William Ansah Sessarakoo
William Ansah Sessarakoo (c. 1736 – 1770), a prominent 18th-century Fante royal and diplomat, best known for his enslavement in the West Indies and diplomatic mission to England. He was…
Wreck Of The Ship Utile On Tromelin Island
Wreck of the ship Utile On 31 July 1761 the French ship Utile (“Useful”), a frigate of the French East India Company, chartered by Jean-Joseph de Laborde and commanded by…
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 1875 – 1 September 1912) was a British composer and conductor. Of mixed-race birth, Coleridge-Taylor achieved such success that he was referred to by white New…
Milton S. J. Wright
Milton S. J. Wright (1903 – 1972) was an African-American academic born in Georgia. He received his B.A. from Wilberforce University in 1926, his M.A. from Columbia University and his…
Stephen Wiltshire
Stephen Wiltshire MBE, Hon.FSAI, Hon.FSSAA (born 24 April 1974) is a British architectural artist and autistic savant. He is known for his ability to draw a landscape from memory after…
Gert Schramm
Gert Schramm (28 November 1928 in Erfurt, Thuringia – 18 April 2016 in Eberswalde) was a survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was the youngest of six black prisoners.…
Brown Babies
Brown Babies is a term used for children born to black soldiers and white women during and after the Second World War. Other names include “war babies” and “occupation babies.”…
Ivory Bangle Lady
The Ivory Bangle Lady is a skeleton found in Sycamore Terrace, York in 1901. She was a high-status adult female, potentially of North African descent, who died in York in…
Orania: White’s Only Town In South Africa
Orania (Afrikaans pronunciation: ) is an Afrikaner separatist town founded by Afrikaners in South Africa. It is located along the Orange River in the Karoo region of the Northern Cape…
Dutch Slave Coast
The Dutch Slave Coast (Dutch: Slavenkust) refers to the trading posts of the Dutch West India Company on the Slave Coast, which lie in contemporary Ghana, Benin, Togo, and Nigeria.…