Portrait

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

From London to Port of Spain, Michael X crossed the 1960s preaching Black emancipation while flirting with controversy. Activist, cultural icon, fugitive, and finally...

Arcahaie, May 18, 1803. The air is heavy, tension runs high. In a feverish silence, a woman busily sews what her godfather, Jean-Jacques Dessalines,...

Amadou Hampâté Bâ, writer, ethnologist, and African sage, dedicated his life to rescuing the oral traditions of West Africa from oblivion. From Bandiagara to...

An African American actor exiled in the Soviet Union, Wayland Rudd embodied the thwarted utopia of a life dedicated to art and equality. Caught...

The first Black African elected as a deputy in France, Blaise Diagne carried the hopes of republican equality at the heart of the colonial...

Visionary and builder, Steve Fogue, former co-founder of the fintech Particeep, unveils Tour Ciel in Douala, a next-generation business center. This project, at the...

First African American coach in the NFL, Fritz Pollard was a pioneer of professional sports and a builder of freedom in the face of...

In Montevideo, he was born without a name. In Rome, he died a hero. Andrés Aguiar, a freed slave turned lieutenant of Garibaldi, crossed...