Society

Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech changed the course of history. Discover why this message still resonates today. On August 28, 1963, during...

Last December, Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa officially announced the use of the yuan, the Chinese currency, as legal tender for everyday transactions starting...

On November 23, 1958, Accra became the stage for a rare political gesture. Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana, independent since March 1957, welcomed Ahmed Sékou Touré’s...

In August 1920, Marcus Garvey gathered Black representatives from several regions of the world in Harlem. Out of this convention emerged the Declaration of...

The Zimbabwean president announces Africa’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. He plans to propose the creation of an African Court of Justice at...

In the new Marvel Studios film Black Panther (2018) by Ryan Coogler, released on February 14, 2018, the character Zuri, portrayed by Forest Whitaker,...

In a long letter written from his detention in South Africa, Kémi Séba delivers his version of events, rejects the accusations against him, and...

The transatlantic slave trade occupies a central place in the memory of slavery. It shaped the Americas, the Caribbean, the Overseas Territories, modern racism,...