Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
Nicolás Guillén Landrián was one of the most original filmmakers of the Cuban Revolution’s first decades. An Afro-Cuban...
Samora Moisés Machel stands as one of the twentieth century’s most inspiring and influential African leaders—a visionary guerrilla...
“Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.” Saint Cyprian of Carthage—bishop, theologian, pastor, and martyr—was one of the most influential Christian leaders of third-century Roman...
Cyprian Ekwensi was a pioneering Nigerian author, pharmacist, broadcaster, and public servant. Widely regarded as a chronicler of...
bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, was one of the most influential Black feminist thinkers, cultural critics, educators,...
Paul Niger was a Guadeloupean poet, novelist, colonial administrator, and anticolonial organizer whose brief but impactful life bridged three significant geographies: Guadeloupe, France, and West Africa. A compelling figure in twentieth-century...
Édouard Glissant was one of the great Caribbean writers and thinkers of the twentieth century: a Martinican poet,...
John Sayers Orr—known in the streets and newspapers of his day as “the Angel Gabriel”—deserves to be remembered...
Sarah Forbes Bonetta—born Omoba Aina, or Ina, around 1843—lived a life shaped by extraordinary rupture, displacement, intellect, and self-possession. Remembered for many years chiefly as the African child presented to Queen...
‘Figures like Amílcar Cabral… helped us to imagine the horizons of freedom in far broader terms than were...
Marcelino dos Santos was a principal intellectual and political architect of Mozambique’s liberation movement. As a poet, organizer,...
António Agostinho Neto was the first president of independent Angola. He was a physician trained in Portugal, a renowned poet whose work expressed anti-colonial longing and the hope for national rebirth,...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
