“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What...
I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head, and joy like a pearl, attends the needs...
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female poet. She was born in West Africa around 1753, before she was kidnapped and sold into the Maafa (slavery) at the tender age...
Gil Scott-Heron was the African American poet, novelist, musician, and songwriter known primarily for his work as a...
Harriet E. Wilson is considered the first female African-American novelist, as well as the first African American of...
Poet João da Cruz e Sousa, (November 24, 1861-March 19, 1898) was the leading figure of the Symbolist movement in Brazil. Called the Cisne Negro (“Black Swan”) by his contemporaries, his...
Frances E.W. Harper was a leading African-American poet and writer. She was also an ardent activist in the...
Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” one of...
Georgia Douglas Johnson was one of the earliest African-American female poets to gain widespread recognition. As part of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Johnson was the most prolific Black woman...
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, activist, radio and television personality and...
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was a prominent African American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and...
Alex Haley is the celebrated author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). By April 1977 almost two million hardcover copies of the book had been sold and 130...
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…
