History

Born in 1950, the FEANF was far more than a simple student union: it became a revolutionary forge, a catalyst for African independence. Facing...

He was one of the first Black elected officials of the French Republic. A powerful, lucid, and combative voice that rose in the halls...

On March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, a peaceful march organized to defend the voting rights of African Americans was violently repressed by law...

Doctor, intellectual, forgotten pioneer: François Fournier de Pescay was the first Afro-descendant (though not the first African) to practice medicine in Europe. Born between...

A man between two worlds, two colors, two shattered dreams. Jean-Pierre Boyer, the mixed-race son of a French tailor and a formerly enslaved Congolese...

In August 1619, about twenty Africans captured in Angola landed at Old Point Comfort, in Virginia. Torn from the Portuguese ship São João Bautista...

Between 1802 and 1803, several thousand Black and mulatto soldiers who had been captured were executed by drowning in the harbor of Cap-Français, in...

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Great Dismal Swamp, a marshland located between Virginia and North Carolina, sheltered entire communities of fugitive slaves....

From Guinea-Bissau to Cape Verde, the PAIGC led one of Africa’s most emblematic anti-colonial struggles, balancing Pan-African myth, military victory, and a complex legacy. One...