Black Women’s History
Angelina Weld Grimké was an African-American poet and playwright, an important forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance. “I oft have...
“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...
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...
Solitude was born into the Maafa in Guadeloupe around 1772, the daughter of an African woman who was raped aboard a slave ship by a French sailor during the transatlantic crossing. Her...
“…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...
Janet Harmon Bragg was an American amateur aviator. She was the first African-American woman to hold a Commercial Pilot Licence. Janet Harmon was born Jane Nettie Harmonon on March 24, 1907...
Every day, at the Noir de Rio Museum, hundreds of people venerate an image of a Black woman...
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…
