North America – British West Indies

Arthur F. Elmes (1890-1963)
Pastor, Civil Rights Activist, and Boulé President Arthur F. Elmes, was born on March 30, 1890, in St. John’s, Antigua,...
March 21st, 2025

Margaret Vernell James Strickland Collins (1922-1996)
Margaret Vernell James Strickland Collins was a leading scientist on termite diversity and a Civil Rights activist. She was the...
March 28th, 2024

Donald Jasper Harris (1938- )
Donald Jasper Harris is a Jamaican American economist, author, and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University in Stanford, California, since his...
September 14th, 2020

Judson Frazier Eneas (1947-2020)
Judson Frazier Eneas was a pioneering physician and nephrologist, who died of COVID-19 on April 5, 2020. He was classified...
August 20th, 2020

Canadian Expeditionary Force No. 2 Construction Battalion (1914-1918)
When the First World War began in 1914, black Canadian men responded to the call to arms. Like other loyal...
April 24th, 2016

Negritude Movement
The literary movement, Negritude, was born out of the Paris intellectual environment of 1930s and 1940s. It is a product...
June 29th, 2008