is best remembered today as the singing voice...
Frank Alvin Silvera was one of the 20th century’s greatest character actors. Silvera was known as “the man...
Alexandre Dumas is a celebrated French author best known for his historical adventure novels, including The Three Musketeers...
Ira Aldridge was a 19th-century African-American actor who became a renowned actor of Shakespearean tragedy on the European stage. He is the only actor of African-American descent among the 33 actors...
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed the most effective treatment of leprosy until the...
Louis Tompkins Wright was an African American surgeon, war hero and civil rights activist. Wright was “the first...
“Look to Africa when a Black king shall be crowned, for the day of deliverance is near.” Emperor Haile Selassie I was Ethiopia’s 225th and last emperor. Emperor Haile Selassie I...
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…
