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...
Patricia E. Bath discovered and invented the Laserphaco Probe, a new device for cataract surgery. Bath is also...
Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series (1940–41), a sequence of 60 paintings, depicts the mass movement of African Americans...
Gerard Sekoto is widely recognized as the pioneer of South African Art. He was born on December 9th at Botshabelo mission, near Middleberg, Mpumulanga. In 1938 at the age of 25,...
Hale Aspacio Woodruff (August 26, 1900 – September 6, 1980) was an African-American artist known for his murals,...
“Understanding who you are is the clear light. Without it, you are walking in the dark, the unknown.”...
Quamina Gladstone, commonly known as Quamina, was an African-born Guyanese man of Akan/Coromantee heritage and the father of Jack Gladstone. He and his son were central figures in the Demerara Rising...
When you have emptied our calabashes into your porcelain bowls overflowing the surplus spilling and seeping into foreign...
Nina Simone, born Eunice Kathleen Waymon, was an icon of American music. Known as the ‘High Priestess of...
“It is up to the living to keep in touch with the dead. Man’s power don’t end with death. We just move on to another place. A place where we go...
Ytasha L. Womack is the author, filmmaker, dancer and innovator whose book Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci...
“We were here at least 56,000 years ago; Africans came over. The Mongolians don’t come until 2,600 BC...
Thomas Fuller was an Afrikan man in captivity in North America, who became known as the Virginia Calculator. Although illiterate, he was able to perform the most difficult mathematical calculations 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…
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...