History

Often reduced to a slave uprising, the Haitian Revolution was in fact a political, military, and cultural war of unprecedented magnitude. From 1791 to...

Little known to the general public, the Siddi community—Africans settled in India and Pakistan for over five centuries—reveals a long-overlooked chapter of Afro-Asian history,...

On July 14, 1903, in Fort-Crampel, a Black man was executed with dynamite by two French colonial agents. This was not a blunder, but...

Long relegated to the fringes of legend, the Black pirates of the 18th century were far more than forgotten buccaneers. Fugitives from slavery and...

In May 1803, on the shores of Georgia, a group of Africans reduced to slavery chose to walk into the water rather than live...

At a time when African founding narratives struggle to be heard amid the tumult of global history, the Mande Charter (proclaimed in the 13th...

The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) is the professional women’s basketball league in the United States, created in 1996 with the support of the...

Tippu Tip, a 19th-century Black trader, was one of the greatest slave merchants in African history. His path—marked by a commercial empire, colonial complicity,...

Under the suffocating canopy of Southern slavery, Denmark Vesey—a free man and preacher—orchestrated a thwarted insurrection that still haunts American history. Behind secret trials,...