Black Women’s History
Catherine Flon holds a revered place in Haitian history as the woman most closely associated with the creation...
“Whatever path we seem to take, it always has one end: a racist bullet. A racist bullet murdered...
Jayne Cortez (born Sallie Jayne Richardson) was a visionary African American poet, performer, and cultural activist whose fierce, music‑driven poetics made her a defining voice of the Black Arts Movement and...
Chinwe Ifeoma Chukwuogo-Roy MBE (1952–2012) was a distinguished Nigerian-British visual artist who gained international recognition for her portraiture,...
Moremi Ajasoro was a legendary Yoruba queen whose courage, intelligence, and tragic sacrifice have echoed across centuries. Remembered...
“Her fight is preserved in Brazilian history, and her warrior personality is, to this day, an example for other women.” — Andrade and Lelis (loose translation) In the late sixteenth century, in the...
Three African‑Caribbean women on St. Croix stood at the forefront of a mass insurrection against the Danish government,...
Mary Turner was a young African-American woman lynched on May 19, 1918, near Valdosta, Georgia, in a horrific...
Charity Still—born Sidney Steel—was the mother of abolitionist William Still and a foundational figure in the Still family’s history of resistance. She liberated herself from the Maafa twice. During her first...
“Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is...
Anna Mac Clarke was the first African American woman in the U.S. Army to command an otherwise all‑white...
Elizabeth Jennings Graham (born Elizabeth Jennings, c. late 1820s–June 5, 1901) was a Black schoolteacher, church organist, and civil-rights pioneer in New York City. More than a century before Rosa Parks’s...
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…
