History

A major figure in Afro-Brazilian popular devotion, Escrava Anastácia is portrayed with an iron mask over her mouth and a torture collar around her...

Goddess of war and epidemics, Sekhmet is one of the most feared deities of ancient Egypt. Sekhmet Sekhmet is one of the most important ancient Egyptian...

Speech delivered by Aimé Césaire in Dakar, on April 6, 1966, as part of the “Colloquium on Art in the Life of the People,”...

African blood in Western royalty has been present in several European countries since the 16th century. This is the case of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz,...

Juan Garrido was a Black conquistador who, in the first half of the 16th century, took part in the conquest of present-day Puerto Rico,...

The Medici are known as a powerful family of rulers who governed Florence between the 15th and 17th centuries. They notably enabled the emergence...

The kingdom of Napata is the second period of the Kingdom of Kush, the great rival of pharaonic Egypt located in present-day Sudan. This...

On June 19, 1865, enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned that they were free. Since then, the Black community in the United States...

Like many other traditions, that of a significant Berber ethnic group in Algeria, the Kabyles, closely associates Black African populations with the ancient Egyptians. The...