Walter Theodore “Sonny” Rollins (September 7, 1930–May 25, 2026) was an American tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. Over...
Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford was a West African barrister, author, and political leader who dedicated his life to...
“Kwame Nkrumah was Africa’s magnificent dreamer. He dared to believe that African people could be masters of their destiny… He was the best example of dynamic African leadership to emerge in...
LLearie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, Kt., was a West Indian cricket legend, barrister, author, broadcast journalist, and political...
David Downey, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia is an all-around athlete in softball, basketball, volleyball, baseball, track, and...
George Wells Parker was an African-American political activist and historian who co-founded the Hamitic League of the World, to promote African pride and black economic progress. He was well known among...
Andrew “Rube” Foster was one of the greatest players in the history of baseball, and was elected to...
Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” one of...
Alberta Christine Williams King was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s mother and the wife of Martin Luther King, Sr. Martin Luther King, Jr. often spoke of the positive influence his mother had...
Jesse Owens achieved what no Olympian before him had accomplished, and was recognized in his lifetime as “perhaps...
John Ware lived in what we may consider the golden age of the ranching frontier and achieved heroic...
Euphemia Lofton Haynes was an American mathematician and educator. In 1943, she became the first African-American woman to gain a PhD in mathematics. Euphemia Lofton Haynes was born Martha Euphemia Lofton...
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…
