Chester Himes was an African American writer best known for his series of Harlem detective novels. In 1958...
Johnson Gideon Beharry is Britain’s highest decorated serving soldier. He became a national hero after risking his life...
Perhaps best known as the widow of reggae legend Bob Marley and often called the “Queen of Reggae,” Rita Marley has spent time and energy as the guardian of her late...
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14, after...
Adele Addison is an African-American lyric soprano who was an acclaimed figure in the classical music world during...
Frank Alvin Silvera was one of the 20th century’s greatest character actors. Silvera was known as “the man with a thousand faces” because of his ability to play a wide array...
Alexandre Dumas is a celebrated French author best known for his historical adventure novels, including The Three Musketeers...
Ira Aldridge was a 19th-century African-American actor who became a renowned actor of Shakespearean tragedy on the European...
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed the most effective treatment of leprosy until the 1940s and died at the very young age of 24. She was also...
Louis Tompkins Wright was an African American surgeon, war hero and civil rights activist. Wright was “the first...
“Look to Africa when a Black king shall be crowned, for the day of deliverance is near.” Emperor...
Walter Moses Burton holds the distinction of being the first Black elected sheriff in the United States. Burton was also a State Senator in Texas. Burton was born into the Maafa...
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…
