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No Black history library or book collection is complete without a work by Dr. Na’im Akbar. In addition...

Miriam Makeba, lovingly known as Mama Africa, was a South African singer, freedom fighter, and cultural worker who turned her...

Marimba Ani stands as one of the most incisive and fearless architects of African-centered thought. As a scholar-activist, she transformed anthropology from a weapon of Eurocentric observation into a tool of...

You so black You so black When you smile, the stars come out You so black When you...

The ‘proverbs’ below are drawn from Egyptian Yoga: The Philosophy of Enlightenment by Muata Ashby. The book explores...

“All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy, and they necessitate that of the...

Langston Hughes was an African-American poet and social activist who became the leader of the Harlem Renaissance in...

George Washington Carver (1864 – January 5, 1943) was an African American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor, who...

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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…

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