Biographie

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was one of the major political figures of twentieth-century Nigeria. An educator, activist, and organizer, she led the women’s struggle in Abeokuta...

Marcus Garvey gave Black peoples scattered by slavery, colonization, and migration a simple yet explosive idea: they formed one single political world. Born in...

A major figure in Afro-Brazilian popular devotion, Escrava Anastácia is portrayed with an iron mask over her mouth and a torture collar around her...

The Act of Independence of the Republic of Haiti, written by Louis Boisrond Tonnerre and proclaimed by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, is a powerful manifesto that...

On the occasion of the release of the animated film Allah Is Not Obliged, an adaptation of Ahmadou Kourouma’s cult novel, here is a...

At the end of the 19th century, as European powers competed for Africa, a Congolese chief rose up against French colonial expansion. A respected...

In 1915, after the lynching of President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, U.S. Marines landed in Port-au-Prince and placed Philippe Sudre Dartiguenave at the head of...

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...