When You Have Emptied Our Calabashes by Iyamide Hazeley
When you have emptied our calabashes into your porcelain bowls overflowing the surplus spilling and seeping into foreign soil when you have cleaved the heads
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Belly Song by Etheridge Knight
1And I and I / must admitthat the sea in youhas sung / to the sea / in meand I and I / must admitthat
Walter Moses Burton: The first Black elected sheriff in the United States
Walter Moses Burton holds the distinction of being the first Black elected sheriff in the United States. Burton was also a State Senator in Texas.
New York Maafa Uprising of 1712
In the firelit streets, captive Africans move as one—armed, resolute, and unbowed—turning a city built on their bondage into a battlefield for freedom.
Afrofuturism: An Interview with Ytasha L. Womack
Ytasha L. Womack is the author, filmmaker, dancer and innovator whose book Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi and Fantasy explores black sci fi culture, bleeks, black
Robert Smalls: Civil War Hero
Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American who distinguished himself as a national war hero, statesman and civil-rights leader in the Reconstruction South, serving five terms in
Booker T. Washington: The African-American Leader who came “Up From Slavery”
[dropcap size=small]B[/dropcap]ooker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American leader and educator. Washington came up from a background of poverty to become the most influential Black educator of the
Ten Powerful Quotes by Booker T. Washington
“Character, not circumstance, makes the person.” “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by
The Art of Michael Anthony Brown
“Art at its best can heal. It can inspire the human spirit to soar new heights for the greater good.” ~Michael Anthony Brown Michael Anthony
Gordon – “The Scourged Back”
Gordon was an enslaved African-American who became an iconic figure during the Civil War, in exposing the brutality of the Maafa ( Atlantic slavery). A