Juanita Moore was an Oscar-nominated African-American actress, best known for her starring role in the remake of Imitation...
Fanny Jackson Coppin was an African-American educator and missionary and a lifelong advocate for female higher education. Fanny...
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a Black Canadian-American educator, abolitionist, writer, newspaper publisher, army recruiter, suffragist, and legal scholar. In 1853, she founded The Provincial Freeman, making her the first Black...
“If one can, anyone can, all you gotta do is try” Faith Ringgold was an American painter, writer,...
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century’s most widely read African American writers and a...
Alberta Christine Williams King was the mother of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the wife of the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., and a major figure in the religious, family, and...
Georgia Douglas Johnson was among the earliest African American women poets to gain widespread recognition and became one...
Marie Laveau is the most renowned Voodoo figure in the history of North America. For several decades she...
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]ary Francis Hill Coley (August 15, 1900 – March 1966) was an African American lay midwife who is best known for being featured in a documentary film used to train...
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was a prominent African American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and...
“Only the BLACK WOMAN can say when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my...
Marie Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur (1758-August 8, 1858 ), was the Empress of Haiti (1804-1806) as the spouse of Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Félicité was born in Léogane to a poor but free...
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…
