Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
Kwame Ture, originally named Stokely Carmichael, was a prominent Trinidadian-American civil rights activist who advanced the struggle for...
María Remedios del Valle was an Afro‑Argentine freedom fighter, nurse, and guerrilla who became a decorated officer in...
“Die, yes; surrender, no.” In November 1838, an estimated 200–400 African and Brazilian-born people left the coffee estates around Paty do Alferes, in Rio de Janeiro province, and entered the mountainous...
“Each of us has a singular purpose. If one is fortunate enough to self-analyze and discover that purpose,...
On 5 November 1975, Cuba launched Operation Carlota, a military mission to defend Angola’s independence and shift the...
“I have no doubt in my mind that the British are determined to execute me. I have committed no crime. My only crime is that I am a Kenyan revolutionary who...
Ayi Kwei Armah is a Ghanaian novelist, essayist, and Pan-African thinker whose writing confronts the betrayal of freedom...
Thomas Mokopu Mofolo was a Mosotho writer who helped establish the novel as a major form of literary...
Okomfo Anokye occupies a foundational place in Asante history. A priest, healer, counselor, and political thinker, he is remembered alongside Osei Tutu I as a co-founder of the Asante nation in...
Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949–2012) was a groundbreaking Haitian anthropologist, historian, songwriter, and public intellectual whose life and work fundamentally...
On 19 October 1840, the American schooner Hermosa struck a reef near Spanish Key in the Abaco Islands....
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...
