Elijah McCoy was a pioneering Black Canadian‑American mechanical engineer and inventor whose automatic lubricator transformed steam power and...
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and...
Samuel Green was an African-American self-emancipated anti-slavery activist who was jailed in 1857 for possessing a copy of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, after being suspected...
Lewis Hayden was an African-American leader who escaped with his family from the Maafa (slavery) in Kentucky to...
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]ary Ellen Pleasant was a 19th-century African American entrepreneur who used her fortune to further the abolitionist...
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…
