Author Meserette Kentake

"Out under the moon and the stars, alone with his son...he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his face to the heavens, and said softly, "Fend kiling dorong leh warrata ka iteh tee." (Beh...

"First I'm Black and I'm after that many things." Afro-Cuban portrait artist Erik Olivera Rubio is known for his unique style of portraiture, and for focusing his art on the African experience in the Dia...

William DeHart Hubbard was the first African American in Olympic history to win an individual gold medal, when he won the long (broad) jump by leaping over 24 feet 5½ inches on July 8 at the 1924 Paris Summer ...

There were three major Maafa (slavery) upheavals in the Caribbean during the early 19th century: Barbados (1816), Demerara (1823), and Jamaica (1831-32). The Demerara revolt of 1823 was by far the largest up...

Wilma Rudolph was an African American athlete who made history in the 1960 Summer Olympic games in Rome, Italy, when she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in the track and field competit...

Anna Mac Clarke was the first African American woman to be a commanding officer of an otherwise all European regiment, when the United States military was still segregated. Clarke joined the Women's Army Corps ...

After the civil war, regiments of African-American soldiers served on the western frontier, battling Native-Americans and protecting European settlers. They became known as Buffalo Soldiers. These buffalo soldi...

Elizabeth Jennings Graham (March 1827 – June 5, 1901) was an African-American teacher and civil rights activist, who challenged segregation on public transportation, a full 100 years before Rosa Parks did so....

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American night...

“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a . What the qualities of life were. With their imagination, they combine two great loves: the love of words and the love of life....