Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
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David Harold Blackwell (April 24, 1919 – July 8, 2010) was an American statistician and mathematician whose groundbreaking...
Regina M. Anderson was an African-American librarian, playwright, patron of the arts, and organizer whose quiet labor helped...
“I am Toussaint Louverture; perhaps my name has made itself known to you. I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint‑Domingue. I am working to make...
Marie Selika Williams (c. 1849/1850–20 May 1937) was one of the most accomplished and pathbreaking African American classical...
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry lived only 34 years, yet she reshaped American theater, sharpened the intellectual edge of the...
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Queen Charlotte’s racial identity remains one of the most intensely debated topics in modern British royal historiography. The...
Catherine Flon holds a revered place in Haitian history as the woman most closely associated with the creation...
John Conyers Jr. (1929–2019) was the longest-serving African American in congressional history. He was a central architect of Black political power in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century United States. Serving...
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…
