Born Horace Julian Bond on January 14, 1940, in Nashville, Tennessee, Julian Bond was a scholar, poet, former...
Ossie Davis was one of the most recognized and influential African American performers and activists of the late...
Maria W. Stewart, essayist, teacher, and political activist, is thought to be the first woman in America and the first African-American woman to make public lectures. Stewart is known for four...
Activist Jimmie Lee Jackson is remembered for his tragic death at 26 years old at the hands of...
Fredrick L. McGhee was a Black civil rights activist and one of America’s first African American lawyers. McGhee...
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, the mother of musical legend, Fela Kuti, was also a legend, herself. Known as the Lioness of Lisabi, she was a Nigerian teacher, political campaigner, and women’s rights activist,...
Bobby Seale is an African-American political activist and co-founder and national chairman of the Black Panther Party. The...
Dick Gregory is the renowned comedian, actor, and civil rights activist (born October 12, 1932) who uses his...
“One day I know the struggle will change. There’s got to be a change—not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the...
David Walker was an outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-Maafa (Atlantic slavery) activist. In 1829, while living in Boston,...
George Wells Parker was an African-American political activist and historian who co-founded the Hamitic League of the World,...
Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” one of the most militant and enduring poems associated with the Harlem Renaissance. McKay, a...
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…
