Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
Otis Redding is considered one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a...
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...
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, activist, radio and television personality and...
Jacob Lawrence was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, widely renowned for his modernist...
“We were here at least 56,000 years ago; Africans came over. The Mongolians don’t come until 2,600 BC and they shared their blood with the Africans and their children became the...
Claudette Colvin was a pioneering civil rights activist in Alabama during the 1950s. On March 2, 1955, at...
Lewis H. Latimer is considered one of the most important Black inventors of all time, not only for...
[dropcap size=small]C[/dropcap]harles Hamilton Houston one of the most important civil rights attorneys in American history. Known as “The Man Who Killed Jim Crow”, he played a role in nearly every civil...
Josephine Silone Yates was an African American teacher, journalist and clubwoman, who was the first African American certified...
James Forten was an African American abolitionist, businessman and Black leader in pre-Civil War Philadelphia. Forten was born...
Walter S. McAfee was an African-American scientist and astronomer, notable for participating in the world’s first lunar radar echo experiments with Project Diana. Walter McAfee, was born on September 2, 1914,...
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…
