Audrey Jeffers: Pioneer of Social Welfare in Trinidad and Tobago
September 6, 2026
“Her fight is preserved in Brazilian history, and her warrior personality is, to this day, an example for...
Three African‑Caribbean women on St. Croix stood at the forefront of a mass insurrection against the Danish government,...
Charity Still—born Sidney Steel—was the mother of abolitionist William Still and a foundational figure in the Still family’s history of resistance. She liberated herself from the Maafa twice. During her first...
“Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is...
“Yaa AsantewaaThe woman who fights before cannonsYou have accomplished great thingsYou have done well” On 17 October 1921,...
“Our purpose in life is to leave a legacy for our children and our children’s children. For this reason, we must correct history that at present denies our humanity and self-respect.”...
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and...
“There was a militarily gifted and exceptionally daring woman in the front line: Carlota, of Lucumbi origin…” In...
“One day I know the struggle will change. There’s got to be a change—not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the...
Sanité Bélair (born Suzanne Bélair), was a Haitian freedom fighter and revolutionary during the Haitian Revolution. Sanité, whom...
Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend an all Euro-American public elementary school in the American...
Viola Desmond was a Black Nova Scotian businesswoman and civil-rights pioneer whose 1946 challenge to segregation at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow became one of the most significant early legal...
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…
