Author Meserette Kentake

Redoshi was born in modern-day Benin and abducted from her home aged 12 before being sold as a child bride. She was renamed Sally Smith in the United States after arriving there in 1860 and stayed on the same p...

John McHenry Boatwright was one of the leading baritone-bass opera singers in America. Boatwright made numerous appearances as a recitalist, and a soloist with orchestras and on the opera stage. He sang for se...

T homas Fuller was an enslaved man who became known as the Virginia Calculator. Although illiterate he was able to perform the most difficult mathematical calculations. Late in his life Fuller was discovered...

"We must restore the historical consciousness of the African people. The reawakened Africans would then create a new African reality and be a major factor in rescuing the world from the pessimistic prospects fa...

Charity Still, the mother of William Still, twice liberated herself from the Maafa/Atlantic slavery with her children. After her first self-liberation, she was recaptured with her four children, by slave-hunter...

I’ve come to take you home is one of the most important poems of political significance in the 20th Century. Written in 1998, by Diana Ferrus, a South African writer, poet and storyteller of Khoisan ancestry,...

Langston Hughes was an African-American poet and social activist who became the leader of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. Born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902, Hughes was an innovator of the jazz p...

Langston Hughes, considered the unofficial Poet Laureate of African-Americans, was a prolific writer, who published ten volumes of poetry. One of Hughes's most widely anthologized poem, was his first published ...

On January 24th 1773, the captive people aboard the New Britannia, revolted. The ship which was on the Gambian river, in Senegambia, was blown up, killing everyone on board. This was one of the most dramatic fo...

François Makandal (or Mackandal) is a legendary historical figure of Haiti. He was a Maroon leader who organized the first real attempt at the destruction of the French and enslavement in Saint Domingue. Makan...