Jessie Redmon Fauset was an editor, novelist, poet, essayist, educator, and scholar whose labor helped make the Harlem...
“Thirty years ago, the MOBO Organisation was born out of a desire to create space where there was...
Regina M. Anderson was an African-American librarian, playwright, patron of the arts, and organizer whose quiet labor helped shape Black literary and theatrical modernity. Born on 21 May 1901 in Chicago,...
Marie Selika Williams (c. 1849/1850–20 May 1937) was one of the most accomplished and pathbreaking African American classical...
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry lived only 34 years, yet she reshaped American theater, sharpened the intellectual edge of the...
Catherine Flon holds a revered place in Haitian history as the woman most closely associated with the creation of the first Haitian flag and, by extension, the birth of the world’s...
Moremi Ajasoro was a legendary Yoruba queen whose courage, intelligence, and tragic sacrifice have echoed across centuries. Remembered...
Miriam Makeba, lovingly known as Mama Africa, was a South African singer, freedom fighter, and cultural worker who turned her...
“Her fight is preserved in Brazilian history, and her warrior personality is, to this day, an example for other women.” — Andrade and Lelis (loose translation) In the late sixteenth century, in the...
“The sunshine of her life she gives, To everything around her, Though brief the season that she lives...
Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an African-American poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. Although she never published her own...
“Marie Couvent was the first [Black] woman to set the example of an enlightened charity, and that for a long time she was the only woman to enjoy this distinction is...
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…
