Kentake Page logo
Search
  • Home
  • History Makers
    Random
    • Ernest Everett Just

      Ernest Everett Just : A biologist of unusual skill

      Meserette
      August 14, 2015
      African American, Black Firsts, Famous Leo, History Makers
    Recent
    • Richard Eques

      Richard Egües: La Flauta Mágica

      Meserette
      October 26, 2018
    • Kussala in his home

      Cudjoe Kossula Lewis: The “last African-American ancestor”

      Meserette
      July 26, 2018
      3
    • Abram_Petrovich_Gannibal-1

      Abram Petrovich Hannibal: A Nobleman of Russia

      Meserette
      May 14, 2018
    • Portrait_of_Paul_Belloni_Du_Chaillu

      Paul Belloni Du Chaillu: The “African” Zoologist who became known as the first modern European to confirm the existence of gorillas

      Meserette
      April 29, 2018
    • Isaac Burns Murphy

      Isaac Burns Murphy: One of the Greatest American Jockeys of All Time

      Meserette
      April 16, 2018
    • Walter Tull in uniform

      Walter Tull: Black British War Hero

      Meserette
      March 25, 2018
  • Sistory
    Random
    • Bridget Biddy Mason

      Bridget "Biddy" Mason: From Bondage to Wealth

      Meserette
      August 15, 2015
      African American, Black Firsts, Famous Leo, Herstory, History Makers, Maafa
      1 Comment
    Recent
    • May-B-Mason

      Did You Know that an African-American woman went to the Yukon in the gold rush of 1897?

      Meserette
      April 21, 2019
    • Ona Judge

      Ona Judge: The First Lady’s personal maid who freed herself from bondage and was ‘Never Caught’

      Meserette
      February 24, 2019
    • Dr.-Bello

      Ayiti: An Interview with Professor Bayyinah Bello

      Uchenna Edeh
      January 1, 2019
      1
    • Jackie Ormes cover

      Jackie Ormes: The first professional African American woman cartoonist

      Uchenna Edeh
      August 1, 2017
    • Anna Mac Clarke

      Lt. Anna Mac Clarke: A Military Pioneer

      Meserette
      June 20, 2017
    • elizabeth jennings graham

      Elizabeth Jennings Graham: A 19th Century Rosa Parks

      Meserette
      June 5, 2017
      1
  • Famous Quotes
    Random
    • rap-brown-01

      Ten Powerful Quotes by H. Rap Brown

      Meserette
      October 4, 2016
      Famous Quotes
    Recent
    • Ta-Nehesi Coates

      Ten ‘Black Body’ Quotes from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World And Me”

      Meserette
      August 22, 2018
    • Carter G. Woodson

      Ten Thought-Provoking Quotes from “The Mis-Education of the Negro”

      Meserette
      April 3, 2018
      1
    • Winnie Mandela2

      Ten Powerful Quotes by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

      Meserette
      April 2, 2018
    • Eric Killmonger

      The best line from the Black Panther Movie

      Meserette
      March 1, 2018
      1
    • US athlete Wilma Rudolph shows the gold medal she won at the Women's 100 meters Summer Olympic Games sprint event on September 2, 1960 in Rome, Italy. (AP Photo)

      Ten Inspirational Quotes by Wilma Rudolph

      Meserette
      June 23, 2017
    • Eldridge Cleaver by Brandan Odums

      Ten Revolutionary Quotes by Eldridge Cleaver

      Meserette
      May 1, 2017
  • Literature
    Random
    • Door of Justice

      For My People by Margaret Walker

      Meserette
      July 6, 2015
      Poems, Poetry on the Page
    Recent
    • The Famished Road - Ben Okri

      Magical quotes from ‘The Famished Road’ by Ben Okri

      Meserette
      April 20, 2019
    • The Ebony Bridal Wedding

      A Black Wedding Song

      Meserette
      December 1, 2018
    • Ta-Nehesi Coates

      Ten ‘Black Body’ Quotes from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World And Me”

      Meserette
      August 22, 2018
    • Kehinde Wiley

      For Freckled-Faced Gerald by Etheridge Knight

      Meserette
      April 19, 2018
    • Carter G. Woodson

      Ten Thought-Provoking Quotes from “The Mis-Education of the Negro”

      Meserette
      April 3, 2018
      1
    • Lucille Clifton

      Listen Children: Seven Poems by Lucille Clifton

      Meserette
      June 27, 2017
  • Art & Photograpy
    Random
    • ERNIE BARNES Sidewalk Scene with Graduate

      The Art of Ernie Barnes

      Meserette
      July 15, 2015
      Art & Photograpy, Black Artist
    Recent
    • The Drunkards Path by Diane Britton Dunham

      The Gullah Creole Art of Diane Britton Dunham

      Meserette
      March 16, 2019
    • “Obatalá,”2013, by Cuban artist Erik Olivera Rubio

      The Orisha Art of Erik Olivera Rubio

      Meserette
      December 9, 2017
      1
    • Jackie Ormes cover

      Jackie Ormes: The first professional African American woman cartoonist

      Uchenna Edeh
      August 1, 2017
    • alston-cover-page

      Charles Alston: Reclaiming identity through art

      Uchenna Edeh
      November 28, 2016
      1
    • H O Tanner

      Henry Ossawa Tanner: First internationally acclaimed African American artist

      Uchenna Edeh
      June 21, 2016
    • Silence-and-Repose

      The Art of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

      Meserette
      June 9, 2016
  • Books
    • History books
    • Black Studies
    • Captivity Narrative
    • Historical Novels
    • The QBR 100
    • Non-Black author
  • About
  • Privacy Policy
  • Facebook

Black Poets

Home
Literature
Black Poets
Sterling A. Brown

Sterling Allen Brown: Harlem Renaissance Poet

Meserette
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....
Langston-Hughes

Langston Hughes: Poet Laureate of the Black Race

Meserette
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,...
Phillis

Phillis Wheatley: The first published African-American female poet

Meserette
December 5, 2016
African American, Authors & Poets, Black Firsts, Black Poets, Herstory, History Makers, Maafa
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female poet. She was born in West Africa around 1753, before she was kidnapped and sold into the Maafa (slavery) at the tender age of seven or eight. He...
gil-1800-1396440708

Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Uchenna Edeh
April 1, 2016
African American, Authors & Poets, Black Poets, Famous Aries
Gil Scott-Heron was the African American poet, novelist, musician, and songwriter known primarily for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His syncopated spoken style and critiques of pol...
cruz e sousa

João da Cruz e Sousa: The “Black Swan”

Uchenna Edeh
November 24, 2015
Afro-Latino, Authors & Poets, Black Poets, Brazil, Famous Sagittarius, Literature
Poet João da Cruz e Sousa, (November 24, 1861-March 19, 1898) was the leading figure of the Symbolist movement in Brazil. Called the Cisne Negro (“Black Swan”) by his contemporaries, his poetry weds the te...
Frances Harper

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: The Mother of African American journalism

Meserette
September 24, 2015
African American, African American author, Black Firsts, Black Poets, Famous Libra, History Makers, Shero
Frances E.W. Harper was a leading African-American poet and writer. She was also an ardent activist in the abolitionist and women's rights movements. Harper had a long and prolific career, publishing her first ...
Claude-McKay

Claude McKay: Radical Poet

Meserette
September 15, 2015
African American, African American author, African Caribbean Author, African-Caribbean, Black Poets, Famous Virgo, History Makers
Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet "If We Must Die," the most militant poem of the Harlem Renaissance. Mckay, a key figure of the Renaissance was recognised as the art...
Miss Lou

Honourable Mrs. Louise Bennett-Coverley ‘Miss Lou’ – Mother of Jamaican culture

Natalie Headley
September 7, 2015
African-Caribbean, Authors & Poets, Black Poets, Famous Virgo, Herstory, History Makers, Literature
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, activist, radio and television personality and educator. Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois, she was in...
quincy-trioupe

Quincy Troupe: California’s First Official Poet Laureate

Meserette
July 22, 2015
African American author, Authors & Poets, Black Firsts, Black Poets, Literature
Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. is an awarding-winning African-American author of ten volumes of poetry, three children’s books, and six non-fiction works. Troupe was California's first official poet laureate. In 2...
Mari Evans

Mari Evans: I Am a Black Woman

Meserette
July 16, 2015
African American author, Authors & Poets, Black Poets, Famous Cancer, History Makers, Icons
Mari Evans (born July 16, 1923) is an African-American poet. She is a much anthologized poet, whose work has appeared in more than one hundred anthologies. In 1984 she edited one of the first critical books dev...
    • 1
    • 2

Inspirational Quotes

It’s ok to care about what other people think, but you should give a little more weight to what you, yourself, think…The habit of thinking is the habit of gaining strength. You’re stronger than you believe.

— Nnedi Okorafor

Subscribe to Blog via Email

This form only collects your email address so you can receive notifications of new posts by email. Please read our Privacy Policy.

Latest posts

  • Zulu-Warrior by Stella Pelser

    The Zulu Personal Declaration

    Meserette
    April 21, 2019
    "We need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love. Lo...
  • May-B-Mason

    Did You Know that an African-American woman went to the Yukon in the gold rush of 1897?

    Meserette
    April 21, 2019
    Did you know that May B. Mason staked a gold claim in the Yukon mining territory in 1898, finding gold dust valued (back...
  • The Famished Road - Ben Okri

    Magical quotes from ‘The Famished Road’ by Ben Okri

    Meserette
    April 20, 2019
    The Famished Road by Ben Okri, won the 1991 Man Booker Prize. The novel has the most beautiful beginning of any novel I ...
  • The Drunkards Path by Diane Britton Dunham

    The Gullah Creole Art of Diane Britton Dunham

    Meserette
    March 16, 2019
    Fine Art artist and historian, Diane Britton Dunham, has receive global recognition for her Gullah/Creole inspired art. ...
  • Daughters of St.Helena

    Amelia’s Song: From Sierra Leone to South Carolina

    Meserette
    March 16, 2019
    Amelia's song is one of the most fascinating stories in the African-American drama of the Maafa/Atlantic slavery. A Mend...
  • Ona Judge

    Ona Judge: The First Lady’s personal maid who freed herself from bondage and was ‘Never Caught’

    Meserette
    February 24, 2019
    Ona Judge, known as Oney Judge Staines after marriage, was a bondwoman who worked on George Washington's Mount Vernon la...
  • Marie Joseph Angelique

    Ten Iconic Black Women of the Maafa (Atlantic Slavery)

    Meserette
    February 19, 2019
    "Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is active as your ...
  • Dr.-Bello

    Ayiti: An Interview with Professor Bayyinah Bello

    Uchenna Edeh
    January 1, 2019
    1
    "Ayiti has been blessed to be a country where we have created all the essentials of the identity of a human. We have...

Latest Posts

  • Zulu-Warrior by Stella Pelser

    The Zulu Personal Declaration

    Meserette
    April 21, 2019
  • May-B-Mason

    Did You Know that an African-American woman went to the Yukon in the gold rush of 1897?

    Meserette
    April 21, 2019
  • The Famished Road - Ben Okri

    Magical quotes from ‘The Famished Road’ by Ben Okri

    Meserette
    April 20, 2019
  • The Drunkards Path by Diane Britton Dunham

    The Gullah Creole Art of Diane Britton Dunham

    Meserette
    March 16, 2019
  • Daughters of St.Helena

    Amelia’s Song: From Sierra Leone to South Carolina

    Meserette
    March 16, 2019

Popular Posts

Quotes from The Isis Papers by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
Ten Powerful Quotes by Fred Hampton
Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
Gordon Parks: Renaissance Man

Subscribe to Blog via Email

This form only collects your email address so you can receive notifications of new posts by email. Please read our Privacy Policy.

Search

Tags

Activist African African-American African-American history African-Caribbean Black artist Black Firsts Black History books Black Women's History Cancer Educator Famous Quotes History Maker Leo Libra Maafa Pioneer Sagittarius Scholar Virgo
  • About
  • Privacy Policy
  • Facebook
6
1
0
2
1
1
0