Features: Highlighting voices that deserve the spotlight

This is where stories come alive. Our Features hub highlights the trailblazers, changemakers, unsung heroes, and villains who have left their mark on history, culture, and the community. From global icons to local legends, we showcase individuals whose lives changed history, inspire, challenge, and uplift.

Each profile is more than a biography — it's a celebration of resilience, creativity, and impact. Whether you're discovering a revolutionary thinker, a cultural pioneer, or someone quietly changing the world, these stories remind us that greatness comes in many forms — and every voice matters.

Keep hope alive: The rise, power, and legacy of Jesse Jackson

October 8, 1941 – February 17, 2026 Civil rights leader, Baptist Minister, presidential candidate, and voice of the voiceless Origins: A son of the South Jesse Louis Burns came into the world …

Ernesto “Che” Guevara: : The revolutionary icon

Few figures in twentieth-century history have inspired as much devotion and provoked as much controversy as Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the Argentine-born revolutionary whose life and death …

Bartolomé de las Casas and the birth of human rights

In the blood-soaked early decades of Spanish conquest in the Americas, one man’s voice rang out against the violence with a fury that would echo across centuries. Bartolomé de las Casas, …

William Randolph Hearst: The king of Yellow Journalism

Few Americans have shaped the modern media landscape as profoundly, or as controversially, as William Randolph Hearst. He didn’t just publish newspapers; he weaponised them. He didn’t merely report …

Martin Robison Delany: The Abolitionist, Civil War Major, and Father of Black Nationalism

Martin Robison Delany was many things in one lifetime — abolitionist, doctor, newspaper editor, explorer, political theorist, soldier, and arguably the first major Black nationalist thinker in …

Standing firm in power and pride: Eight Black people who shaped history

The theme for UK Black History Month this year is “standing firm in power and pride”, a fitting lens through which to examine some of the individuals whose lives embodied resilience, …

Captain James Cook: Master navigator and Pacific explorer

James Cook stands as one of history’s most accomplished naval explorers, a man whose three Pacific voyages fundamentally changed European understanding of the world’s largest ocean. Born …

Phyllis Coard: Architect of women’s liberation in revolutionary Grenada

The pioneering woman who transformed gender equality during the Grenada Revolution and paid the ultimate price Phyllis Coard was much more than the “only woman among the Grenada 17” – a …

The history of Nana Yaa Asantewaa: The lion-hearted queen mother

In the chronicles of African resistance against colonial rule, few figures command as much respect and admiration as Nana Yaa Asantewaa. Born around 1840 in the Ashanti Empire of present-day Ghana, …

Chien-Shiung Wu: The First Lady of Physics

Chien-Shiung Wu stands as one of the most influential experimental physicists of the 20th century despite often being overshadowed in popular accounts of scientific history. Her meticulous experiments …

Hedy Lamarr: Hollywood star and revolutionary inventor

In the golden age of Hollywood, Hedy Lamarr captivated audiences with her extraordinary beauty and acting talent. Yet behind the glamorous façade was one of the 20th century’s most unexpected …

Five remarkable women who changed history

Happy Women’s History Month! In this post we are shining a light on five incredible Black women whose achievements have shaped history but often don’t get the recognition they deserve. Watch …