“My name is Assata (“she who struggles”) Olugbala ( “for the people” ) Shakur (“the thankful one”), and...
Mari Evans was an African-American poet, writer, and dramatist, whose work has appeared in more than one hundred...
In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker became the first woman bank president in the United States when she founded the Saint Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia. A daughter of a...
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones was one of the first two African American students to enroll at the University...
“History is the struggle and record of humans in the process of humanizing the world, i.e., shaping it...
Gideon Edward Smith sometimes referred to as G. E. Smith, was an American football player and coach. Smith was the first African-American varsity athlete in any sport at at Michigan Agricultural...
Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Babatunde Soyinka, born 13 July 1934, is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was the...
William T. Shorey was a late 19th-century Caribbean-American whaling ship captain affectionately known to his crew as the...
“A free black mind is a concealed weapon!” Samuel Greenlee, Jr. was an African-American novelist, poet, screenwriter, journalist, teacher, and talk show host, best known for his novel The Spook Who...
[dropcap size=small]E[/dropcap]arl Lovelace is an award-winning Trinidadian novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer. Lovelace is special among...
Millie McCoy and Christine McCoy (July 11, 1851 – October 8, 1912) were African American conjoined twins who...
Herbert Henry “Herb” McKenley OM was a Jamaican sprinter and the only athlete to reach an Olympic track final in all three of the classic sprint events: 100, 200, and 400...
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…
