Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
Kwame Ture, originally named Stokely Carmichael, was a prominent Trinidadian-American civil rights activist who advanced the struggle for...
María Remedios del Valle was an Afro‑Argentine freedom fighter, nurse, and guerrilla who became a decorated officer in...
“Each of us has a singular purpose. If one is fortunate enough to self-analyze and discover that purpose, then run with it… Expect setbacks, learn from them, and get back up...
“I have no doubt in my mind that the British are determined to execute me. I have committed...
Ayi Kwei Armah is a Ghanaian novelist, essayist, and Pan-African thinker whose writing confronts the betrayal of freedom...
Thomas Mokopu Mofolo was a Mosotho writer who helped establish the novel as a major form of literary expression in Sesotho. Drawing on the rich convergence of oral storytelling, Christian education,...
Okomfo Anokye occupies a foundational place in Asante history. A priest, healer, counselor, and political thinker, he is...
Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949–2012) was a groundbreaking Haitian anthropologist, historian, songwriter, and public intellectual whose life and work fundamentally...
Ntozake Shange centered Black women’s lives in an expansive literary world. A poet, playwright, novelist, and essayist, she brought speech, music, and movement together in forms that refused to keep the...
Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a pivotal military leader during the Haitian Revolution and is recognized as the founding father...
Kerry James Marshall has built his career around a defining ambition: to place Black people at the center...
“Study History, Erase The Mystery.” Professor James Small has devoted his life to Pan-Africanism, bringing together historical scholarship, political activism and spiritual teaching. Across classrooms, community organizations and international lecture platforms,...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
