North America-Jamaica
Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (1892-1975)
Emperor Haile Selassie was born on July 23, 1892 as Tafari Makonnen just outside the city of Harrar in Enjersa...
Rosemary Brown (1930-2003)
Rosemary Brown has the distinction of being the first black woman in Canada to be elected to public office. She...
Stanley G. Grizzle (1918- )
Stanley G. Grizzle founded the Railway Porter’s Trade Union Council and served as president of the Toronto Canadian Pacific Railroad...
Bob Marley (1945-1981)
Robert Nesta Marley was born on February 6, 1945, on his grandfather Omeriah Malcolm’s farm in the rural interior of...
June Jordan (1936-2002)
June Meyer Jordan, writer, editor, poet, educator, environmental and social activist, was the only child of Granville Ivanhoe and Mildred...
Cynthia Ann McKinney (1955- )
Cynthia Ann McKinney was born on March 17, 1955 in Atlanta, Georgia to parents Billy McKinney, who was a police...
Amy Jacques Garvey (1896-1973)
Amy Jacques Garvey became the second wife of famous United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) leader Marcus Garvey in July 1922,...
Amy Ashwood Garvey (1897-1969)
Amy Ashwood Garvey was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica, but spent most of her childhood in Panama where her father...
Nancy Gardner Prince (1799-ca. 1856)
Little is known about the early life of Nancy Gardner Prince, except from what she reveals in her 1853 autobiography,...
