Meserette Kentake is the founder of Kentake Page. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and currently resides in London. Kentake holds a BSc degree in Counselling Psychology, but her passion has always been Afrikan/Black history. Her special "love" interest is the Maafa/Atlantic slavery. Kentake spends her free time reading, researching, and writing up the posts on the site. Contact her at meserette@kentakepage.com
Mary Turner was a young African-American woman, lynched on May 19, 1918, in Valdosta, Georgia, in a horrific manner. She was eight months pregnant at...
John McHenry Boatwright was one of the leading baritone-bass opera singers in America. Boatwright made numerous appearances as a recitalist, and a soloist with orchestras...
Thomas Fuller was an enslaved man who became known as the Virginia Calculator. Although illiterate he was able to perform the most difficult mathematical calculations....
“We must restore the historical consciousness of the African people. The reawakened Africans would then create a new African reality and be a major factor...
Charity Still, the mother of William Still, twice liberated herself from the Maafa/Atlantic slavery with her children. After her first self-liberation, she was recaptured with...
Langston Hughes was an African-American poet and social activist who became the leader of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. Born in Joplin, Missouri on...
Langston Hughes, considered the unofficial Poet Laureate of African-Americans, was a prolific writer, who published ten volumes of poetry. One of Hughes’s most widely anthologized...
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