What is the Maafa?
April 19, 2026
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed the most effective treatment of leprosy until the...
Marie-Madeleine Lachenais, known as Joute, was called “the President of two Presidents” and is regarded as the most...
Alice Ruth Moore, educator, author and social activist, was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. An African American diarist of the early...
“My name is Assata (“she who struggles”) Olugbala ( “for the people” ) Shakur (“the thankful one”), and...
In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker became the first woman bank president in the United States when she founded...
Millie McCoy and Christine McCoy (July 11, 1851 – October 8, 1912) were African American conjoined twins who went by the stage names “The Carolina Twins“, “The Two-Headed Nightingale” and “The...
[dropcap size=small]L[/dropcap]ucy Terry Prince, known as Lucy Terry, (c. 1730–1821) was brought to Rhode Island from Africa. Her...
Margaret Walker was an African American poet and writer. She began her literary career in the 1930s and...
Gertrude Emily Hicks Bustill Mossell was an African-American author, journalist, and teacher. The daughter of Charles and Emily Bustill, she came from a prominent family. Her great-grandfather, Cyrus Bustill, served in...
Lena Horne was a trailblazing American entertainer whose career as a singer, actress, and dancer stretched across seven...
“We are not there yet. Not yet Uhuru. Uhuru meaning freedom. We see it every day with our...
Ethiopia was once ruled by a mighty Queen who destroyed Axum and its countryside, the churches and Christian monuments, killing thousands in the process. Her campaigns ended both the thousand-year supremacy...
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…
