Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
Born in Africa as Oluale Kossula, he died in America in 1935 as Cudjoe Lewis. Ouale Kossula is...
Abram Petrovich Hannibal, also known as Gannibal or Ganibal, was kidnapped from his parents in Africa and brought...
Walter Daniel John Tull was a professional footballer and one of the British Army’s first Black commissioned officers. Of African-Caribbean and English heritage, he challenged racial barriers in both professional football...
Henry Sylvester Williams was a Trinidadian lawyer, writer, and activist widely regarded as a founding figure in organized...
Anna Mac Clarke was the first African American woman in the U.S. Army to command an otherwise all‑white...
Elizabeth Jennings Graham (born Elizabeth Jennings, c. late 1820s–June 5, 1901) was a Black schoolteacher, church organist, and civil-rights pioneer in New York City. More than a century before Rosa Parks’s...
“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What...
Juan Garrido was an African-born, free Black man who participated in the early Spanish invasions of the Caribbean,...
“We cannot undo the damage that was done to her. But at least we can summon the courage to speak the naked but healing truth that must comfort her wherever she...
Ranavalona III was the last sovereign of the Kingdom of Madagascar. She became queen in 1883, as French...
Angelo Soliman who achieved considerable fame as a “Princely Moor” in eighteenth-century Vienna, is historically recognized by some...
Mansa Musa, the ninth emperor of the Mali Empire, is among the most renowned rulers in world history. Remembered for immense wealth, expansive rule, and patronage of scholarship and architecture, he...
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…
