Audrey Jeffers: Pioneer of Social Welfare in Trinidad and Tobago
September 6, 2026
On 19 October 1840, the American schooner Hermosa struck a reef near Spanish Key in the Abaco Islands....
“Her fight is preserved in Brazilian history, and her warrior personality is, to this day, an example for...
“Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is as active as your own, whose range of feelings is as vast as...
Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was Brazil’s largest and most enduring freedom polity and one of the most...
On 14 April 1816, the largest Maafa uprising in Barbados’s history broke out. Now known as Bussa’s Rebellion,...
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” Harriet Tubman...
Samuel Green was an African American self-emancipated man, Methodist exhorter, farmer, and Underground Railroad agent. In 1857, amid...
Frederick Douglass was born Fredrick Bailey in February 1818 on Holmes Hill farm, near the town of Easton...
“There was a militarily gifted and exceptionally daring woman in the front line: Carlota, of Lucumbi origin…” In 1843, Carlota Lucumí, an enslaved African woman, led a major Maafa/Atlantic slavery uprising...
“Revolution moves in a mysterious way, its wonders to perform.” –C.L.R. James “It was the first time in...
Olaudah Equiano was born an Igbo around 1745, in what is now eastern Nigeria. He came from a prosperous home; his father was a local elder. Kidnapped with his sister at...
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…
