Édouard Glissant was one of the great Caribbean writers and thinkers of the twentieth century: a Martinican poet,...
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a Black Canadian-American educator, abolitionist, writer, newspaper publisher, army recruiter, suffragist, and legal...
“It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage.” William Still was an African American abolitionist, Underground Railroad conductor, writer,...
David Walker was a Black abolitionist, writer, and political activist whose uncompromising attack on the Maafa made him...
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century’s most widely read African American writers and a...
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was a prominent African American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor. Hopkins was one of the first writers to introduce racial and social...
Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe was a renowned Ghanaian doctor, anthropologist, author, poet, and politician. His research into the use of...
Olaudah Equiano was born an Igbo around 1745, in what is now eastern Nigeria. He came from a...
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…
