Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
Marcelino dos Santos was a principal intellectual and political architect of Mozambique’s liberation movement. As a poet, organizer,...
António Agostinho Neto was the first president of independent Angola. He was a physician trained in Portugal, a...
Alain LeRoy Locke was one of the most consequential intellectual figures in twentieth-century American cultural life: a philosopher of value, teacher, editor, critic, patron, and advocate for Black artistic achievement. Often...
“I have strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.” Mary Edmonia Lewis, known in childhood...
Job Maseko stands out as one of the most remarkable South African figures of the Second World War—a...
“I write to tell the truth about the Black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a Black woman’s view of the world… The most fundamental truth to...
Audrey Layne Jeffers was one of the most consequential social reformers of twentieth-century Trinidad and Tobago: a pioneering...
Tony Martin was a Trinidad and Tobago-born historian, author, educator, publisher, and Pan-African activist whose scholarly life was...
Samuel “Sam” Sharpe was one of the principal leaders of the Baptist War, the largest uprising of captive people (Xaymacans) in Jamaican history and the Caribbean territories under British oppression. Also...
Richard Wright occupies a commanding place in twentieth-century American and African American letters. Novelist, memoirist, essayist, short-story writer,...
Cassandra Wilson was one of the most original vocal artists in American music: a jazz singer, songwriter, guitarist,...
Jessie Redmon Fauset was an editor, novelist, poet, essayist, educator, and scholar whose labor helped make the Harlem Renaissance possible. Though she was long remembered chiefly as an encourager of other...
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…
