Audrey Jeffers: Pioneer of Social Welfare in Trinidad and Tobago
September 6, 2026
Amílcar Cabral (1924–1973) was one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and original Pan-Africanist thinkers. An agronomist, writer,...
No Black history library or book collection is complete without a work by Dr. Na’im Akbar. In addition...
Miriam Makeba, lovingly known as Mama Africa, was a South African singer, freedom fighter, and cultural worker who turned her entire life into a testimony against apartheid and colonialism. Born Zenzile Miriam Makeba...
The following quotes are adapted from The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson, widely recognised as...
“Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, ’cause they knew death was better...
H. Rap Brown—later known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin—was one of the most forceful voices of the Black Power era. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1967, he argued...
Huey P. Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was an African American activist best known for...
“No spring changes the desert. The desert remains; the spring runs dry. Not one spring, not a thousand...
Robert Nesta Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and musician. Marley served as a world ambassador for reggae music and sold more than 20...
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) was a trailblazing African-American writer, anthropologist, and folklorist of the Harlem Renaissance. She is...
Fred Hampton was an African-American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party...
Kwame Ture was a prominent Pan-African revolutionary who served as the Honorary Prime Minister of the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party. Born in Trinidad, Ture moved to the United...
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…
