Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
Paul Niger was a Guadeloupean poet, novelist, colonial administrator, and anticolonial organizer whose brief but impactful life bridged...
Édouard Glissant was one of the great Caribbean writers and thinkers of the twentieth century: a Martinican poet,...
John Sayers Orr—known in the streets and newspapers of his day as “the Angel Gabriel”—deserves to be remembered as a political transatlantic figure of the nineteenth-century Black Atlantic. His career joined...
Sarah Forbes Bonetta—born Omoba Aina, or Ina, around 1843—lived a life shaped by extraordinary rupture, displacement, intellect, and...
Amílcar Cabral (1924–1973) was one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and original Pan-Africanist thinkers. An agronomist, writer,...
‘Figures like Amílcar Cabral… helped us to imagine the horizons of freedom in far broader terms than were available to us through what we now call “civil rights discourse.“’ — Angela...
Marcelino dos Santos was a principal intellectual and political architect of Mozambique’s liberation movement. As a poet, organizer,...
António Agostinho Neto was the first president of independent Angola. He was a physician trained in Portugal, a...
Alain LeRoy Locke was one of the most consequential intellectual figures in twentieth-century American cultural life: a philosopher of value, teacher, editor, critic, patron, and advocate for Black artistic achievement. Often...
“I have strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.” Mary Edmonia Lewis, known in childhood...
Job Maseko stands out as one of the most remarkable South African figures of the Second World War—a...
On the morning of 9 September 1739, a group of African captives in South Carolina began an uprising that would become known as the Stono Rebellion, or Cato’s Rebellion. Beginning near...
