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Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.”

— Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

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Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins: Autistic savant and musical genius

Regina M. Anderson: Harlem’s Librarian of the Renaissance

David Nelson Crosthwait Jr.: Inventor and leader in electrical and...

Benjamin Rucker aka Black Herman: The Militant African-American Magician

Aaron Douglas: Major artist of the Harlem Renaissance

Henry Johnson: Buffalo Soldier

Remembering Maurice Bishop

Maurice Bishop: Grenada’s Revolutionary Son

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Satisfy your curiosity: Black History books you must read.

Meserette KentakeAugust 4, 2013May 31, 2026

August 4, 2013May 31, 20263

Maya Angelou stated, “I write because I have profound truths to reveal.” I believe it is our individual responsibility to read and study the works of Black authors with profound truths to reveal. Truths revealed and acted upon can lead to the revolution that must...

SINNERS and the Three Worlds: A Cosmological Reading of Black Woundedness

Meserette KentakeApril 15, 2026June 2, 2026

April 15, 2026June 2, 20260

On the word Maafa In this cine-essay, I advance an original reading of Sinners that treats the film as a meditation on the Maafa as a cosmological rupture: the violent breaking of an African three‑world field that binds Ancestors, the Living, and the Unborn. The term Maafa...

Ryan Coogler: The Cinematic Medium

Meserette KentakeMay 23, 2026May 23, 2026

May 23, 2026May 23, 20260

Ryan Coogler’s birth chart features a Yod, a rare astrological configuration often called the “finger of fate” or “finger of God.” In astrology, a Yod signals a powerful sense of destiny and a singular life path. I had already written a meditation on Coogler as...

What is the Maafa?

Meserette KentakeApril 19, 2026May 3, 2026

April 19, 2026May 3, 20260

This essay explains how the term Maafa is used across Kentake Page. The term Maafa was introduced by Marimba Ani in her 1988 book, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, to capture the 500-year—and continuing—catastrophe of Atlantic trafficking and captivity. In Kiswahili, Maafa means “great disaster” or...

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