Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
“Marie Couvent was the first [Black] woman to set the example of an enlightened charity, and that for...
“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 to Africa, who tried to honor being human…” Lucille Clifton was a distinguished...
Olive Elaine Morris was a Black-British community leader and political activist, who campaigned for racial, gender and social equality,...
According to 100 Great Black Britons website, Queen Phillipa is England’s first Black queen and mother of the...
The Bronze Woman, which was unveiled on October 8, 2008, in the south London town of Stockwell at the Stockwell Memorial Gardens, is a 10-foot bronze sculpture of a Black woman...
Three African‑Caribbean women on St. Croix stood at the forefront of a mass insurrection against the Danish government,...
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 child bride. She was renamed Sally Smith in the United States after arriving...
Charity Still—born Sidney Steel—was the mother of abolitionist William Still and a foundational figure in the Still family’s...
Did you know that May B. Mason staked a gold claim in the Yukon mining territory in 1898,...
“Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is as active as your own, whose range of feelings is as vast as...
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…
