Pamela Evans Harris, also known as Trojan Pam, was a Chicago writer, independent publisher, and skilled technician whose...
“Let us all pass on the knowledge,planting trees in the shade of whichwe ourselves may never sit.” Margaret...
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, television producer, businessman, and environmental justice campaigner whose defense of the Ogoni people brought the Niger Delta’s destruction to international attention. Across fiction, journalism, public service...
Born during the Maafa around 1775 or 1776, Gabriel became a skilled blacksmith, a literate artisan, and a...
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was a South African writer, journalist, translator, and political organizer whose work joined the defense...
Henri Christophe (c. 1767–1820) was one of the commanding figures of the Haitian Revolution and the founder of the northern Kingdom of Haiti. Soldier, general, statesman, and monarch, he helped defeat...
Millie Small was one of the first Jamaican performers to become a global pop star. With the joyous,...
Val Irvine McCalla was a Jamaican-born British accountant and media entrepreneur who founded The Voice, transforming the landscape...
John Brown Russwurm (1799–1851) was one of the most consequential and debated Black intellectuals of the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. A Jamaican-born scholar, educator, journalist, abolitionist, emigrant, and colonial governor, he crossed...
The arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury on 22 June 1948 stands as a defining moment in...
Mme. Abomah—also billed as the “Amazon Giantess” and the “African Giantess”—was an African American performer who became an...
Paul Bogle is one of Jamaica’s National Heroes and a central figure in the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865, an uprising and subsequent colonial repression that profoundly altered Jamaica’s political order....
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…
