What is the Maafa?
April 19, 2026
Tupac Amaru Shakur, born Lesane Parish Crooks on June 16, 1971, was an American rapper, actor, poet, and...
Jacques Jean-Baptiste Roumain was born on 4 June 1907 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, into an old and affluent family...
Maurice Rupert Bishop (1944–1983) was a charismatic revolutionary who served as Prime Minister of Grenada from 1979 until his assassination in 1983. After overthrowing the oppressive Eric Gairy regime, Bishop launched...
Miles Davis (1926–1991) was an American trumpeter, composer, and bandleader widely regarded as one of the most influential...
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson (1878–1949) was a pioneering African American tap dancer, actor, and singer who rose to become...
Ryan Coogler’s birth chart features a Yod, a rare astrological configuration often called the “finger of fate” or “finger of God.” In astrology, a Yod signals a powerful sense of destiny...
Sun Ra was a visionary American jazz composer and bandleader celebrated for his pioneering role in the Afrofuturism...
Regina M. Anderson was an African-American librarian, playwright, patron of the arts, and organizer whose quiet labor helped...
Anna Mac Clarke was the first African American woman in the U.S. Army to command an otherwise all‑white unit while the military was still formally segregated. She joined the Women’s Army...
Josiah Henson, was a spiritual leader, author and founder of the Black community settlement at Dawn in Ontario,...
“Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it,...
Lena Baker, an African American maid, was executed by the State of Georgia in 1945 for the murder of her employer, Ernest Knight, the previous year. Knight, an abusive and violent...
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…
