Ten Mystical Quotes by Bob Marley Meserette Kentake May 11, 2016 Famous Quotes “Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth livi...
Quotes from Roots by Alex Haley Meserette Kentake August 11, 2013 Literary Quotes "Out under the moon and stars, alone with his son...he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his fa...
Ten Inspirational Quotes by George Washington Carver Meserette Kentake January 12, 2020 Quotes George Washington Carver (1864 – January 5, 1943) was an African American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor,...
Ten Inspirational Quotes by Wilma Rudolph Meserette Kentake June 23, 2017 Famous Cancer, Famous Quotes Wilma Rudolph was an African American athlete who made history in the 1960 Summer Olympic games in Rome, Italy, when sh...
Ten Powerful Quotes by Asa Hilliard Meserette Kentake August 22, 2015 Famous Quotes 4 Comments "Racism is really a mental disorder. Manifestation of racist behaviour as a result of domination are the denial of reali...
Ten Soulful Quotes by Martin Luther King Jr. Meserette Kentake January 18, 2016 Famous Quotes 1. “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” 2. “Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent atti...
Whitney M. Young, Jr. quotes Meserette Kentake July 31, 2015 Famous Quotes “Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.” "Every man is our ...
Ten Powerful Quotes by Angela Davis Meserette Kentake January 26, 2016 Famous Quotes "You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." "We ha...
Quotes from The Isis Papers by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing Meserette Kentake January 2, 2016 Famous Quotes 6 Comments "Racism...is a universal operating system of white supremacy and domination in which the majority of the world's white p...
Quotable Bessie Head Meserette Kentake July 6, 2015 Famous Quotes "Love is a torrential storm of feeling; it thrives only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.” "T...
10 Powerful Quotes by Hugo Chavez Meserette Kentake July 28, 2016 Famous Quotes 1 Comment Hugo Chavez (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was Venezuela’s first multiracial president. He was the President of Venez...
Ten Inspirational Quotes by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Meserette Kentake October 29, 2015 Famous Quotes Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the 24th and current President of Liberia, in office since 2006. She is the world's first elect...
The Hanging of Celia Meserette Kentake December 21, 2015 African American, Herstory, Maafa, Resistance 2 Comments On December 21, 1855, at 2.30pm, Celia an enslaved woman was hanged for the murder of her abusive enslaver, Robert Newso...
Ona Judge: The First Lady’s personal maid who freed herself from bondage and was ‘Never Caught’ Meserette Kentake February 24, 2019 African American, Escape from the Maafa, Herstory, Resistance Ona Judge, known as Oney Judge Staines after marriage, was a bondwoman who worked on George Washington's Mount Vernon la...
Goree: Memory Island Meserette Kentake November 17, 2015 Black History, Maafa "The Island of Gorée is an exceptional testimony to one of the greatest tragedies in the history of human societies: th...
Gordon – “The Scourged Back” Meserette Kentake April 2, 2015 African American, Escape from the Maafa, Heroes of the Maafa, History Makers, Maafa Gordon was an enslaved African-American who became an iconic figure during the Civil War, in exposing the brutality of t...
The Christiana Riot of 1851 Meserette Kentake September 11, 2015 African American history, Escape from the Maafa, Maafa In 1851, in Christiana, Pennsylvania, one of the earliest armed confrontations took place between a group of African-Ame...
Denmark Vesey Meserette Kentake July 2, 2015 African American, Heroes of the Maafa, History Makers, Maafa, Resistance Denmark Vesey (1767 – July 2, 1822) was a free black who masterminded what would have been the largest Maafa (slaver...
Ten Things To Know About Olaudah Equiano Meserette Kentake March 31, 2015 African, Black British, Heroes of the Maafa, History Makers, Maafa, Resistance Olaudah Equiano was born an Igbo around 1745, in what is now eastern Nigeria. He came from a prosperous home; his fathe...
Susie King Taylor: The First Black Army Nurse Meserette Kentake August 6, 2015 African American, Black Firsts, Famous Leo, Herstory, History Makers, Maafa Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse, who tended to an all Black army troop named the First South Carolina V...
James Armistead: The African-American Double-Agent during the Revolutionary War Meserette Kentake July 4, 2015 African American, History Makers, Maafa James Armistead , an enslaved African American, was the most important revolutionary war spy during the American Revolut...
The Heroic Ancestor: Madison Washington Meserette Kentake November 7, 2013 African American, Heroes of the Maafa, History Makers, Maafa, Mutiny, Resistance 1 Comment Madison Washington escaped Euro-American system of enslavement to freedom in Canada. However, Washington could not con...
Dr. José Celso Barbosa: The father of Puerto Rican statehood Meserette Kentake July 27, 2016 Afro-Latino, Black Firsts, Famous Leo, History Makers Dr. José Celso Barbosa was a Puerto Rican physician, sociologist, and political leader, known within Puerto Rico as the...
Elizabeth Jennings Graham: A 19th Century Rosa Parks Meserette Kentake June 5, 2017 African American, Herstory, History Makers, Sistory 1 Comment Elizabeth Jennings Graham (March 1827 – June 5, 1901) was an African-American teacher and civil rights activist, who c...
Dorothy Height Uchenna Edeh March 24, 2014 African American, Famous Aries, Herstory, History Makers Born on March 24, 1912, Dorothy Irene Height, activist, administrator and educator, dedicated her life to seeing racial ...
Funmilayo Ransome Kuti: The Lioness of Lisabi Meserette Kentake October 25, 2015 African, Famous Scorpio, History Makers, Shero Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, the mother of musical legend, Fela Kuti, was also a legend, herself. Known as the Lioness of Lis...
George Robert Carruthers: Inventor of the far-ultraviolet camera and spectrograph Meserette Kentake October 1, 2015 African American, Famous Libra, History Makers George Robert Carruthers is an African American astrophysicist, who is a pioneer in ultraviolet astronomy. Carruthers' i...
McHenry Boatwright: An African-American Bass-Baritone Opera Singer Meserette Kentake February 29, 2020 African American, History Makers, Leap day John McHenry Boatwright was one of the leading baritone-bass opera singers in America. Boatwright made numerous appeara...
William A. Hinton: The first African American to author a medical textbook Meserette Kentake December 15, 2016 African American, Black Firsts, Famous Sagittarius, History Makers William Augustus Hinton was the first Black professor at Harvard Medical School and the first African American to publis...
Constantin Henriquez de Zubiera: The first Black Olympian Meserette Kentake August 3, 2016 African-Caribbean, Black Firsts, History Makers, Olympics The first Black athlete to compete at the Olympics was Haitian-born French rugby player Constantin Henriquez de Zubiera,...
Sarah Jane Woodson Early: The first African American woman professor Uchenna Edeh November 15, 2015 African American, Black Firsts, Famous Scorpio, Herstory, History Makers Sarah Jane Woodson Early was an African American educator, author and temperance activist. For 30 years Early was a teac...
William T. Shorey: The Black Whaling Captain Meserette Kentake July 13, 2015 African American, African-Caribbean, Famous Cancer, History Makers William T. Shorey was a late 19th-century Caribbean-American whaling ship captain affectionately known to his crew as th...
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Pioneering Historian Meserette Kentake January 24, 2016 African American, Afro-Latino, Famous Aquarius, History Makers Arthur Schomburg was a Puerto Rican historian, writer, and activist in the United States who researched and raised aware...
Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement Meserette Kentake February 4, 2017 African American, Black Firsts, Famous Aquarius, Herstory, History Makers "My desires were to be free as soon as I learned that there had been slavery of human beings." Rosa Parks was nationall...
Louis T. Wright: “Mr Harlem Hospital” Meserette Kentake July 23, 2015 African American, Black Firsts, Famous Leo, History Makers
Diahann Carroll: The first Black woman to win a Tony Award for best actress Meserette Kentake July 17, 2015 African American, Black Firsts, Famous Cancer, Herstory
Nelson Mandela: The Father of a Nation. Meserette Kentake July 18, 2015 African, Black Firsts, Famous Cancer, History Makers
Satchel Paige: Baseball trailblazer Uchenna Edeh July 7, 2015 African American, Black Firsts, Famous Cancer
Solitude of Guadeloupe Uchenna Edeh March 26, 2014 African-Caribbean, Heroes of the Maafa, History Makers, Maafa, Resistance, Shero, Uprising/Revolt “As for Solitude, not only does her name now grace squares and avenues in Guadeloupe but she has also become a poem, a...
Alice Augusta Ball: The African-American chemist who developed an effective treatment of leprosy Meserette Kentake July 24, 2015 African American, Famous Leo, Herstory, History Makers
Patti Austin: The Sophisticated Vocalist Meserette Kentake August 10, 2015 African American, Famous Leo, Herstory
Did You Know that an African-American woman went to the Yukon in the gold rush of 1897? Meserette Kentake February 21, 2019 African American, Did You Know?, Herstory
Bridget “Biddy” Mason: From Bondage to Wealth Meserette Kentake August 15, 2015 African American, Black Firsts, Famous Leo, Herstory, History Makers, Maafa 1
Mariah Carey Uchenna Edeh March 27, 2014 African American, Famous Aries, Herstory Singer Mariah Carey was born on March 27, 1970, in Huntington, Long Island, New York, to Alfred Roy Carey, a Venezuelan aeronautical engineer; and Patricia Car...
Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Uchenna Edeh April 1, 2016 African American, Authors & Poets, Black Poet, Famous Aries
Isaac Burns Murphy: One of the Greatest American Jockeys of All Time Meserette Kentake April 16, 2018 African American, Black Firsts, Famous Aries, History Makers
Paul Robeson: 20th Century Renaissance Man Meserette Kentake June 9, 2015 African American, Famous Aries, History Makers
