Solitude was born into the Maafa in Guadeloupe around 1772, the daughter of an African woman who was raped...
“…the contact of her presence…was irresistible….” Plutarch on Cleopatra. “More nonsense has been written about Cleopatra than about...
[dropcap size=small]G[/dropcap]eneral Thomas Alexandre Dumas, called “Alexandre the Greatest” was the highest-ranking Black man of all time in a continental European army. He was the first Black man in the French...
Dorothy Irene Height was an African-American activist, administrator and educator, who dedicated her life to seeing racial and...
Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729 – 14 December 1780) is the first known Black Briton to vote in a...
Madison Washington escaped Euro-American system of enslavement to freedom in Canada. However, Washington could not continue to live free in Canada while the woman he loved remained in bondage. He went...
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…
