Author : Meserette Kentake

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Meserette Kentake is the founder of Kentake Page. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and currently resides in London. Kentake holds a BSc degree in Counselling Psychology, but her passion has always been Afrikan/Black history. Her special "love" interest is the Maafa/Atlantic slavery. Kentake spends her free time reading, researching, and writing up the posts on the site. Contact her at meserette@kentakepage.com

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Learie Constantine – West Indian Cricket Legend and first Black man to be appointed to the House of Lords

Meserette KentakeSeptember 21, 2015August 24, 2020

by Meserette KentakeSeptember 21, 2015August 24, 20200

Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, Kt. was a West Indian cricket legend, barrister, author, broadcast journalist and political activist who served as Trinidad’s High Commissioner...

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Jakob Marengo: National Hero of Namibia

Meserette KentakeSeptember 20, 2015April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeSeptember 20, 2015April 15, 20180

Jakob Marenga (also known as Jacob Morenga), is a national hero of Namibia. Marenga, which means King in Otjiherero, was an early resistance hero of...

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George Wells Parker: A forgotten historian

Meserette KentakeSeptember 18, 2015August 16, 2020

by Meserette KentakeSeptember 18, 2015August 16, 20200

George Wells Parker was an African-American political activist and historian who co-founded the Hamitic League of the World, to promote African pride and black economic...

Historical writings

The African Origin of the Grecian Civilization by George Wells Parker

Meserette KentakeSeptember 18, 2015March 1, 2020

by Meserette KentakeSeptember 18, 2015March 1, 20200

George Wells Parker’s speech is still a classic. It was delivered to the Omaha Philosophical Society on April 1, 1917 and published in The Journal...

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Rube Foster: Father of Black Baseball

Meserette KentakeSeptember 17, 2015April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeSeptember 17, 2015April 15, 20180

Andrew “Rube” Foster was one of the greatest players in the history of baseball, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981....

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Quamina – Guyana National Hero: involved in the Demerara rebellion of 1823

Meserette KentakeSeptember 16, 2015December 2, 2016

by Meserette KentakeSeptember 16, 2015December 2, 20161

Quamina Gladstone, most often referred to simply as Quamina, was an enslaved Guyanese, a Coromantee, who was father of Jack Gladstone. Quamina and his son...

African American history

The 1963 Bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church

Meserette KentakeSeptember 15, 2015February 23, 2020

by Meserette KentakeSeptember 15, 2015February 23, 20200

Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson, those were the names of the four little girls who were murdered on September 15th,...

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Claude McKay: Radical Poet

Meserette KentakeSeptember 15, 2015April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeSeptember 15, 2015April 15, 20180

Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” the most militant poem of the Harlem Renaissance. Mckay,...

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Alberta Christine Williams King: The mother of a great man

Meserette KentakeSeptember 13, 2015April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeSeptember 13, 2015April 15, 20180

Alberta Christine Williams King was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s mother and the wife of Martin Luther King, Sr. Martin Luther King, Jr. often spoke of...

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Jesse Owens: Olympic Legend

Meserette KentakeSeptember 12, 2015April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeSeptember 12, 2015April 15, 20180

Jesse Owens achieved what no Olympian before him had accomplished, and was recognized in his lifetime as “perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in...

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