Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
“There was a militarily gifted and exceptionally daring woman in the front line: Carlota, of Lucumbi origin…” In...
Patricia E. Bath discovered and invented the Laserphaco Probe, a new device for cataract surgery. Bath is also...
Fredrick L. McGhee was a Black civil rights activist and one of America’s first African American lawyers. McGhee was born on October 28, 1861, in Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Abraham McGhee and...
Mahalia Jackson was gospel music’s first superstar and is considered the greatest gospel singer ever to live. She...
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, the mother of musical legend, Fela Kuti, was also a legend, herself. Known as the Lioness...
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....
James Alan Bland was an African-American musician and composer who was known as The World’s Greatest Minstrel Man....
Bobby Seale is an African-American political activist and co-founder and national chairman of the Black Panther Party. The...
George Junius Stinney, Jr. was the youngest person to be executed in the US in the 20th century when he was sent to the electric chair in 1944. He was fourteen...
Celia Cruz was a Black Cuban and Cuban American singer whose extraordinary career made her one of the...
Juanita Moore was an Oscar-nominated African-American actress, best known for her starring role in the remake of Imitation...
Peter Tosh was the most militant member of the world’s greatest reggae band, The Wailers (1963–1974). Along with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, Tosh created reggae music. He taught Bob Marley...
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…
