Biographie

Moune de Rivel, born Cécile Jean-Louis, was one of the first voices to bring créolité to the stage with rigor and elegance. From New...

We think we know Rosa Parks. A woman, a bus, a refusal. But behind this gesture, turned into myth, lies a life of struggle,...

Marie Rose Cavelan is not a convenient figure. Mixed-race, free, a slave owner, and co-instigator of an anti-British insurrection in Grenada in 1795, she...

Branded with a hot iron, exiled, and later one of the most lucid political thinkers of his century, Cyrille Bissette was a major actor...

Ottobah Cugoano, a former African slave who became an intellectual in London, was one of the earliest Black voices of British abolitionism in the...

A prominent figure of revolutionary Black struggle in the United States, exiled in Cuba for over forty years, Assata Shakur passed away on September...

Born in 1944 in Birmingham, at the heart of segregated America, Angela Davis made her life into a school of resistance. A Marxist philosopher,...

On November 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges, six years old, became the first African American child to integrate William Frantz School in New Orleans. Escorted...

Captured at thirteen on the coasts of Senegal, Anta Madjiguène Ndiaye, daughter of a Wolof chief, was deported to Cuba and then to Florida....