“I fought all my life to bring about change, to correct the injustices and the inequities in the...
“Only the BLACK WOMAN can say when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my...
“Africa will furnish a development of civilization which the world has never yet witnessed. Its great peculiarity will be its mortal element.” Edward Wilmot Blyden was a Liberian educator, writer, diplomat, and...
“Musicians have always educated people through music, you know even though now a days a lot of music...
“We desire to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. But in the past we’ve had no straps, and...
Charles L. Reason was an African American mathematician, linguist, educator, and abolitionist. In 1849 he became the first African American to hold a regular professorship at a predominantly Euro-American college in...
“A normal black child, having grown up in a normal family, will become abnormal at the slightest...
“An African…has an undeniable right to his Liberty.” Lemuel Haynes was an influential African-American religious leader who argued...
“One had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap.” Ida B. Wells was a journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching...
“My name is Assata (“she who struggles”) Olugbala ( “for the people” ) Shakur (“the thankful one”), and...
Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Babatunde Soyinka, born 13 July 1934, is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was the...
“A free black mind is a concealed weapon!” Samuel Greenlee, Jr. was an African-American novelist, poet, screenwriter, journalist, teacher, and talk show host, best known for his novel The Spook Who...
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…
