In her beautiful poem, Ancestral Intelligence, CJ Spears evokes a deeper intelligence rooted in the body, in community,...
My friendthey don’t careif you’re an individualista leftist a rightista shithead or a snakeThey will try to exploit...
“It is up to the living to keep in touch with the dead. Man’s power don’t end with death. We just move on to another place. A place where we go...
Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, “even if you are not...
Tiny bit of humanity, Blessed with your mother’s face, And cursed with your father’s mind. I say cursed...
“I’ve Come to Take You Home” is one of the most significant political poems of the late twentieth century. The poem—an act of restoration and resistance—was written in 1998 by South...
Langston Hughes, considered the unofficial Poet Laureate of African-Americans, was a prolific writer, who published ten volumes of...
Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) was a prolific and widely respected African-American poet. Clifton...
Maya Angelou lived many lives in her 86 years. She was an author, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, singer, and civil rights activist. However, she will...
i am accused of tending to the pastas if i made it,as if i sculpted itwith my own...
After four score years of freedomOur so-called leaders sayThe the race has made great progressAnd we face the...
If the muse were mine to tempt it And my feeble voice were strong, If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. I would sing a...
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…
