My friendthey don’t careif you’re an individualista leftist a rightista shithead or a snakeThey will try to exploit...
Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an African-American poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. Although she never published her own...
“Marie Couvent was the first [Black] woman to set the example of an enlightened charity, and that for a long time she was the only woman to enjoy this distinction is...
“I just had a God-given talent for making people beautiful…” Zelda Wynn Valdes was a fashion legend who...
“I write to celebrate life.” “I would like to be seen as a woman whose roots go back...
In 1999, Thomas Peters, one of the founding fathers of Sierra Leone, was honoured by the Sierra Leone government with inclusion in a movie celebrating the country’s national heroes. A statue...
Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, “even if you are not...
Mathias de Sousa, possibly of African and Portuguese ancestry, is considered the first known Portuguese immigrant on record...
James Weldon Johnson was an African-American writer, who distinguished himself in civil rights, diplomacy, education, journalism, law, literature, and music. In 1900, Johnson wrote the song “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,”...
Mary Turner was a young African-American woman lynched on May 19, 1918, near Valdosta, Georgia, in a horrific...
Redoshi was born in modern-day Benin and abducted from her home aged 12 before being sold as a...
John McHenry Boatwright was one of the leading baritone-bass opera singers in America. Boatwright made numerous appearances as a recitalist, and a soloist with orchestras and on the opera stage. He...
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…
