Ten Inspirational Quotes by John Lewis
John Lewis was a prominent African-American leader in the civil rights movement in the 1960s, who was awarded the highest civilian honor of the United...
Author : Meserette Kentake
July 9, 1841: Four Black Men executed for a bank robbery
On July 9, 1841, four Black men were executed. “Having a taste for blood and the destruction of black bodies,” the execution riveted the Euro-American...
Gwendolyn B. Bennett: The Harlem Renaissance Writer and Painter
Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an African-American poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. Although she never published her own volume of poetry, she was one of...
In Praise of the Ancestors by Mazisi Kunene
I have come to appreciate that African wisdom recognizes that there are other unseen forces in the universe apart from the creator. The Egun (Ancestors)...
Marie Couvent: A Controversial African-American Philanthropist
“Marie Couvent was the first [Black] woman to set the example of an enlightened charity, and that for a long time she was the only...
Zelda Wynn Valdes: The Creator of the Playboy Bunny Costume
“I just had a God-given talent for making people beautiful…” Zelda Wynn Valdes was a fashion legend who was the first African-American designer to open...
Nkosi Johnson: The Child AIDS Campaigner
Nkosi Johnson was a South African child activist. Johnson was born with HIV and died at the age of 12 in 2001. At the time...
E.R. Braithwaite: The Guyanese-American author of “To Sir With Love”
E. R. Braithwaite was a Guyanese-American writer, teacher, and diplomat, best known for his semi-autobiographical book To Sir, With Love (1959) which was adapted into a...
Lucille Clifton: The Award-winning Poet
“I write to celebrate life.” “I would like to be seen as a woman whose roots go back to Africa, who tried to honor being...
Olive Morris: The Black-British Activist
Olive Elaine Morris was a Black-British community leader and political activist, who campaigned for racial, gender and social equality, as well as squatters’ rights in the...