Al-Kahina: The Amazigh Warrior-Queen
March 28, 2014
“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...
What matters is the renewing and long running kinship. Seeking common mission, willing work, memory, melody, song Marriage...
‘Figures like Amílcar Cabral… helped us to imagine the horizons of freedom in far broader terms than were...
“Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that...
Huey P. Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was an African American activist best known for...
“We’ve survived colonization and enslavement and when you consider what we have gone through, the fact that we...
Richard Wright occupies a commanding place in twentieth-century American and African American letters. Novelist, memoirist, essayist, short-story writer, poet, political journalist, and international commentator, he made literature answerable to the lived...
Three captive women were among the approximately 155 people accused of witchcraft in the infamous Salem witch trials...
Trayvon Benjamin Martin was a 17-year-old African American teenager from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot by...
Celia Cruz was a Black Cuban and Cuban American singer whose extraordinary career made her one of the most celebrated and influential vocalists in Cuban and Latin music. Revered as La...
“The whole reason I did games was because people said, ‘You can’t do it.’ I’m one of the...
Alberta Christine Williams King was the mother of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the wife of the Rev....
There is a searing, uncompromising anger that runs through the work of Haitian writer and revolutionary Jacques Roumain, an anger forged in the fires of captivity, colonisation, and class oppression. Nowhere...
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,...