Ten Visionary Quotes on African Filmmaking by Djibril Diop Mambety
Djibril Diop Mambety was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer, and poet. Mambety was considered a highly talented and creative filmmaker of exceptional insight...
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The Art of Norman W. Lewis
Norman W. Lewis was an African American Abstract Expressionism painter. His earlier work was mostly figurative, but in the late 1940s, his work became increasingly...
Ten Powerful Quotes by Haile Selassie
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of...
Nicolás Guillén Landrián: Cuban Documentary Filmmaker
Nicolás Guillén Landrián (1938 in Camagüey, Cuba – July 23, 2003 in Miami, Florida) was a Cuban experimental filmmaker and painter. He was the nephew...
Quincy Troupe: California’s First Official Poet Laureate
Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. is an awarding-winning African-American author of ten volumes of poetry, three children’s books, and six non-fiction works. Troupe was California’s first...
Marie-Madeleine Lachenais: The President of two Presidents
Marie-Madeleine Lachenais, known as Joust was called “The President of two Presidents” and was the most politically powerful woman in the history of Haiti. She...
Charles L. Reason: Maths Prodigy, Educator and Activist
Charles L. Reason was an African American mathematician, linguist, educator, and abolitionist. In 1849 he became the first African American to hold a regular professorship...
Frantz Fanon: The Psychologist of Oppression
“A normal black child, having grown up in a normal family, will become abnormal at the slightest contact with the [whyte] world.” Frantz Fanon was...
Ten Revolutionary Quotes by Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon was a revolutionary political thinker, originally from Martinique. His book The Wretched of the Earth (1961) is seen as the “bible of Third Worldism.” In...
Richard Potter: The first African-American magician
Richard Potter was the first African-American magician and the first American-born magician to gain fame in his own country. Potter who called himself, the Emperor...