For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and...
There is a searing, uncompromising anger that runs through the work of Haitian writer and revolutionary Jacques Roumain,...
listen children keep this in the place you have for keeping always keep it all ways we have never hated black listen we have been ashamed hopeless tired mad but always...
When you have emptied our calabashes into your porcelain bowls overflowing the surplus spilling and seeping into foreign...
Etheridge Knight’s poem “Belly Song” appears in his 1973 collection Belly Song and Other Poems, published after his release from prison and...
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you?...
You Are …the honey in my Cerassie tea …the Ackee with my Saltfish …the Rum in my Coke...
Amiri Baraka wrote the poem Somebody Blew Up America about the September 11th Attacks. The poem was explicit...
How say that by law we may torture and chase A woman whose crime is the hue of her face? – With her step on the ice, and her arm on...
I Held You in the Square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile. The dreams I...
I know brokers of diamond dreams, who copulate in mines when mates are in fetters. I know IMF;...
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…
