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...
For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees, praying their prayers nightly to an unknown god, bending their knees humbly...
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...
When you have emptied our calabashes into your porcelain bowls overflowing the surplus spilling and seeping into foreign soil when you have cleaved the heads of our young and engraved upon...
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...
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad...
Amiri Baraka wrote the poem Somebody Blew Up America about the September 11th Attacks. The poem was explicit...
How say that by law we may torture and chase A woman whose crime is the hue of...
for Quincy T. Troupe Sr. father, it was an honor to be there, in the dugout with you, the glory of great black men swinging their lives as bats, at tiny...
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…
