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A new Royal Mint commemorative coin in honour of Jamaican-British nurse Mary Seacole has been revealed to coincide with the UK’s Black History Month. It is the second coin to feature a named Black ...

Live Arts Theater’s 2024-2025 Voyages Season continues with the Virginia premiere of “Marys Seacole,” Jackie Sibblies Drury’s time-travelling chronicle inspired by the real-life of Mary Seacole.

You’ve likely heard of Florence Nightingale but perhaps not Mary Seacole, a similarly courageous nurse and humanitarian who was born in 1805 in Jamaica (she was the daughter of a white Scottish ...

Portrait of Mary Seacole by Albert Charles Challen (1869) (via National Portrait Gallery/Wikimedia) (click to enlarge) The sculpture on London’s South Bank stands in the gardens of St Thomas’ Hospital ...

Broadway star and famed singer of the “Reading Rainbow” television show theme song, Tina Fabrique appears alongside local favorite Kim Bey under the direction of beloved local director Eric Ruffin in ...

This month, Tina Fabrique stars in Mosaic Theater’s “Marys Seacole” now through May 29. “It is about Mary Seacole,” Fabrique told WTOP. “This is her story about her life and her work as a caregiver, ...

There are perfect well-made plays. Then there are plays that thrill and incite, refusing to accept simple, neatly-tied solutions. Jackie Sibblies Drury's Marys Seacole is wild, brave, and absolutely ...

The “extraordinary” Mary Seacole – who was renowned for giving succour to British troops during the Crimean War – has in recent years become something of a “political touchstone”, said Andrew Lycett ...

Helen Rappaport’s “In Search of Mary Seacole” gives a Black nursing legend her due. By Linda Villarosa When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...