Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, born Hubert Gerold Brown and widely known during the 1960s as H. Rap Brown, was...
The arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury on 22 June 1948 stands as a defining moment in...
Nicolás Guillén Landrián was one of the most original filmmakers of the Cuban Revolution’s first decades. An Afro-Cuban documentarian, painter, poet, and experimental artist, he created a cinema of rupture: restless,...
Samora Moisés Machel stands as one of the twentieth century’s most inspiring and influential African leaders—a visionary guerrilla...
“Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.” Saint Cyprian of Carthage—bishop, theologian,...
Cyprian Ekwensi was a pioneering Nigerian author, pharmacist, broadcaster, and public servant. Widely regarded as a chronicler of Nigerian city life and a foundational figure in modern African literature, he published...
bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, was one of the most influential Black feminist thinkers, cultural critics, educators,...
Paul Niger was a Guadeloupean poet, novelist, colonial administrator, and anticolonial organizer whose brief but impactful life bridged...
Édouard Glissant was one of the great Caribbean writers and thinkers of the twentieth century: a Martinican poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, philosopher, editor, teacher, and anti-colonial activist whose work altered how...
John Sayers Orr—known in the streets and newspapers of his day as “the Angel Gabriel”—deserves to be remembered...
Sarah Forbes Bonetta—born Omoba Aina, or Ina, around 1843—lived a life shaped by extraordinary rupture, displacement, intellect, and...
‘Figures like Amílcar Cabral… helped us to imagine the horizons of freedom in far broader terms than were available to us through what we now call “civil rights discourse.“’ — Angela...
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…
