Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Today is World Bee Day—an opportunity to honor both Blackness and “Beeness”, and to celebrate the long, buzzing...
Can you name ten ships that took your ancestors from Africa to the Americas? No? This question was...
As we approach the final reading of SINNERS, it feels much like bidding farewell to a dear friend. Throughout this journey, I found myself returning again and again to the Elijah...
The number 13 is often regarded as unlucky, associated with skeletons, death, upheaval, and the unknown. However, older...
In my original plan, I intended for this final section of the essay to appear as a single...
Rudolph Fisher’s life was dazzling in its range and tragically brief in its duration. As a physician, radiologist, novelist, short story writer, musician, and orator, Fisher stands as one of the...
African World Heritage Day is an international UNESCO observance, celebrated annually on 5 May, to honor and safeguard...
Earlier in this series, I explored the African three‑world concept of the Living, Ancestors, and Unborn, placing it...
Previously in this series, I introduced SINNERS as a love letter and lament for the Black Atlantic and traced how Maafa history, psychology, and cosmology shape Coogler’s film. I also situated...
No Black history library is complete without the work of Dr. Na’im Akbar. Both a rigorous scholar and...
The Isis Papers: The Keys to Colors by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing remains my favorite book. This remarkable...
Whether you are a long-time supporter or new to Kentake Page, I want to offer a transparent reflection on my recent absence and the evolution that has taken place behind the...
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…
