Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Sarah Forbes Bonetta—born Omoba Aina, or Ina, around 1843—lived a life shaped by extraordinary rupture, displacement, intellect, and...
“I have strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.” Mary Edmonia Lewis, known in childhood...
“I write to tell the truth about the Black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a Black woman’s view of the world… The most fundamental truth to...
Audrey Layne Jeffers was one of the most consequential social reformers of twentieth-century Trinidad and Tobago: a pioneering...
“Thirty years ago, the MOBO Organisation was born out of a desire to create space where there was...
On May 28, 1998, twelve-year-old Jody-Anne Maxwell made history at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. She became the first Jamaican, the first Black person, and—as contemporaries described her—the...
Regina M. Anderson was an African-American librarian, playwright, patron of the arts, and organizer whose quiet labor helped...
Marie Selika Williams (c. 1849/1850–20 May 1937) was one of the most accomplished and pathbreaking African American classical...
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry lived only 34 years, yet she reshaped American theater, sharpened the intellectual edge of the Civil Rights Movement, and left behind a body of work that continues to...
Catherine Flon holds a revered place in Haitian history as the woman most closely associated with the creation...
“Whatever path we seem to take, it always has one end: a racist bullet. A racist bullet murdered...
Jayne Cortez (born Sallie Jayne Richardson) was a visionary African American poet, performer, and cultural activist whose fierce, music‑driven poetics made her a defining voice of the Black Arts Movement and...
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…
