Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
James Peters was the first Black man to play rugby union for England. Peters was born on 7...
Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse, who tended to an all-Black army troop named the...
Bill Richmond was an African-American boxer, who was the first Black professional boxer to gain international recognition. Richmond was the Muhammad Ali of his day – quick-witted and fast to react...
Theodore “Tiger” Flowers was the first Black boxer to win the world middleweight championship. Flowers was born on...
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the...
Delos Rogest Davis, teacher and lawyer (August 4, 1846- April 13, 1915) was the second Black lawyer in Canada and the first Black person appointed to the King’s Counsel in all...
“All I have tried to do is to tell their story. Sometimes, moved deeply by such damnable acts...
Augustus Nathaniel Lushington was the first African American to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.), earning the...
Evonne Goolagong Cawley, nicknamed the “Sunshine super girl” is an Australian former World No. 1 female tennis player. She was one of the world’s leading players in the 1970s and early...
George Dixon also known as “Little Chocolate,” was a Black Canadian professional boxer. He was the first black...
Chester Himes was an African American writer best known for his series of Harlem detective novels. In 1958...
Johnson Gideon Beharry is Britain’s highest decorated serving soldier. He became a national hero after risking his life to save a group of wounded soldiers in Iraq. On 18 March 2005,...
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…
