Audrey Jeffers: Pioneer of Social Welfare in Trinidad and Tobago
September 6, 2026
“Study History, Erase The Mystery.” Professor James Small has devoted his life to Pan-Africanism, bringing together historical scholarship,...
Tony Martin was a Trinidad and Tobago-born historian, author, educator, publisher, and Pan-African activist whose scholarly life was...
Lucien Victor Alexis Sr. was a New Orleans-born educator, scientist, military officer, entrepreneur, and civic leader whose life embodied disciplined achievement, intellectual ambition, and community service. Born on July 8, 1887,...
No Black history library or book collection is complete without a work by Dr. Na’im Akbar. In addition...
“We’ve survived colonization and enslavement and when you consider what we have gone through, the fact that we...
“I had to work against all the odds to succeed, but succeed I did.” Dr. John Henrik Clarke was a Pan-Africanist scholar and historian and a pioneer in the creation of...
“Don’t let our history die.” ~Edward Scobie Dr. Edward Vivian Scobie, author of Black Britannia: The History of Blacks...
“We were here at least 56,000 years ago; Africans came over. The Mongolians don’t come until 2,600 BC...
Runoko Rashidi was an African American historian, anthropologist and public lecturer, and one of the world’s leading authorities on the African presence in Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. For more...
“Africa will furnish a development of civilization which the world has never yet witnessed. Its great peculiarity will...
“We’re universal entities. The way our DNA is coded, there’s nothing we don’t know. It’s a matter of...
Dr. Umar Johnson is considered a national expert on learning disabilities and their effect on Black children, as well as being an expert on helping schools and parents modify challenging behaviours...
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…
