Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]illiam DeHart Hubbard was the first African American in Olympic history to win an individual gold medal,...
Jackie Ormes (August 1, 1911 – December 26, 1985) was born Zelda Jackson in a small town outside...
Anna Mac Clarke was the first African American woman in the U.S. Army to command an otherwise all‑white unit while the military was still formally segregated. She joined the Women’s Army...
Josiah Henson, was a spiritual leader, author and founder of the Black community settlement at Dawn in Ontario,...
Elizabeth Jennings Graham (born Elizabeth Jennings, c. late 1820s–June 5, 1901) was a Black schoolteacher, church organist, and...
“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What the qualities of life were. With their imagination, they combine two great loves:...
Ella Fitzgerald, known as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella was an extraordinary...
Jo Ann Robinson was a civil rights activist who organized a city bus boycott by African Americans in...
Juan Garrido was an African-born, free Black man who participated in the early Spanish invasions of the Caribbean, Florida, and Mexico. He is widely regarded as the first African known to...
“My desires were to be free as soon as I learned that there had been slavery of human...
I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head, and joy like a pearl, attends the needs...
“The real story of the scramble for Africa is presented…as having started some time around 1830 AD when France invaded Cueta, the most northern part of Morocco closest to what will...
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…
