Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Sarah Forbes Bonetta—born Omoba Aina, or Ina, around 1843—lived a life shaped by extraordinary rupture, displacement, intellect, and...
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 none — to recognise, celebrate and elevate Black music and culture.” Kanya King...
Regina M. Anderson was an African-American librarian, playwright, patron of the arts, and organizer whose quiet labor helped...
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 Civil Rights Movement, and left behind a body of work that continues to...
Catherine Flon holds a revered place in Haitian history as the woman most closely associated with the creation...
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 entire life into a testimony against apartheid and colonialism. Born Zenzile Miriam Makeba...
“Her fight is preserved in Brazilian history, and her warrior personality is, to this day, an example for...
“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 volume of poetry, she was one of the most revered poets of her...
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…
