History

Poet of pain and priestess of resilience, Maya Angelou gave voice to the unspeakable with a pen of fire and a velvet voice. Through...

Over the centuries, the island we now know as “Martinique” has borne at least three different names: Jouanacaera, Madinina/Madiana, and Martinica. These successive names—Amerindian,...

Mobilized during the Great War and wounded in the Dardanelles, Saint-Eloi Etilce was shot dead in 1919 in Nantes by an American military policeman....

It is often believed that slavery was abolished by decree. But in Martinique, it was the enslaved people themselves who brought it down. On...

In 18th-century France, at the height of the slave era, Jean-Baptiste Médor, a formerly enslaved Black man from Saint-Domingue, became a dance master in...

They called him Lucifer, Captain Cornieles, or Diego de los Reyes. Behind these names lies a single legend: that of an Afrodescendant, born enslaved...

The story of Aniaba, an Assinian prince at the court of Louis XIV, illustrates the ambiguity of Franco-African relations in the 17th century—a destiny...

On March 21, 1960, in South Africa, police massacred 69 peaceful demonstrators in Sharpeville—a major turning point in the fight against apartheid. A Turning point...

Enlisting under a false identity, Cathay Williams entered history as the first Black woman to serve in the United States Army. Her fascinating story,...