Ottobah Cugoano was a pioneer of the Black radical tradition, becoming a prominent leader in the British abolitionist...
Billy Strachan was a World War 2 RAF hero and civil rights pioneer. A campaigner against colonialism, he...
“The wickedness of the soul is ignorance; the virtue of the soul is knowledge.” ~Ancient Egyptian proverb Picture credit: Artist unknown
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This “Afrikan” story is taken from the novel, Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter by Nozipo Maraire. My...
“How is man to recognize his full self, his full power through the eyes of an incomplete woman?...
“Afrikans are in bondage today because they approach spirituality through religion provided by foreign invaders and conquerors.” ~Haile Selassie I Elliot Rivera, known as the Urban Shaman, has over 40 years...
There is in every person an inward sea, And in that sea there is an island And on...
“The sunshine of her life she gives, To everything around her, Though brief the season that she lives...
My friendthey don’t careif you’re an individualista leftist a rightista shithead or a snakeThey will try to exploit youabsorb you confine youdisconnect you isolate youor kill you And you will disappear...
On July 9, 1841, four Black rivermen—Madison Henderson, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown—were executed...
Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an African-American poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. Although she never published her own...
“It is up to the living to keep in touch with the dead. Man’s power don’t end with death. We just move on to another place. A place where we go...
