Time for the site to pay tribute to the English Caribbean Writers!
Derek Walcott, born in Saint Lucia, Literature Nobel Prize
Sir VS Naipaul, born in Trinidad and Tobago
George Lamming, born in Barbados
Jamaica Kincaid, born in Antigua
Rabamai Espinet, born in Trinidad and Tobago
Neil Bissoundath, born in Trinidad and Tobago
Time to know more about great black leaders, activists and personalities:
The widely acclaimed author of Beloved, Tar Baby and The Bluest Eye was born on February 18th, 1931. An American novelist, profesor and editor, she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1993 and an impressive list of awards.
Monday February 17th is Presidents’Day…
Click on the picture to enter the White House’s Site.
Born on February 4th, she was the woman who stood up by staying seated….
He was born on February 17th and was the co-founder of the Black Panther Party. Huey P. Newton was an activist, in favour with violent resistance to the racist US society.
Born a slave in February 1818 and dead on February 20th 1895, Frederick Douglass became one of the most important figures of the abolitionist movement and the first Black American citizen to hold a high government function.
See his biography.
On February 21st, 1965, Malcolm X was shot during a meeting.
On February 17th, 1863, businessman Henri Dunant, from Switzerland, created what will become the Red Cross…Read here
