York: The Black Explorer
June 29, 2015
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...
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed the most effective treatment of leprosy until the...
Bernard Jeffrey McCullough—known to the world as Bernie Mac—was an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer whose fearless...
Carl Owens is one of the great African-American artists of Detroit. He is best known as an illustrator, portrait artist and fine arts painter. One of his best known works is...
Joe Louis, the “Brown Bomber,” was one of the most dominant heavyweight champions in boxing history and a...
Bill Richmond was an American-born, British-based bare-knuckle boxer who rose from captivity to become one of Britain’s earliest...
Basil Barrington Watson, OJ was one of Jamaica’s foremost painters and a central figure in the development of post-Independence Jamaican art. In 2000, he received the Institute of Jamaica’s Gold Musgrave...
Sugar Ray Robinson is considered one of the greatest boxers of all time. Robinson held the world welterweight...
The following quotes are adapted from The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson, widely recognised as...
Ntozake Shange centered Black women’s lives in an expansive literary world. A poet, playwright, novelist, and essayist, she brought speech, music, and movement together in forms that refused to keep the...
Georgia Douglas Johnson was among the earliest African American women poets to gain widespread recognition and became one...
Dihya, later remembered as al-Kāhina, was an Amazigh political and military leader associated with the Aurès region of...
“We were here at least 56,000 years ago; Africans came over. The Mongolians don’t come until 2,600 BC and they shared their blood with the Africans and their children became the...
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,...