Angelo Soliman who achieved considerable fame as a “Princely Moor” in eighteenth-century Vienna, is historically recognized by some as the “First Moorish Freemason.” Soliman was born in Africa, around 1721. His original...
On 14 April 1816, the largest Maafa uprising in Barbados’s history broke out. Now known as Bussa’s Rebellion,...
My favourite anthology is Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, and I am fortunate to have a signed...
“There are no accomplices here other than you and I. You as oppressor, I as liberator, deserve to...
“I’ve Come to Take You Home” is one of the most significant political poems of the late twentieth...
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...
This pictorial post features a powerful 40-panel visual narrative by Haitian artist Joseph Kendy titled “Noir & Blanc”...
I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head, and joy like a pearl, attends the needs...
Eldridge Cleaver was one of the best-known and most recognizable symbols of African-American rebellion in the 1960s as...
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...
The Great Depression of the 1930s, threw millions of Americans out of work. During the depression years, Blacks...
According to 100 Great Black Britons website, Queen Phillipa is England’s first Black queen and mother of the...
“Your country? How come it yours? Before the Pilgrims landed we were here. Here we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours: a gift of story and song...
Rosalie Gicanda (1928–1994) was the last Queen of Rwanda, remembered as a “People’s Queen” whose life of quiet dignity ended...
Perhaps best known as the widow of reggae legend Bob Marley and often called the “Queen of Reggae,”...
Djibril Diop Mambety was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer, and poet. Mambety was considered a highly talented and creative filmmaker of exceptional insight and perception, because although he made...
[dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]tis Frank Boykin was an African-American inventor and engineer. Boykin is credited with patenting twenty-eight electronic devices...
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the...
Ever since reading Sobonfu Somé’s book, The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient Teachings in the Ways of Relationship—a source for many of the quotes below—I have admired her deeply. The book’s simplicity...
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...