History

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,...

On October 17, 1806, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, father of Haitian independence, was assassinated at Pont-Rouge. Behind this regicide: a collapsed empire, a betrayed revolution, a...

Far from the official narrative of a peaceful transition, Nofi delves into the deep genealogy of South African apartheid: its colonial roots, legal machinery,...

Often reduced to a slave uprising, the Haitian Revolution was in fact a political, military, and cultural war of unprecedented magnitude. From 1791 to...

Little known to the general public, the Siddi community—Africans settled in India and Pakistan for over five centuries—reveals a long-overlooked chapter of Afro-Asian history,...

On July 14, 1903, in Fort-Crampel, a Black man was executed with dynamite by two French colonial agents. This was not a blunder, but...

Long relegated to the fringes of legend, the Black pirates of the 18th century were far more than forgotten buccaneers. Fugitives from slavery and...

In May 1803, on the shores of Georgia, a group of Africans reduced to slavery chose to walk into the water rather than live...