“We’ve survived colonization and enslavement and when you consider what we have gone through, the fact that we...
Abram Petrovich Hannibal, also known as Gannibal or Ganibal, was kidnapped from his parents in Africa and brought...
Angelo Soliman who achieved considerable fame as a “Princely Moor” in eighteenth-century Vienna, is historically recognized by some as the “First Moorish Freemason.” Soliman was born in Africa, around 1721. His...
Anna Albertine Olga Brown was a famous late 19th‑century circus performer known as Miss La La. Lala was...
Zamor was a French revolutionary of Bengali origin, who as a boy of eleven, was sold into slavery...
“Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is today all but forgotten in the country of his birth. The works of this talented composer are now out of fashion; and little of his music is available...
According to historian Ivan Van Sertima, drawing on the 17th‑century writer al‑Makkari and early Spanish chroniclers, an African...
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…
