History

Harriet Tubman is you, me, and us, for a heroine sleeps within every Black woman, wherever she may be and whatever her time. Queens and...

After the 11th century BCE, a kingdom developed around the city of Napata in Sudan. In the 8th century BCE, by launching a holy...

Around 300 BCE, the Kingdom of Kush permanently moved its royal necropolis from Napata to Meroë. This change of site was probably due to...

The Bambaras (Bambara: bamanan; plural, Bamananw, Bamana or Banmana) are a Mandingue people of the Sahelian West Africa, mainly settled in Mali. They formed...

He was a slave, a strategist, a republican, a governor; then a prisoner of the Republic he had served. Toussaint Louverture is not a...

Dive into the history of Mamie and Kenneth Clark’s “doll test,” a pioneering study revealing the impact of racism on self-perception among African American...

In 1886, John Pemberton, an American pharmacist, created the original formula of Coca-Cola. What you may not know is that one of the ingredients...

Contemporary accounts report the privileged nature of women’s status in the medieval West African Empire of Mali. Ibn Battuta and the status of women in...

Discover how Muhammad al-Mahdi rallied followers and became an influential missionary in nineteenth-century Sudan. The heroic journey of Muhammad al-Mahdi From the first half of the...