Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Black Women’s History
Three captive women were among the approximately 155 people accused of witchcraft in the infamous Salem witch trials...
Gertrude Emily Hicks Bustill Mossell was an African-American author, journalist, and teacher. The daughter of Charles and Emily...
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...
Lena Horne was a trailblazing American entertainer whose career as a singer, actress, and dancer stretched across seven...
Angelina Weld Grimké was an African-American poet and playwright, an important forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance. “I oft have...
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Ethiopia was once ruled by a mighty Queen who destroyed Axum and its countryside, the churches and Christian...
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...
“…the contact of her presence…was irresistible….” Plutarch on Cleopatra. “More nonsense has been written about Cleopatra than about...
Dorothy Irene Height was an African-American activist, administrator and educator, who dedicated her life to seeing racial and women’s equality in the United States. She was a leader in addressing the...
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…
