History

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,...

She was a horsewoman, a warrior, and the mother of an empire. But who was Yennenga, really? Straddling the line between founding myth and...

Modibo Keïta, first president of independent Mali, was far more than a head of state: a trained teacher, committed socialist, and uncompromising pan-Africanist, he...

A prominent figure in 18th-century imperial Ethiopia, Empress Mentewab embodies one of the most complex expressions of female power within a sacralized monarchy. At...

He was a Crow chief, an army scout, a Rocky Mountains explorer — and yet his name has been erased from official accounts. Born...

Before 1848, Black people in France were theoretically free. But between racist laws, exclusions, and discrimination, equality remained an illusion. Free, but never equal: The...

One man, one banner, one amateur video: on March 3, 1991, Rodney King was brutally beaten by Los Angeles police officers. Filmed, the scene...

Militiaman, British colonel, anti-colonial insurgent, political prisoner… Jean Kina embodies one of the most unusual and least-known paths of the Haitian Revolution. This is...

As African independences are being commemorated, one name remains strangely absent from official narratives: that of the Cameroon War. Between 1955 and 1971, a...