Black Women’s History
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...
Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend an all Euro-American public elementary school in the American...
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was a prominent African American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and...
Marie Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur (1758-August 8, 1858 ), was the Empress of Haiti (1804-1806) as the spouse of Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Félicité was born in Léogane to a poor but free...
Henrietta Lacks, known as the Mother of Modern Science, is an African-American woman whose cancer cells became the...
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 politically powerful woman in the history of Haiti before the introduction of women’s...
Viola Desmond was a Black Nova Scotian businesswoman and civil-rights pioneer whose 1946 challenge to segregation at the...
Three captive women were among the approximately 155 people accused of witchcraft in the infamous Salem witch trials...
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...
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…
