Author Meserette Kentake

“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 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 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 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...

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...

"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...

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,...

"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...

"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...

"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...