Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
Val Irvine McCalla was a Jamaican-born British accountant and media entrepreneur who founded The Voice, transforming the landscape...
John Brown Russwurm (1799–1851) was one of the most consequential and debated Black intellectuals of the nineteenth-century Atlantic...
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, born Hubert Gerold Brown and widely known during the 1960s as H. Rap Brown, was a Black Power organiser, writer, Muslim imam, and community leader. He rose to...
The arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury on 22 June 1948 stands as a defining moment in...
Nicolás Guillén Landrián was one of the most original filmmakers of the Cuban Revolution’s first decades. An Afro-Cuban...
In 2013, a quietly extraordinary discovery emerged from South Carolina. Albert Perry, an African American man, carried a rare Y-chromosome lineage—one so ancient that it pushed the known roots of the...
Around 1830–31, the grave of a young southern African man was violated. French taxidermists then transformed his body...
Samora Moisés Machel stands as one of the twentieth century’s most inspiring and influential African leaders—a visionary guerrilla...
“Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.” Saint Cyprian of Carthage—bishop, theologian, pastor, and martyr—was one of the most influential Christian leaders of third-century Roman...
Cyprian Ekwensi was a pioneering Nigerian author, pharmacist, broadcaster, and public servant. Widely regarded as a chronicler of...
Lejja, located in the Nsukka cultural region of present-day Enugu State, Nigeria, is recognized as the oldest known...
bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, was one of the most influential Black feminist thinkers, cultural critics, educators, and public intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Over a...
