History

The Instructions for Merikare is an Egyptian text nearly 4,000 years old that strikingly anticipates the writings of European authors in history such as...

The “Legacy Museum,” a museum in Alabama, reveals a dark side of American history, from slavery to police violence. Legacy Museum, a museum of heritageSlavery,...

These racist theories, which have since been debunked, were once popular and accepted ideologies that supported negrophobic perceptions. These theories were used to justify...

The history of African peoples is so vast and so spectacular that one hardly knows where to begin. And it is not only the...

June 30, 1936, Haile Selassie I delivered a speech before the League of Nations, in order to denounce the violation of his imperial borders...

The Ashanti (or Asante) people mainly live in present-day Ghana. They are themselves a subgroup of the Akan people, which includes the Agni, Baoulé,...

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, known as Ida B. Wells, was an activist known for denouncing the horrors of the lynching of Black people. She was...

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr., one of the greatest advocates of civil rights and equality in the United States, was tragically...

I. Introduction The liberation of Sachsenhausen – May 2, 1945 marks an important date in the history of the Second World War and for Afro-Europeans...