Biographie

Born the son of a slave in Georgia, Eugene Bullard found in France the freedom that America denied him. A legionnaire at Verdun, the...

On February 15, 1851, in a federal courtroom in Boston, a man arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act disappears before the eyes of the...

On February 17, 2026, the family of Jesse Jackson announced his death in Chicago at the age of 84. A Baptist pastor, civil rights...

American mathematician born in 1918 in West Virginia, Katherine Johnson was one of the central figures of the United States’ space conquest. First employed...

Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1901–1991) was a Malian writer and ethnologist, and a major defender of African oral traditions. In 1960, at UNESCO, he delivered...

In 1971, at the age of 19, he became the youngest head of state in the world. Son of “Papa Doc,” Jean-Claude Duvalier inherited...

An emblematic figure of the sahelian intellectual golden age, Ahmad Bābā al-Timbuktī was at once a maliki jurist, a political exile, and a defender...

A psychiatrist trained at Howard University, Frances Cress Welsing left a lasting mark on certain Afro-American intellectual currents with The Isis Papers (1991), a...

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...