“It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land...
Sanité Bélair (born Suzanne Bélair), was a Haitian freedom fighter and revolutionary during the Haitian Revolution. Sanité, whom...
Nat Turner (c. 2 October 1800–11 November 1831) was a Black preacher, religious visionary, and revolutionary whose leadership of the 1831 Southampton uprising in Virginia made him one of the most...
Alonso de Illescas was an Afro‑Ecuadorian leader and an icon for people of African descent in Ecuador. A...
David Walker was a Black abolitionist, writer, and political activist whose uncompromising attack on the Maafa made him...
Horace King was an African American architect, engineer, master carpenter, and bridge builder. He became one of the most respected bridge builders in the nineteenth-century Deep South, constructing bridges and other...
“It takes more than a horrifying transatlantic voyage chained in the filthy hold of a slave ship to...
“Revolution moves in a mysterious way, its wonders to perform.” –C.L.R. James “It was the first time in...
“As the black spot passed over the sun, so shall the Blacks pass over the earth.” – Nat Turner On the night of 21 August 1831, seven Black men gathered near...
Bill Richmond was an American-born, British-based bare-knuckle boxer who rose from captivity to become one of Britain’s earliest...
Louis Delgrès was an African-Caribbean freedom fighter who led the 1802 resistance in Guadeloupe against Napoleon Bonaparte’s attempt...
Anthony Burns (31 May 1834 – 17 July 1862) was a central figure in one of the most famous freedom‑seeker cases of the Maafa in the United States. He was born...
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…
