Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., born on December 18, 1912, in Washington, D.C., was a pioneering pilot, officer, and...
“The whole reason I did games was because people said, ‘You can’t do it.’ I’m one of the...
Gordon Parks (born Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks) was born on November 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kansas. It is recorded that he was stillborn: without a heartbeat, he was declared...
“The legend of the Palmares quilombo and its greatest leader, Zumbi, are central to the history and ongoing...
Savion Glover, born November 19, 1973, in Newark, New Jersey, is an American tap dancer, choreographer, and actor...
William Christopher Handy was an African American composer, bandleader, music publisher, and author whose work helped carry the blues from community performances into an international musical repertoire. Through compositions including “Memphis...
Sarah Jane Woodson Early was an African American educator, author, and temperance organizer whose career connected the classroom...
“Don’t let our history die.” ~Edward Scobie Dr. Edward Vivian Scobie, author of Black Britannia: The History of Blacks...
“There was a militarily gifted and exceptionally daring woman in the front line: Carlota, of Lucumbi origin…” In 1843, Carlota Lucumí, an enslaved African woman, led a major Maafa uprising in...
Patricia E. Bath discovered and invented the Laserphaco Probe, a new device for cataract surgery. Bath is also...
Mahalia Jackson was gospel music’s first superstar and is widely regarded as the greatest gospel singer ever. Entertainer...
Paul Bogle is one of Jamaica’s National Heroes and a central figure in the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865, an uprising and subsequent colonial repression that profoundly altered Jamaica’s political order....
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…
