The arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury on 22 June 1948 stands as a defining moment in modern British history. The passengers aboard, alongside the broader wave of post-war migration from...
Bernard Jeffrey McCullough—known to the world as Bernie Mac—was an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer whose fearless...
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a Black Canadian-American educator, abolitionist, writer, newspaper publisher, army recruiter, suffragist, and legal...
Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, is an expansive and compelling anthology of words and writings by...
Sanité Bélair (born Suzanne Bélair), was a Haitian freedom fighter and revolutionary during the Haitian Revolution. Sanité, whom...
George Robert Carruthers was an African American space physicist and engineer, and a pioneer in ultraviolet astronomy. His...
Thomas Mundy Peterson—also recorded during his lifetime as Thomas Peterson, Thomas Mundy, Thomas Peterson-Mundy, and Thomas H. or...
Alonso de Illescas was an Afro‑Ecuadorian leader and an icon for people of African descent in Ecuador. A...
Nat Turner (c. 2 October 1800–11 November 1831) was a Black preacher, religious visionary, and revolutionary whose leadership...
Celia Cruz was a Black Cuban and Cuban American singer whose extraordinary career made her one of the...
H. Rap Brown—later known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin—was one of the most forceful voices of the Black Power...
Dihya, later remembered as al-Kāhina, was an Amazigh political and military leader associated with the Aurès region of...
Born during the Maafa around 1775 or 1776, Gabriel became a skilled blacksmith, a literate artisan, and a...
Anna Albertine Olga Brown was a famous late 19th‑century circus performer known as Miss La La. Lala was born on April 21st, 1858, in the then German (now Polish) city of...
There is a searing, uncompromising anger that runs through the work of Haitian writer and revolutionary Jacques Roumain,...
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (June 9, 1877 – 18 March 1968) was an African-American sculptor, whose career lasted more than seventy years....
William Henry Johnson emerged from his participation in the First World War as one of the most extraordinary soldiers of his generation. Serving in the 369th Infantry Regiment, the famed Harlem...
Édouard Glissant was one of the great Caribbean writers and thinkers of the twentieth century: a Martinican poet,...
“Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.” Saint Cyprian of Carthage—bishop, theologian,...
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., born on December 18, 1912, in Washington, D.C., was a pioneering pilot, officer, and administrator who broke barriers as the first African American general in the U.S....
Patricia E. Bath discovered and invented the Laserphaco Probe, a new device for cataract surgery. Bath is also...
Dr. John Henrik Clarke (1915–1998) was a Pan-Africanist scholar, historian, writer, lecturer, and one of the formative architects...
“Racism is really a mental disorder. Manifestation of racist behaviour as a result of domination are the denial of reality, perceptual distortion, delusion of grandeur, phobias in the face of differences,...
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…
Before Ten Figures in Black British History Before Windrush became an essay, it was a school presentation. In...
We shall return To the houses, to our crops,to the beaches, to our fieldswe shall return To our...
“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned,...
“We must take the unequivocal position that if the Black race is to perish, the world must perish...
I conclude this series with two istwa that some readers may consider controversial choices: the Cuban Revolution and...
“What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of...
Part 1 of My Top Ten Black History Events explored how I define Black history and where I...
A few months ago, I reflected on the meaning of Black history and the ten major events that...
Toni Morrison once wrote, “If there’s a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet,...
Dear Subscribers, I’m excited to announce that Kentake Page has undergone a complete transformation—our brand new website is...
People often ask where to begin learning Black history. Usually, they ask for the name of a book,...
The Kentake Page website recently developed internal issues that prevented me from publishing new posts. After the passing...