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Alain LeRoy Locke was one of the most consequential intellectual figures in twentieth-century American cultural life: a philosopher of value, teacher, editor, critic, patron, and advocate for Black artistic achievement.

“I have strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.”

Job Maseko stands out as one of the most remarkable South African figures of the Second World War—a Black serviceman whose daring act of sabotage in German-occupied Tobruk showcased extraordinary technical skill, courage, and determination.

On the morning of 9 September 1739, a group of African captives in South Carolina began an uprising that would become known as the Stono Rebellion, or Cato’s Rebellion.

“I write to tell the truth about the Black condition as I see it.

Audrey Layne Jeffers was one of the most consequential social reformers of twentieth-century Trinidad and Tobago: a pioneering social worker, feminist organiser, educator, and political trailblazer whose work reshaped ideas of public welfare and women’s c…

Tony Martin was a Trinidad and Tobago-born historian, author, educator, publisher, and Pan-African activist whose scholarly life was devoted above all to restoring Marcus Garvey and Garveyism to their proper place in African and diasporic history.

Samuel “Sam” Sharpe was one of the principal leaders of the Baptist War, the largest uprising of captive people (Xaymacans) in Jamaican history and the Caribbean territories under British oppression.

In the final days of 1831, western Jamaica erupted into the largest uprising of captive people (Xaymacans) in the history of the Caribbean held under British oppression.

Richard Wright occupies a commanding place in twentieth-century American and African American letters.

Cassandra Wilson was one of the most original vocal artists in American music: a jazz singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and interpreter whose deep contralto carried Mississippi’s tonal memory into a strikingly modern musical world.

“We Wear The Mask” was first published in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s collection Majors and Minors in 1895.