Died 1968 | ||
Wilfred Adolphus Domingo (W. A. Domingo) (1889 – 1968) of Kingston, Jamaica, was an activist and journalist who became the youngest editor of Marcus Garvey's newspaper the Negro World. As an activist and writer, Domingo travelled to the United States advocating for Jamaican sovereignty as a leader of the Black Brotherhood and the Harlem Socialist party.
Career
Domingo was educated in a public school in Jamaica and attended the Board School, an English-run colonial school specifically for the West Indies. Upon graduating, Domingo took up an interest in writing and began to work for Marcus Garvey’s newspaper the Negro World as an editor. Through this role, he gained the attention of Alain Locke during the Harlem Renaissance. Domingo was a contributor to Locke's anthology The New Negro. Domingo's essay "The Gift of the Black Tropics" gave an account of the sudden immigration of foreign-born Africans of the West Indies to Harlem during the early 1920s.