Cassandra Wilson was one of the most original vocal artists in American music: a jazz singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and interpreter whose deep contralto carried Mississippi’s tonal memory into a strikingly modern...
Dr. John Henrik Clarke was a Pan-Africanist scholar and historian and a pioneer of Africana studies, who became...
Anacaona (c. 1474–1503) was a distinguished Taíno poet, and composer of sacred areitos, and a leading cacica of...
Marimba Ani stands as one of the most incisive and fearless architects of African-centered thought. As a scholar-activist,...
“We were here at least 56,000 years ago; Africans came over. The Mongolians don’t come until 2,600 BC...
“The whole reason I did games was because people said, ‘You can’t do it.’ I’m one of the...
My favourite anthology is Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, and I am fortunate to have a signed...
Angelo Soliman who achieved considerable fame as a “Princely Moor” in eighteenth-century Vienna, is historically recognized by some...
“I’ve Come to Take You Home” is one of the most significant political poems of the late twentieth...
Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend an all Euro-American public elementary school in the American...
“Africa will furnish a development of civilization which the world has never yet witnessed. Its great peculiarity will...
The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 was a politically motivated attack by European-Americans against the city’s leading African American citizens. The massacre occurred because Southern Whyte Democrats wanted to regain political domination...
Norman W. Lewis was an African American Abstract Expressionism painter. His earlier work was mostly figurative, but in...
How will I ever forget you, magic leaf Tormented as I am by your taunts The prodding jeers...
Johnson Gideon Beharry is Britain’s highest decorated serving soldier. He became a national hero after risking his life to save a group of wounded soldiers in Iraq. On 18 March 2005,...
Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was the only known adult passenger of African ancestry who died on the ill‑fated...
Harriet E. Wilson is considered the first female African-American novelist, as well as the first African American of...
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. (ONH) was a Jamaican-born Black nationalist who created a ‘Back to Africa’ movement in the United States. He became an inspirational figure for later civil rights activists,...
“But what of black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought...
On January 1, 1923 a massacre was carried out in Rosewood, a town with about 150 residents. Rosewood...
[dropcap size=small]H[/dropcap]erman Russell Branson (August 14, 1914 – June 7, 1995) was an African-American physicist and chemist, who was co-inventor of the alpha helix and perhaps deserved a share of the...
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…
“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...
I have been on a rampage, as we would say in Jamaica. It feels as if I am...
Ryan Coogler’s birth chart features a Yod, a rare astrological configuration often called the “finger of fate” or...
Today is World Bee Day—an opportunity to honor both Blackness and “Beeness”, and to celebrate the long, buzzing...