Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
“I write to tell the truth about the Black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to...
Audrey Layne Jeffers was one of the most consequential social reformers of twentieth-century Trinidad and Tobago: a pioneering...
Tony Martin was a Trinidad and Tobago-born historian, author, educator, publisher, and Pan-African activist whose scholarly life was devoted above all to restoring Marcus Garvey and Garveyism to their proper place...
Samuel “Sam” Sharpe was one of the principal leaders of the Baptist War, the largest uprising of captive...
In the final days of 1831, western Jamaica erupted into the largest uprising of captive people (Xaymacans) in...
Richard Wright occupies a commanding place in twentieth-century American and African American letters. Novelist, memoirist, essayist, short-story writer, poet, political journalist, and international commentator, he made literature answerable to the lived...
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Jessie Redmon Fauset was an editor, novelist, poet, essayist, educator, and scholar whose labor helped make the Harlem Renaissance possible. Though she was long remembered chiefly as an encourager of other...
The Cuban Revolution was to the Caribbean of the twentieth century what the Haitian Revolution was to the...
On August 17, 1795, the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao witnessed one of the most significant and far-reaching...
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a pioneering African American author who earned international recognition in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Renowned for his literary versatility, Dunbar produced a remarkable body...
