Hawaiian scholar, author, composer, hula expert, and educator born. Known for her meticulous and dedicated work for the preservation of ʻŌlelo Hawai'i, she is particularly remembered for her 1957 Haw…

Maroon communities of escaped enslaved peoples existed in Jamaica from the time of Spanish colonialism and control of Jamaica. In particular, the Windward Maroons were majority from west Africa, Akan…