What is the Maafa?
April 19, 2026
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a pioneering African American author who earned international recognition in the late nineteenth and...
Lucien Victor Alexis Sr. was a New Orleans-born educator, scientist, military officer, entrepreneur, and civic leader whose life...
James Van Der Zee was a renowned African American photographer and a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, celebrated for his evocative portraiture. Over his long career, he combined technical mastery...
“I just had a God-given talent for making people beautiful…” Zelda Wynn Valdes was a fashion legend who...
“I write to celebrate life.” “I would like to be seen as a woman whose roots go back...
Olive Elaine Morris was a Black-British community leader and political activist, who campaigned for racial, gender and social equality, as well as squatters’ rights in the 1970s in the United Kingdom. Morris...
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an African-American athlete who in 1960 became the first American woman to win three...
Wilma Rudolph was an African American athlete who made history in the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome,...
Peter Hill was the first known African American clockmaker, and the only Black clockmaker known to have worked in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was one of the...
Charles L. Reason was an African American mathematician, linguist, educator, and abolitionist. In 1849 he became the first...
“A normal black child, having grown up in a normal family, will become abnormal at the slightest...
Richard Potter was the first African-American magician and the first American-born magician to gain fame in his own country. Potter who called himself, the Emperor of all Conjurors, was the most...
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…
