“I write to celebrate life.” “I would like to be seen as a woman whose roots go back...
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 Black Prince. Philippa of Hainault was born on June 24, 1313, the daughter...
The Bronze Woman, which was unveiled on October 8, 2008, in the south London town of Stockwell at...
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 manner. She was eight months pregnant at the time of her murder. Her...
Redoshi was born in modern-day Benin and abducted from her home aged 12 before being sold as a...
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, finding gold dust valued (back then) at $5000? May is believed to be...
“Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is...
“Ayiti has been blessed to be a country where we have created all the essentials of the identity...
Jackie Ormes (August 1, 1911 – December 26, 1985) was born Zelda Jackson in a small town outside Pittsburgh. She was a self-taught artist who had several successful comic strips and...
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…
