History

We will never know from which part of Africa this story begins, yet we do know that everything starts around 1750. A child is born,...

A prominent figure of revolutionary Black struggle in the United States, exiled in Cuba for over forty years, Assata Shakur passed away on September...

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...