Biographie

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....

In a now-legendary photograph, he appears nailed to a door, the Haitian flag draped over his head. In 1919, the American marines thought they...

Marie Rose Cavelan is not an easy figure. Mixed-race, free, a slaveowner, co-instigator of an anti-British insurrection in Grenada in 1795, she embodies the...

Vincent Ogé, often relegated to the margins of the Haitian Revolution, was nevertheless one of the first to challenge the colonial racial order. A...