Ntozake Shange centered Black women’s lives in an expansive literary world. A poet, playwright, novelist, and essayist, she...
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 renowned poet whose work expressed anti-colonial longing and the hope for national rebirth,...
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a pioneering African American author who earned international recognition in the late nineteenth and...
In her beautiful poem, Ancestral Intelligence, CJ Spears evokes a deeper intelligence rooted in the body, in community,...
“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What the qualities of life were. With their imagination, they combine two great loves:...
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...
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...
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…
