Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
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Audrey Layne Jeffers was one of the most consequential social reformers of twentieth-century Trinidad and Tobago: a pioneering...
On May 28, 1998, twelve-year-old Jody-Anne Maxwell made history at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C....
David Harold Blackwell (April 24, 1919 – July 8, 2010) was an American statistician and mathematician whose groundbreaking work in game theory, probability theory, information theory, and statistics shaped the foundations...
Caesar was an African healer living under forced servitude in early South Carolina whose knowledge of botanical medicine...
Joseph Antonio Emidy (c. 1775–23 April 1835) was an Afro‑Portuguese violinist, composer, and teacher who became one of...
Billy Strachan was a World War 2 RAF hero and civil rights pioneer. A campaigner against colonialism, he was a member of the Communist Party and the secretary of the London...
“The sunshine of her life she gives, To everything around her, Though brief the season that she lives...
Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an African-American poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. Although she never published her own...
“I just had a God-given talent for making people beautiful…” Zelda Wynn Valdes was a fashion legend who was the first African-American designer to open her own shop on Broadway in...
Olive Elaine Morris was a Black-British community leader and political activist, who campaigned for racial, gender and social equality,...
Alfred Fagon was a Jamaican-born playwright, poet and actor. He was one of the most notable Black British...
The Bronze Woman, which was unveiled on October 8, 2008, in the south London town of Stockwell at the Stockwell Memorial Gardens, is a 10-foot bronze sculpture of a Black woman...
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…
