Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry lived only 34 years, yet she reshaped American theater, sharpened the intellectual edge of the...
Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881–1922) was a distinguished Brazilian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer renowned for his...
How will I ever forget you, magic leaf Tormented as I am by your taunts The prodding jeers and the branding iron You command, “[Captive], sing for my offspring!” Burdening me...
Edward Kamau Brathwaite — born Lawson Edward Brathwaite on May 11, 1930 — was a Barbadian poet, historian,...
Jayne Cortez (born Sallie Jayne Richardson) was a visionary African American poet, performer, and cultural activist whose fierce,...
Rudolph Fisher (1897–1934) was a physician, radiologist, writer, musician, and orator whose remarkable, though brief, life had a profound impact on the Harlem Renaissance and African American literary and intellectual history....
“I am a thinker, writer, activist, creative being, man, dad, husband, grandpop, and son. But just to keep...
Jacques Stephen Alexis (1922–1961) was a Haitian novelist, neurologist, and Marxist political activist whose life and work came...
This summer, I embarked on a 21-day trip to Ghana, motivated by my deep admiration for Ottobah Cugoano, an important historical figure whose legacy is often overlooked. Before my visit, I...
My friendthey don’t careif you’re an individualista leftist a rightista shithead or a snakeThey will try to exploit...
Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an African-American poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. Although she never published her own...
“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...
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…
