On November 2–3, 1920, a Euro-American mob attacked the African-American community of Ocoee, Florida, after they attempted to exercise their right to vote. The violence, remembered as the Ocoee massacre, left an...
Loïs Mailou Jones (November 3, 1905 – June 9, 1998) was a pioneering painter, designer, and educator whose...
“We are not a people of yesterday. Do they ask how many single seasons we have flowed from...
“We need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love. Love creates...
My favourite anthology is Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, and I am fortunate to have a signed...
“Study History, Erase The Mystery.” Professor James Small has devoted his life to Pan-Africanism, bringing together historical scholarship,...
“Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is...
“There are no accomplices here other than you and I. You as oppressor, I as liberator, deserve to...
On the word Maafa In this cine-essay, I advance an original reading of Sinners that treats the film as a...
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...
On August 28, 1963, over 250,000 demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., for the historic March on Washington for...
“Our purpose in life is to leave a legacy for our children and our children’s children. For this...
“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...
Nina Simone, born Eunice Kathleen Waymon, was an icon of American music. Known as the ‘High Priestess of...
Alberta Christine Williams King was the mother of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the wife of the Rev....
Edward Kamau Brathwaite — born Lawson Edward Brathwaite on May 11, 1930 — was a Barbadian poet, historian, linguist and cultural theorist who became one of the towering figures of Caribbean...
David Walker was a Black abolitionist, writer, and political activist whose uncompromising attack on the Maafa made him...
Juan Garrido was an African-born, free Black man who participated in the early Spanish invasions of the Caribbean,...
Jacques Stephen Alexis (1922–1961) was a Haitian novelist, neurologist, and Marxist political activist whose life and work came to embody the intertwined struggles for culture, dignity, and freedom in 20th‑century Haiti....
Celia Cruz was a Black Cuban and Cuban American singer whose extraordinary career made her one of the...
This summer, I embarked on a 21-day trip to Ghana, motivated by my deep admiration for Ottobah Cugoano,...
Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was the only known adult passenger of African ancestry who died on the ill‑fated voyage of the Titanic on April 15, 1912. A Paris‑educated Haitian engineer, Laroche...
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,...