Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
George Bonga was a fur trader of African-American and Native American heritage, and one of the first African...
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]ary Ellen Pleasant was a 19th-century African American entrepreneur who used her fortune to further the abolitionist...
“My idea, my belief, my intention is for the United States of America to be known as a UNITED States,” Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson is an African American civil rights activist,...
Archibald Henry Grimké was a leading African-American intellectual, activist, and author on racial equality in early 20th Century...
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. (ONH) was a Jamaican-born Black nationalist who created a ‘Back to Africa’ movement in...
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...
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]onroe Nathan Work was a sociologist who founded the Department of Records and Research at the Tuskegee...
Henrietta Vinton Davis was a Shakespearean actor and public speaker. She was proclaimed by Marcus Garvey to be “the greatest woman of the [African] race”. Davis has come to be considered...
Bridget “Biddy” Mason was an African-American nurse and a Californian real-estate entrepreneur and notable philanthropist. Mason who was...
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]ary Francis Hill Coley (August 15, 1900 – March 1966) was an African American lay midwife who...
Dr. Molefi Kete Asante is one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars. Asante is known for his writings on Afrocentricity, a school of thought that has influenced the fields of sociology,...
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…
