No Black history library or book collection is complete without a work by Dr. Na’im Akbar. In addition...
Miriam Makeba, lovingly known as Mama Africa, was a South African singer, freedom fighter, and cultural worker who turned her...
Langston Hughes was an African-American poet and social activist who became the leader of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. Born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902, Hughes was an...
George Washington Carver (1864 – January 5, 1943) was an African American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor, who...
The following quotes are adapted from The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson, widely recognised as...
The South African freedom fighter, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, affectionately known as the “Mother of the Nation,” was an international symbol of resistance to apartheid. Winnie’s Khoza name ‘Nomzamo’ has been variously translated...
“Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, ’cause they knew death was better...
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (born Hubert Gerold Brown; October 4, 1943 – November 23, 2025), also known as H....
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...
“No spring changes the desert. The desert remains; the spring runs dry. Not one spring, not a thousand...
Robert Nesta Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and musician. Marley...
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” “We have inherited a fear of memories of...
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…
