History

For a long time, they were silenced, erased from textbooks, and relegated to the margins of official history. Yet, from Abyssinia to the plains...

On October 20, 1952, the British Empire declared a state of emergency in Kenya. On that day, a war began; but history would call...

On 16 June 1944, George Stinney Jr., 14 years old, was executed in an electric chair in South Carolina. small, Black, defenseless. designated guilty,...

On 9 September 1739, near the banks of the Stono River in South Carolina, around sixty African slaves rose up against their masters. Led...

September 10, 1793, northern Saint-Domingue. Toussaint Louverture, still allied with Spain, attacks the camp of La Tannerie held by the Black officer Bramant Lazzary,...

On February 23, 1802, in a narrow gorge of the Artibonite, Toussaint Louverture’s troops confronted the French army under Rochambeau. A French victory? A...

They were enslaved men, taken from East Africa, castrated, and trained to serve in the sultan’s palace. Yet these mutilated men would become masters...

Born in 1944 in Birmingham, at the heart of segregated America, Angela Davis made her life into a school of resistance. A Marxist philosopher,...

August 1831, Virginia: a Black preacher named Nat Turner leads the bloodiest slave insurrection in American history. Two months later, he is publicly hanged,...