What is the Maafa?
April 19, 2026
What matters is the renewing and long running kinship. Seeking common mission, willing work, memory, melody, song Marriage...
If you know your woman, know her rhythms, know her ways; if you paying attention to her all...
After four score years of freedomOur so-called leaders sayThe the race has made great progressAnd we face the dawn of dayBut the day is not quite dawningMillions of my peoples standPleading...
If the muse were mine to tempt it And my feeble voice were strong, If my tongue were...
I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in...
Where have you gone with your confident walk with your crooked smile why did you leave me when you took your laughter and departed are you aware that with you went...
For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and...
There is a searing, uncompromising anger that runs through the work of Haitian writer and revolutionary Jacques Roumain,...
listen children keep this in the place you have for keeping always keep it all ways we have never hated black listen we have been ashamed hopeless tired mad but always...
When you have emptied our calabashes into your porcelain bowls overflowing the surplus spilling and seeping into foreign...
Etheridge Knight’s poem “Belly Song” appears in his 1973 collection Belly Song and Other Poems, published after his release from prison and...
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you?...
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…
