Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
“We were here at least 56,000 years ago; Africans came over. The Mongolians don’t come until 2,600 BC...
“You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution. You can jail a liberation fighter, but...
Runoko Rashidi was an African American historian, anthropologist and public lecturer, and one of the world’s leading authorities on the African presence in Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. For more...
“Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is today all but forgotten in the country of his birth. The works of this talented...
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was a prominent African American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and...
Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe was a renowned Ghanaian doctor, anthropologist, author, poet, and politician. His research into the use of the Abochi drug against human parasites is widely reported in Ghanaian and Ewe sources and...
Ronald Moody (12 August 1900–6 February 1984) was a Jamaican-born modernist sculptor, writer, broadcaster, and trained dentist. Although...
Thomas Nelson Baker Sr. (1860–1941) was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in philosophy (1903, Yale...
Matthew Alexander Henson was a pioneering African American Arctic explorer whose seamanship, craftsmanship, and mastery of polar travel helped make Robert E. Peary’s expeditions possible. On April 6, 1909, he was...
Marie Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur (1758-August 8, 1858 ), was the Empress of Haiti (1804-1806) as the spouse...
James Peters was the first Black man to play rugby union for England. Peters was born on 7...
Bill Richmond was an American-born, British-based bare-knuckle boxer who rose from captivity to become one of Britain’s earliest Black sporting celebrities. Celebrated for his intelligence, quick hands, and elusive footwork, 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…
