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Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was an American educator, known as “The First Lady of The Struggle” because of...

Viola Desmond was a Black Nova Scotian businesswoman and civil-rights pioneer whose 1946 challenge to segregation at the...

Kimpa Vita, also known as Dona Beatriz, was a Kongo prophetess and the founder of Antonianism, a Christian movement that sought to restore the spiritual and political unity of the Kingdom of...

Angelina Weld Grimké was an African-American poet and playwright, an important forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance. “I oft have...

Dihya, later remembered as al-Kāhina, was an Amazigh political and military leader associated with the Aurès region of...

[dropcap size=small]N[/dropcap]ehanda Charwe Nyakasikana was a female spiritualist leader from Mashonaland and a key leader in the First Chimurenga uprisings against colonial settlers 1896-1897. She was considered to be the female...

Solitude was born into the Maafa in Guadeloupe around 1772, the daughter of an African woman who was raped...

Janet Harmon Bragg  was an American amateur aviator. She was the first African-American woman to hold a Commercial...

Every day, at the Noir de Rio Museum, hundreds of people venerate an image of a Black woman wearing a mask and collar. They pray… “Anastacia, holy Anastasia, You who were...

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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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