Black Women’s History
“There was a militarily gifted and exceptionally daring woman in the front line: Carlota, of Lucumbi origin…” In...
Patricia E. Bath discovered and invented the Laserphaco Probe, a new device for cataract surgery. Bath is also the first Black woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical purpose....
Celia Cruz was a Black Cuban and Cuban American singer whose extraordinary career made her one of the...
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a Black Canadian-American educator, abolitionist, writer, newspaper publisher, army recruiter, suffragist, and legal...
“If one can, anyone can, all you gotta do is try” Faith Ringgold was an American painter, writer, educator, sculptor, performance artist, and activist best known for her painted story quilts....
“One day I know the struggle will change. There’s got to be a change—not only for Mississippi, not...
Sanité Bélair (born Suzanne Bélair), was a Haitian freedom fighter and revolutionary during the Haitian Revolution. Sanité, whom...
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century’s most widely read African American writers and a formidable public intellectual. A poet, novelist, essayist, lecturer, abolitionist, suffragist, temperance worker, and...
Alberta Christine Williams King was the mother of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the wife of the Rev....
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 held New Orleans spellbound, as her occult powers became legendary. The crypt where...
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…
