“We are not there yet. Not yet Uhuru. Uhuru meaning freedom. We see it every day with our children at school. The trials and tribulation that they go through….with African Canadian young...
On November 2–3, 1920, a Euro-American mob attacked the African-American community of Ocoee, Florida, after they attempted to...
Loïs Mailou Jones (November 3, 1905 – June 9, 1998) was a pioneering painter, designer, and educator whose...
“Study History, Erase The Mystery.” Professor James Small has devoted his life to Pan-Africanism, bringing together historical scholarship,...
“We need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love. Love creates...
“We are not a people of yesterday. Do they ask how many single seasons we have flowed from...
“There are no accomplices here other than you and I. You as oppressor, I as liberator, deserve to...
Anacaona (c. 1474–1503) was a distinguished Taíno poet, and composer of sacred areitos, and a leading cacica of...
Samora Moisés Machel stands as one of the twentieth century’s most inspiring and influential African leaders—a visionary guerrilla...
My favourite anthology is Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, and I am fortunate to have a signed...
“Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is...
Every people should be originators of their own destiny. Martin Robinson Delany (May 6, 1812 – January 24,...
listen children keep this in the place you have for keeping always keep it all ways we have...
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the United States Congress and the first to sit in the United States Senate. A minister, educator, and Republican politician...
There is a searing, uncompromising anger that runs through the work of Haitian writer and revolutionary Jacques Roumain,...
María Remedios del Valle was an Afro‑Argentine freedom fighter, nurse, and guerrilla who became a decorated officer in...
Thomas Mokopu Mofolo was a Mosotho writer who helped establish the novel as a major form of literary expression in Sesotho. Drawing on the rich convergence of oral storytelling, Christian education,...
Caesar was an African healer living under forced servitude in early South Carolina whose knowledge of botanical medicine...
“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What...
Thomas Nelson Baker Sr. (1860–1941) was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in philosophy (1903, Yale University). He was a writer, orator, ethicist, and advocate for a positive Black...
The story of the 369th Infantry Regiment stands as one of the most remarkable chapters in First World...
“Africa will furnish a development of civilization which the world has never yet witnessed. Its great peculiarity will...
“No spring changes the desert. The desert remains; the spring runs dry. Not one spring, not a thousand springs will change the desert.” ~Ayi Aweh Armah I love Kwame Ture. In...
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…
“Let us all pass on the knowledge,planting trees in the shade of whichwe ourselves may never sit.”~Margaret Busby...
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,...