Gordon Parks (born Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks) was born on November 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kansas....
“It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship...
“The legend of the Palmares quilombo and its greatest leader, Zumbi, are central to the history and ongoing struggle of Brazilians who recognize their Afrikan ancestry. Across Brazil there are, or...
Cathay Williams (1844 – 1892), a.k.a. William Cathay, was the first known African American woman to enlist in...
Sarah Jane Woodson Early was an African American educator, author and temperance activist. For 30 years Early was...
“There was a militarily gifted and exceptionally daring woman in the front line: Carlota, of Lucumbi origin…” In 1843, Carlota Lucumí, an enslaved African woman, led a major Maafa/Atlantic slavery uprising...
Fredrick L. McGhee was a Black civil rights activist and one of America’s first African American lawyers. McGhee...
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, the mother of musical legend, Fela Kuti, was also a legend, herself. Known as the Lioness...
Paul Bogle is one of Jamaica’s National Heroes, and leader of the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion, an event that transformed the political system of the island. Bogle’s face appeared on the...
Mary Ann Shadd, was the first Black woman in North America to publish a newspaper and the first...
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Powhatan Beaty served as a First Sergeant in the Union Army...
“It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage.” William Still was an African American abolitionist, Underground Railroad conductor, writer,...
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…
