Arna Wendell Bontemps was a prominent American writer, poet, and librarian who played a key role during the...
Pamela Evans Harris, also known as Trojan Pam, was a Chicago writer, independent publisher, and skilled technician whose...
Born during the Maafa around 1775 or 1776, Gabriel became a skilled blacksmith, a literate artisan, and a revolutionary organizer who sought to transform Virginia. In the summer of 1800, he...
John Brown Russwurm (1799–1851) was one of the most consequential and debated Black intellectuals of the nineteenth-century Atlantic...
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, born Hubert Gerold Brown and widely known during the 1960s as H. Rap Brown, was...
bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, was one of the most influential Black feminist thinkers, cultural critics, educators, and public intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Over a...
Alain LeRoy Locke was one of the most consequential intellectual figures in twentieth-century American cultural life: a philosopher...
“I have strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.” Mary Edmonia Lewis, known in childhood...
“I write to tell the truth about the Black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a Black woman’s view of the world… The most fundamental truth to...
Richard Wright occupies a commanding place in twentieth-century American and African American letters. Novelist, memoirist, essayist, short-story writer,...
Cassandra Wilson was one of the most original vocal artists in American music: a jazz singer, songwriter, guitarist,...
Jessie Redmon Fauset was an editor, novelist, poet, essayist, educator, and scholar whose labor helped make the Harlem Renaissance possible. Though she was long remembered chiefly as an encourager of other...
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…
