Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was a prominent African American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and...
Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe was a renowned Ghanaian doctor, anthropologist, author, poet, and politician. His research into the use of...
Alex Haley is the celebrated author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). By April 1977 almost two million hardcover copies of the book had been sold and 130...
Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse, who tended to an all-Black army troop named the...
James Arthur Baldwin was an African American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, who is considered to...
Alexandre Dumas is a celebrated French author best known for his historical adventure novels, including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Dumas published works comprise 300 volumes and...
Alice Ruth Moore, educator, author and social activist, was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the...
“One had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a...
“I am a [Black]. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me… I am not [European]. There...
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…
