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Features: Celebrating 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.

Aimé Césaire

Aimé Césaire: A life and legacy of négritude, poetry, and political activism

Aimé Césaire, a towering figure in 20th-century intellectual thought, art, and politics, left a lasting impression on the history of postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean. Césaire’s legacy is …
Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Maggie Aderin-Pocock: A journey to the stars

Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a renowned British space scientist and science educator, has captivated the world with her extraordinary contributions to space science. Overcoming numerous obstacles throughout …
Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great is a name that resonates throughout history as one of the greatest military geniuses of all time. Born in 356 BC in Pella, Macedonia, Alexander inherited from his father, King …
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Is Critical Race Theory really dangerous?

Critical race theory (CRT) is an intellectual framework that emerged in the 1970s in response to the limitations of traditional civil rights approaches for addressing systemic racism. CRT recognises …
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The co-opting of ‘woke’: How far-right conservatives turned a movement into a dog whistle

The term “woke” has undergone a deliberate negative transformation over the past few years. Once used to show awareness of social issues and empathy towards them, the word has been …
Ghandi

Profile on Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, better known as Mahatma Gandhi, was the leader of India’s non-violent independence movement against British rule.  Gandhi is often referred to as Mahatma, …
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What is Commonwealth Day?

Commonwealth Day is an annual celebration that takes place on the second Monday of March. It is an event to celebrate the values, diversity and achievements of the Commonwealth, which comprises over …

Who was Crispus Attucks?

Crispus Attucks was the first American and African American to be killed in the Revolutionary War.  Early family life Born into slavery around 1723, Attucks was said to be the son of Prince …
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison, born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on 18 February 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, was an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor emeritus at Princeton University. …
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Remembrance Day aka Armistice Day explained

Every year on 11 November, Armistice Day commemorates the armistice signing between the Allied armies and Germany at 11am – the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. While …
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Leopold II of Belgium

‍Leopold II was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909. Born on 9 April 1835 in Brussels, he was the eldest surviving son of Leopold I, the first King of the Belgians, and his second wife, …
Paulette (standing), Lucy (on the left), and Jane Nardal at their apartment in Clamart, outside Paris (19 October 1935). Nardal Collection, Collectivité Territoriale de Martinique, Archives de Martinique

Paulette Nardal: Pioneer of the Negritude Movement

Paulette Nardal, a trailblazing intellectual, writer, and activist, played a significant role in the development of the Negritude Movement, which sought to reclaim and celebrate black identity and …
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