Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
Alonso de Illescas was an Afro‑Ecuadorian leader and an icon for people of African descent in Ecuador. A...
George Robert Carruthers was an African American space physicist and engineer, and a pioneer in ultraviolet astronomy. His...
David Walker was a Black abolitionist, writer, and political activist whose uncompromising attack on the Maafa made him one of the most consequential voices of the early nineteenth-century freedom struggle in...
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century’s most widely read African American writers and a...
LLearie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, Kt., was a West Indian cricket legend, barrister, author, broadcast journalist, and political...
Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” one of the most militant and enduring poems associated with the Harlem Renaissance. McKay, a...
Alberta Christine Williams King was the mother of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the wife of the Rev....
Jesse Owens achieved feats that made him one of the most celebrated track-and-field athletes of the twentieth century....
Georgia Douglas Johnson was among the earliest African American women poets to gain widespread recognition and became one of the most prominent Black women writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Although...
Marie Laveau is the most renowned Voodoo figure in the history of North America. For several decades she...
Horace King was an African American architect, engineer, master carpenter, and bridge builder. He became one of the...
Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend an all Euro-American public elementary school in the American South. Bridges was six years old and had to be escorted to class...
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…
