Angelina Weld Grimké
Angelina Weld Grimké was an African-American poet and playwright, an important forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance. “I oft have dreamed the bliss Of the nectar in...
Author : Meserette Kentake
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
[dropcap size=small]A[/dropcap]daobi Tricia Obinne Nwaubani (born in 1976) is a Nigerian novelist, humorist, essayist and journalist. Her debut novel, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best...
When You Have Emptied Our Calabashes by Iyamide Hazeley
When you have emptied our calabashes into your porcelain bowls overflowing the surplus spilling and seeping into foreign soil when you have cleaved the heads...
Belly Song by Etheridge Knight
1 And I and I / must admit that the sea in you has sung / to the sea / in me and I and...
Ten Powerful Quotes by Anthony T. Browder
1. “When African people ruled the earth, thousands of years ago, black skin was a badge of honor. The color black was associated with God...
Walter Moses Burton: The first Black elected sheriff in the United States
Walter Moses Burton holds the distinction of being the first Black elected sheriff in the United States. Burton was also a State Senator in Texas....
New York Maafa Uprising of 1712
In the early 1700s, New York had one of the largest enslaved populations of any of England’s stolen territories. One out of every five New...
Robert Smalls: Civil War Hero
Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American who distinguished himself as a national war hero, statesman and civil-rights leader in the Reconstruction South, serving five terms in...
Booker T. Washington: The African-American Leader who came “Up From Slavery”
[dropcap size=small]B[/dropcap]ooker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American leader and educator. Washington came up from a background of poverty to become the most influential Black educator of the...
Ten Powerful Quotes by Booker T. Washington
“Character, not circumstance, makes the person.” “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by...