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      Honourable Mrs. Louise Bennett-Coverley 'Miss Lou' - Mother of Jamaican culture

      Natalie Headley
      September 7, 2015
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      Isaac Burns Murphy: One of the Greatest American Jockeys of All Time

      Meserette Kentake
      April 16, 2018
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      Walter Tull: Black British War Hero

      Meserette Kentake
      March 25, 2018
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      William DeHart Hubbard: The first African American to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event

      Meserette Kentake
      November 25, 2017
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      Lt. Anna Mac Clarke: A Military Pioneer

      Meserette Kentake
      June 20, 2017
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      Josiah Henson: Founder of the Black community settlement of Dawn in Ontario, Canada

      Uchenna Edeh
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      Henry Johnson: Buffalo Soldier

      Meserette Kentake
      June 11, 2017
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      Ethel L. Payne: The First Lady of the Black Press

      Meserette Kentake
      August 14, 2015
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      Jackie Ormes: The first professional African American woman cartoonist

      Uchenna Edeh
      August 1, 2017
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      Lt. Anna Mac Clarke: A Military Pioneer

      Meserette Kentake
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      Elizabeth Jennings Graham: A 19th Century Rosa Parks

      Meserette Kentake
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      Ella Fitzgerald: The First Lady of Song

      Meserette Kentake
      April 25, 2017
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      Jo Ann Robinson: Organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott

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      April 17, 2017
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      Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

      Meserette Kentake
      February 4, 2017
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      10 Powerful Quotes by Hugo Chavez

      Meserette Kentake
      July 28, 2016
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      Ten Thought-Provoking Quotes from “The Mis-Education of the Negro”

      Meserette Kentake
      April 3, 2018
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      Ten Powerful Quotes by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

      Meserette Kentake
      April 2, 2018
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      The best line from the Black Panther Movie

      Meserette Kentake
      March 1, 2018
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      Ten Inspirational Quotes by Wilma Rudolph

      Meserette Kentake
      June 23, 2017
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      Ten Revolutionary Quotes by Eldridge Cleaver

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      Ten Revolutionary Quotes by Thomas Sankara

      Meserette Kentake
      December 21, 2016
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      Quotes from Goree: Point of Departure by Angela Barry

      Meserette Kentake
      April 10, 2013
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      For Freckled-Faced Gerald by Etheridge Knight

      Meserette Kentake
      April 19, 2018
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      Ten Thought-Provoking Quotes from “The Mis-Education of the Negro”

      Meserette Kentake
      April 3, 2018
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      Sterling Allen Brown: Harlem Renaissance Poet

      Meserette Kentake
      May 1, 2017
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      10 Iconic Poems by Maya Angelou Every Black Person Should Know

      Meserette Kentake
      April 3, 2017
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      Langston Hughes: Poet Laureate of the Black Race

      Meserette Kentake
      February 1, 2017
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      Phillis Wheatley: The first published African-American female poet

      Meserette Kentake
      December 5, 2016
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      The Art of: Osmond Watson

      Uchenna Edeh
      March 24, 2014
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      Meserette Kentake
      December 9, 2017
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      Jackie Ormes: The first professional African American woman cartoonist

      Uchenna Edeh
      August 1, 2017
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      Charles Alston: Reclaiming identity through art

      Uchenna Edeh
      November 28, 2016
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      Henry Ossawa Tanner: First internationally acclaimed African American artist

      Uchenna Edeh
      June 21, 2016
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      The Art of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

      Meserette Kentake
      June 9, 2016
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      Aaron Douglas: Major artist of the Harlem Renaissance

      Uchenna Edeh
      May 26, 2016
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Author Meserette Kentake

Meserette Kentake

Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page. An avid reader of black history since childhood; spends her free time reading, researching and writing up the posts on the site. Contact her at meserette@kentakepage.com

Sterling A. Brown

Sterling Allen Brown: Harlem Renaissance Poet

Meserette Kentake
May 1, 2017
African American, African American author, Authors & Poets, Black Poets, Famous Taurus
“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....
Ella

Ella Fitzgerald: The First Lady of Song

Meserette Kentake
April 25, 2017
African American, Black Firsts, Famous Taurus, Herstory
Ella Fitzgerald, known as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella was an extraordinary jazz and song vocalist, who won 13 Grammys. In all, Fitzgerald recorded more than 200 albums and some 2,000 so...
Jo Ann Robinson

Jo Ann Robinson: Organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott

Meserette Kentake
April 17, 2017
African American, Famous Aries, History Makers, Shero, Sistory
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Jo Ann Robinson was a civil rights activist who organized a city bus boycott by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 that changed the course of civil rights in America. Jo Ann Robinson was born ...
Maya Angelou

10 Iconic Poems by Maya Angelou Every Black Person Should Know

Meserette Kentake
April 3, 2017
Poems, Poetry on the Page
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Maya Angelou lived life after life in her 86 years. She was an author, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, singer, and civil rights activist. However, she...
Guard of the Harem

Juan Garrido: The first “African American”

Meserette Kentake
February 10, 2017
African American, Afro-Latino, Black Firsts, Controversial Figure, History Makers
1 Comment
Juan Garrido was an African-Spanish conquistador, who is the first documented Black person to arrive in the United States. African by birth, he went to Portugal as a young man, and in converting to Christianity...
Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

Meserette Kentake
February 4, 2017
African American, Black Firsts, Famous Aquarius, Herstory, History Makers
"My desires were to be free as soon as I learned that there had been slavery of human beings." Rosa Parks was nationally recognized as the “mother of the civil rights movement” in America. Her refusal to s...
Langston-Hughes

Langston Hughes: Poet Laureate of the Black Race

Meserette Kentake
February 1, 2017
African American, African American author, Authors & Poets, Black Firsts, Black Poets, Famous Aquarius, Literature
I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head, and joy like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world! Langston Hughes, best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance,...
Yosef Ben-Jochannan

Yosef Ben-Jochannan: Dr. Ben

Meserette Kentake
December 31, 2016
African American, Famous Capricorn, Scholar
"The real story of the scramble for Africa is presented...as having started some time around 1830 AD when France invaded Cueta, the most northern part of Morocco closest to what will be today the Rock of Gibral...
Sarah Baartman

Sarah Baartman: The “first known Black female victim of trafficking

Meserette Kentake
December 29, 2016
African, Black Firsts, Herstory, History Makers
"We cannot undo the damage that was done to her. But at least we can summon the courage to speak the naked but healing truth that must comfort her wherever she may be." --Thabo Mbeki Sarah Baartman, the "first...
madam-cj-walker

Madam C. J. Walker: Self-Made Millionaire

Meserette Kentake
December 23, 2016
African American, Black Firsts, Famous Sagittarius, Herstory, History Makers
"I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there, I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there, I promoted myself into the business of manuf...
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