
“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What...
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century’s most widely read African American writers and a...
Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” one of the most militant and enduring poems associated with the Harlem Renaissance. McKay, a...
Georgia Douglas Johnson was among the earliest African American women poets to gain widespread recognition and became one...
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was a prominent African American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and...
June Jordan was a Jamaican American poet, essayist, journalist, playwright, librettist, teacher, and activist whose writing joined lyrical intensity with a fierce commitment to justice. Often called the “Poet of the...
Ytasha L. Womack is the author, filmmaker, dancer and innovator whose book Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci...
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…













