Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
Anthony Burns (31 May 1834 – 17 July 1862) was a central figure in one of the most...
Rei Amador, also known as the “General Captain of War” and “King Amador,” is a central figure in...
William Harrison “Bones” Dillard was an African‑American Olympic track and field athlete. Dillard was the finest hurdler of his era and one of just three male athletes to win Olympic titles...
Viola Desmond was a Black Nova Scotian businesswoman and civil-rights pioneer whose 1946 challenge to segregation at the...
William Henry Johnson emerged from his participation in the First World War as one of the most extraordinary...
Kimpa Vita, also known as Dona Beatriz, was a Kongo prophetess and the founder of Antonianism, a Christian movement that sought to restore the spiritual and political unity of the Kingdom of...
Lena Horne was a trailblazing American entertainer whose career as a singer, actress, and dancer stretched across seven...
Born into the Maafa (Atlantic trafficking and captivity) in the early 1770s, York was the only African-descended member...
Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856–1915) made education the foundation of a far-reaching campaign for Black advancement. An educator, institution-builder, writer, and political strategist, he developed Tuskegee Institute in Alabama into an internationally...
Vicente Guerrero was one of the principal military leaders of Mexico’s struggle for independence and the country’s second...
Olaudah Equiano was born an Igbo around 1745, in what is now eastern Nigeria. He came from a...
“We are not there yet. Not yet Uhuru. Uhuru meaning freedom. We see it every day with our children at school. The trials and tribulation that they go through….with African Canadian...
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…
