Rosa Parks, often honored as “The First Lady of Civil Rights” and “The Mother of the Freedom Movement,” occupies a central place...
Henry Blair was the second documented African-American inventor to be issued a patent by the United States Patent...
John Stewart Rock was the first Black person to be admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United State. Rock was an eloquent African American activist and master...
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (born Hubert Gerold Brown; October 4, 1943 – November 23, 2025), also known as H....
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress. With his moderate political...
George Lester Jackson was an African-American political revolutionary, prisoners’ rights activist, author, a member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family while incarcerated. His life story...
Venture Smith, was the son of a royal family, who was kidnapped from his homeland in Africa as...
“But what of black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought...
Huey P. Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was an African American activist best known for founding the Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale in 1966. The organisation was...
“Our purpose in life is to leave a legacy for our children and our children’s children. For this...
“It is the responsibility of every adult to know their history and culture, to preserve it and then...
“No spring changes the desert. The desert remains; the spring runs dry. Not one spring, not a thousand springs will change the desert.” ~Ayi Aweh Armah I love Kwame Ture. In...
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…
