Ntozake Shange centered Black women’s lives in an expansive literary world. A poet, playwright, novelist, and essayist, she...
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 of Black British journalism. Quietly determined and commercially astute, he built a newspaper...
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the United States Congress and the first...
Celia Cruz was a Black Cuban and Cuban American singer whose extraordinary career made her one of the...
Dizzy Gillespie was one of jazz history’s most influential trumpeters, composers, and bandleaders. In the 1940s, he and Charlie Parker became central figures in bebop’s development, helping reshape the language of...
Peter Tosh was a founding member of the Wailers and one of reggae’s most uncompromising voices. Alongside Bob...
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a Black Canadian-American educator, abolitionist, writer, newspaper publisher, army recruiter, suffragist, and legal...
Powhatan Beaty was a Black Union soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, actor, playwright, and civic figure whose life linked the Civil War struggle for emancipation with the cultural and political life...
“If one can, anyone can, all you gotta do is try” Faith Ringgold was an American painter, writer,...
“It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land...
“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...
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…
