In the spring of 1963, Black Bristolians and their allies launched a four‑month bus boycott that would change...
George Lester Jackson was an African-American political revolutionary, prisoners’ rights activist, author, a member of the Black Panther...
“Our purpose in life is to leave a legacy for our children and our children’s children. For this reason, we must correct history that at present denies our humanity and self-respect.”...
“They came with horses. They came with nightsticks. And I was standing, and people were running… I did...
Activist Jimmie Lee Jackson is remembered for his tragic death at 26 years old at the hands of...
Fredrick L. McGhee was a Black civil rights activist and one of America’s first African American lawyers. McGhee was born on October 28, 1861, in Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Abraham McGhee and...
On August 28, 1963, over 250,000 demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., for the historic March on Washington for...
“We desire to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. But in the past we’ve had no straps, and...
Viola Desmond was a Black Nova Scotian businesswoman and civil-rights pioneer whose 1946 challenge to segregation at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow became one of the most significant early legal...
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…
