Jeannette Ehlers (born 1973) is a Danish-Trinidadian artist based in Copenhagen. Her work address's themes and questions around race, colonialism, and the Black memory/history in Denmark. Ehlers is a multifaceted artist who uses a variety of...
I Am Queen Mary is a statue in Copenhagen, Denmark of Mary Thomas, a leader of the 1878 "Fireburn" labor revolt in St. Croix, a former Danish colony now part of the U.S. Virgin Islands. The statue, created by artists Jeannette Ehlers and La Vaughn...
La Vaughn Belle (born 1974) is an artist from the United States Virgin Islands who uses a variety of media including drawings, paintings, woodwork, ceramics, photography, and video. She is best known for co-creating with Jeannette Ehlers the 23-foot...
Ashleigh Shanti (born circa 1991) is an American chef, sommelier and cookbook author. She is a freelance chef. Shanti specializes in African American foodways, including Black Appalachian cuisine.
Mary Thomas, known as Queen Mary (c. 1848–1905), was one of the leaders of the 1878 "Fireburn" labor riot, or uprising, on the island of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies.
The National Windrush Monument is a bronze sculpture by Basil Watson in London Waterloo station. The monument commemorates the British African-Caribbean immigrants who came to the United Kingdom on board HMT Empire Windrush in 1948, who were the...
The Danish West Indies (Danish: Dansk Vestindien), also known as the Danish Virgin Islands (Danish: Danske Jomfruøer) or the Danish Antilles, were a Danish colony in the Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas with 83 square kilometres...
The St. Croix Labor Riot of 1878, also known as the Fireburn, was a labor riot in the Danish West Indies, now the U.S. Virgin Islands, illustrating the lasting effects of the slavery and systematic exploitation of liberated laborers. Even after...
David Armstrong VI (born David Thomas Armstrong, 1968) is a Canadian artist, living and working in Montreal, Quebec.
African Photography Encounters (French: Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie), more commonly known as Bamako Encounters, is a biennial exhibition in Bamako, Mali, held since 1994. It is the first and largest African photography biennial. The...