Jessie Redmon Fauset was an editor, novelist, poet, essayist, educator, and scholar whose labor helped make the Harlem...
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a pioneering African American author who earned international recognition in the late nineteenth and...
Lucien Victor Alexis Sr. was a New Orleans-born educator, scientist, military officer, entrepreneur, and civic leader whose life embodied disciplined achievement, intellectual ambition, and community service. Born on July 8, 1887,...
James Van Der Zee was a renowned African American photographer and a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance,...
Hubert Henry Harrison (1883–1927) was a towering Caribbean-born intellectual, agitator, and educator whose life forces us to rethink...
No Black history library or book collection is complete without a work by Dr. Na’im Akbar. In addition to being a critical, insightful, and authoritative writer, he is a commanding orator...
“I am a thinker, writer, activist, creative being, man, dad, husband, grandpop, and son. But just to keep...
“Afrikans are in bondage today because they approach spirituality through religion provided by foreign invaders and conquerors.” ~Haile...
“The sunshine of her life she gives, To everything around her, Though brief the season that she lives Nor lost is her endeavor. She is indeed the eye of day, –...
Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an African-American poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. Although she never published her own...
“Marie Couvent was the first [Black] woman to set the example of an enlightened charity, and that for...
“I just had a God-given talent for making people beautiful…” Zelda Wynn Valdes was a fashion legend who was the first African-American designer to open her own shop on Broadway in...
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…
