Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
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[dropcap size=small]N[/dropcap]ehanda Charwe Nyakasikana was a female spiritualist leader from Mashonaland and a key leader in the First Chimurenga uprisings against colonial settlers 1896-1897. She was considered to be the female...
Solitude was born into the Maafa in Guadeloupe around 1772, the daughter of an African woman who was raped...
“…the contact of her presence…was irresistible….” Plutarch on Cleopatra. “More nonsense has been written about Cleopatra than about...
Dorothy Irene Height was an African-American activist, administrator and educator, who dedicated her life to seeing racial and women’s equality in the United States. She was a leader in addressing the...
Every day, at the Noir de Rio Museum, hundreds of people venerate an image of a Black woman...
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…
