Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
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,...
Paul Niger was a Guadeloupean poet, novelist, colonial administrator, and anticolonial organizer whose brief but impactful life bridged three significant geographies: Guadeloupe, France, and West Africa. A compelling figure in twentieth-century...
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...
Sarah Forbes Bonetta—born Omoba Aina, or Ina, around 1843—lived a life shaped by extraordinary rupture, displacement, intellect, and self-possession. Remembered for many years chiefly as the African child presented to Queen...
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...
Marcelino dos Santos was a principal intellectual and political architect of Mozambique’s liberation movement. As a poet, organizer, diplomat, Marxist thinker, and long-serving leader of FRELIMO, he transformed dispersed nationalist opposition...
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...
“I have strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.” Mary Edmonia Lewis, known in childhood as “Wildfire,” was one of the most extraordinary artists of the nineteenth century:...
