Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Lewis Hayden was an African-American leader who escaped with his family from the Maafa (slavery) in Kentucky to...
“The legend of the Palmares quilombo and its greatest leader, Zumbi, are central to the history and ongoing...
“The Island of Gorée is an exceptional testimony to one of the greatest tragedies in the history of human societies: the slave trade. The various elements of this “memory island” –...
“There was a militarily gifted and exceptionally daring woman in the front line: Carlota, of Lucumbi origin…” In...
Fanny Jackson Coppin was an African-American educator and missionary and a lifelong advocate for female higher education. Fanny...
Sylvester Magee was an African American who may have been the last living former enslaved American. Although Magee’s claim is undocumented, he received much publicity and was accepted for treatment by...
Mary Ann Shadd, was the first Black woman in North America to publish a newspaper and the first...
“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 Dessalines described as “a tigress,” is formally recognised by the Haitian Government as...
Nathanial “Nat” Turner was the leader of a powerful Maafa (slavery) revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831....
Alonso de Illescas was an Afro‑Ecuadorian leader and an icon for people of African descent in Ecuador. A...
David Walker was an outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-Maafa (Atlantic slavery) activist. In 1829, while living in Boston, Massachusetts, he published An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, a...
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…
