Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
“I have strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.” Mary Edmonia Lewis, known in childhood as “Wildfire,” was one of the most extraordinary artists of the nineteenth century: a...
Juan Rodríguez (Dutch: Jan Rodrigues; Portuguese: João Rodrigues) holds the distinction of being the first documented non-indigenous person...
Milton Almeida dos Santos was a pioneering Black Brazilian geographer whose groundbreaking work reshaped global understandings of cities,...
“There are no accomplices here other than you and I. You as oppressor, I as liberator, deserve to...
“The whole reason I did games was because people said, ‘You can’t do it.’ I’m one of the...
Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1894–1978) was Kenya’s leading nationalist figure at independence: first Prime Minister of self-governing Kenya from...
My favourite anthology is Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, and I am fortunate to have a signed...
Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe was a renowned Ghanaian doctor, anthropologist, author, poet, and politician. His research into the use of...
Dr. Umar Rashad Johnson is a Pan-Africanist scholar, certified psychologist, activist, and one of the most outspoken contemporary...
Abram Petrovich Hannibal, also known as Gannibal or Ganibal, was kidnapped from his parents in Africa and brought...
Eldridge Cleaver was one of the best-known and most recognizable symbols of African-American rebellion in the 1960s as...
Queen Charlotte’s racial identity remains one of the most intensely debated topics in modern British royal historiography. The...
“Our purpose in life is to leave a legacy for our children and our children’s children. For this reason, we must correct history that at present denies our humanity and self-respect.”...
Jackie Robinson made history in 1947 when he broke baseball’s color barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers....
David Stuurman was a leader of the Khoi people, who fought against Dutch and the British colonialism in...
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —President...
Few acts of collective forgetting have been as thorough and as successful as the erasing of slavery from...
Elijah McCoy was a pioneering Black Canadian‑American mechanical engineer and inventor whose automatic lubricator transformed steam power and...
Jean-Michel Basquiat, known for his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text, was the African American artist who emerged from the “Punk” scene in New York and...
“I am a thinker, writer, activist, creative being, man, dad, husband, grandpop, and son. But just to keep...
In the final days of 1831, western Jamaica erupted into the largest uprising of captive people (Xaymacans) in...
“The myth was that because you were black that you could not do classical dance. I proved that to be wrong.” Arthur Mitchell, born March 27, 1934, is an African-American dancer...
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...