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Speech by Aimé Césaire at the First World Festival of Negro Arts

Speech delivered by Aimé Césaire in Dakar, on April 6, 1966, as part of the “Colloquium on Art in the Life of the People,”...

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz: black blood in the British royal family

African blood in Western royalty has been present in several European countries since the 16th century. This is the case of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz,...

Juan Garrido, the most famous of the Black conquistadors

Juan Garrido was a Black conquistador who, in the first half of the 16th century, took part in the conquest of present-day Puerto Rico,...

Alessandro de’ Medici, Black and first duke of Florence

The Medici are known as a powerful family of rulers who governed Florence between the 15th and 17th centuries. They notably enabled the emergence...

The Kingdom of Napata (from the 8th century to the 4th century BCE)

The kingdom of Napata is the second period of the Kingdom of Kush, the great rival of pharaonic Egypt located in present-day Sudan. This...

Do you want to know more about Juneteenth?

On June 19, 1865, enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned that they were free. Since then, the Black community in the United States...

Kabyles, black people and ancient egyptians

Like many other traditions, that of a significant Berber ethnic group in Algeria, the Kabyles, closely associates Black African populations with the ancient Egyptians. The...

Political realism: an african invention

The Instructions for Merikare is an Egyptian text nearly 4,000 years old that strikingly anticipates the writings of European authors in history such as...

Legacy museum: from slavery to police violence

The “Legacy Museum,” a museum in Alabama, reveals a dark side of American history, from slavery to police violence. Legacy Museum, a museum of heritageSlavery,...

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