Daughters of Africa
Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby is the most comprehensive and compelling collection of words and writings by women of African descent through the ages. Arranged...
Author : Meserette Kentake
Ignatius Sancho: A Man of Letters
Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729 – 14 December 1780) is the first known Black Briton to vote in a British election. He gained fame in his lifetime and after his death...
Ten Great Quotes by Nelson Mandela
I have read most ‘adult’ books on Nelson Mandela, and my favorite is Conversations with Myself. I have found him deeply inspiring. His mind was...
Psycho-Academic Holocaust: The Special Education & ADHD Wars Against Black Boys
Psycho-Academic Holocaust: The Special Education & ADHD Wars Against Black Boys by Umar Johnson discusses such topics as the movement to eliminate public education, the role...
Ten Powerful Quotes from Message to the Grassroots by Malcolm X
“Message to the Grass Roots” was a public speech delivered by Malcolm X on November 10, 1963, at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference,...
The Heroic Ancestor: Madison Washington
Madison Washington escaped Euro-American system of enslavement to freedom in Canada. However, Washington could not continue to live free in Canada while the woman he...
The Art of Lois Mailou Jones
Lois Mailou Jones “was an iconic African- American painter and an important historic link in a path-breaking generation of Black American artists. Her eclectic, academic work,...
Capitalism and Slavery
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and...
You Are by Kwame McPherson
You Are …the honey in my Cerassie tea …the Ackee with my Saltfish …the Rum in my Coke …the Ganja in my cake, well soaked…...
Somebody Blew Up America: The Poem
Amiri Baraka wrote the poem Somebody Blew Up America about the September 11th Attacks. The poem was explicit in its condemnation of US foreign policy...