History

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

At a time when African founding narratives struggle to be heard amid the tumult of global history, the Mande Charter (proclaimed in the 13th...

The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) is the professional women’s basketball league in the United States, created in 1996 with the support of the...

Tippu Tip, a 19th-century Black trader, was one of the greatest slave merchants in African history. His path—marked by a commercial empire, colonial complicity,...

Under the suffocating canopy of Southern slavery, Denmark Vesey—a free man and preacher—orchestrated a thwarted insurrection that still haunts American history. Behind secret trials,...

She was a horsewoman, a warrior, and the mother of an empire. But who was Yennenga, really? Straddling the line between founding myth and...

Modibo Keïta, first president of independent Mali, was far more than a head of state: a trained teacher, committed socialist, and uncompromising pan-Africanist, he...

A prominent figure in 18th-century imperial Ethiopia, Empress Mentewab embodies one of the most complex expressions of female power within a sacralized monarchy. At...

He was a Crow chief, an army scout, a Rocky Mountains explorer — and yet his name has been erased from official accounts. Born...