No Black history library or book collection is complete without a work by Dr. Na’im Akbar. In addition...
“I am a thinker, writer, activist, creative being, man, dad, husband, grandpop, and son. But just to keep...
Miriam Makeba, lovingly known as Mama Africa, was a South African singer, freedom fighter, and cultural worker who turned her entire life into a testimony against apartheid and colonialism. Born Zenzile Miriam Makeba...
Marimba Ani stands as one of the most incisive and fearless architects of African-centered thought. As a scholar-activist,...
I had to go and see Equalizer 2 with Denzel Washington. I have been a fan of Denzel since he...
The following quotes are adapted from The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson, widely recognised as the Father of Black History. I have modernised the language to make it...
The South African freedom fighter, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, affectionately known as the “Mother of the Nation,” was an international...
“Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, ’cause they knew death was better...
Ever since reading Sobonfu Somé’s book, The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient Teachings in the Ways of Relationship—a source for many of the quotes below—I have admired her deeply. The book’s simplicity...
Wilma Rudolph was an African American athlete who made history in the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome,...
1. “The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.” 2. I feel that I am...
Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso, murdered in a coup, aged 37, was the leader of the Burkinabe Revolution. Sankara, a pan-Africanist, transformed the French annexed land of Upper Volta into...
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…
