When I first wrote “Identity of She,” I believed the questions I carried about the “first” mother in...
My friendthey don’t careif you’re an individualista leftist a rightista shithead or a snakeThey will try to exploit...
“It is up to the living to keep in touch with the dead. Man’s power don’t end with death. We just move on to another place. A place where we go...
The Bronze Woman, which was unveiled on October 8, 2008, in the south London town of Stockwell at...
Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, “even if you are not...
Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) was a prolific and widely respected African-American poet. Clifton was the first author to have two books of poetry chosen as finalists...
Maya Angelou lived many lives in her 86 years. She was an author, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage...
i am accused of tending to the pastas if i made it,as if i sculpted itwith my own...
My favourite anthology is Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, and I am fortunate to have a signed hardback copy in my collection. Busby opened her introduction with Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem...
After four score years of freedomOur so-called leaders sayThe the race has made great progressAnd we face the...
I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in...
Where have you gone with your confident walk with your crooked smile why did you leave me when you took your laughter and departed are you aware that with you went...
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…
