William T. Shorey was a late 19th-century Caribbean-American whaling ship captain affectionately known to his crew as the...
“A free black mind is a concealed weapon!” Samuel Greenlee, Jr. was an African-American novelist, poet, screenwriter, journalist,...
[dropcap size=small]E[/dropcap]arl Lovelace is an award-winning Trinidadian novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer. Lovelace is special among Caribbean writers because he is a people’s author, having remained and built a...
Millie McCoy and Christine McCoy (July 11, 1851 – October 8, 1912) were African American conjoined twins who...
Herbert Henry “Herb” McKenley OM was a Jamaican sprinter and the only athlete to reach an Olympic track...
Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista was a Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. A leading figure of “poesia égra” (“black poetry”), and an influential campaigner for social justice, he is best...
Rafael Cepeda Atiles is known as “The Patriarch of the Bomba and Plena.” He was the patriarch of...
Arthur Ashe is the first African American, and is still the only, African-American male player to win the...
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was an American educator, known as “The First Lady of The Struggle” because of her commitment to giving African Americans a better life. Bethune was appointed a...
June Jordan, the Caribbean-American poet, activist, journalist, essayist, and teacher, was known for her fierce commitment to human...
William Harrison “Bones” Dillard was an African‑American Olympic track and field athlete. Dillard was the finest hurdler of...
Margaret Walker was an African American poet and writer. She began her literary career in the 1930s and emerged as a “literary mother” to writers like Alice Walker and Sonia Sanchez....
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…
