Una Marson was a pioneering poet, journalist, and broadcaster. As the BBC’s first Black woman producer and broadcaster, she reshaped what it meant to be Caribbean, modern, and unapologetically visible in a world determined not to see her. Early Beginnings Born in 1905 in Santa Cruz, Jamaica, Marson was the youngest of nine children. Her sharp intellect and fierce independence showed early, and at 21, she launched her journalism career as an assistant editor at  The Critic  in