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Assata Shakur: a black icon between struggle and legend

A prominent figure of revolutionary Black struggle in the United States, exiled in Cuba for over forty years, Assata Shakur passed away on September...

October 20, 1952: The Mau Mau Revolt

On October 20, 1952, the British Empire declared a state of emergency in Kenya. On that day, a war began; but history would call...

George Stinney Jr., or lightning-struck justice

On 16 June 1944, George Stinney Jr., 14 years old, was executed in an electric chair in South Carolina. small, Black, defenseless. designated guilty,...

Angela Davis, or thought in Resistance

Born in 1944 in Birmingham, at the heart of segregated America, Angela Davis made her life into a school of resistance. A Marxist philosopher,...

Ruby Bridges, a symbol of resistance in segregated America

On November 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges, six years old, became the first African American child to integrate William Frantz School in New Orleans. Escorted...

Anta Madjiguène Ndiaye, the Jolof queen who became a plantation mistress in Florida

Captured at thirteen on the coasts of Senegal, Anta Madjiguène Ndiaye, daughter of a Wolof chief, was deported to Cuba and then to Florida....

Apartheid: genealogy of a State-sanctioned racism in southern Africa

Far from the official narrative of a peaceful transition, Nofi delves into the deep genealogy of South African apartheid: its colonial roots, legal machinery,...

Ahmet Ali Çelikten, the forgotten black eagle of turkish aviation

Ahmet Ali Çelikten, an Ottoman officer who became a colonel in the Turkish Air Force, was the first Black pilot in history. Yet his...

Marie Laveau, the voodoo queen who made New Orleans tremble

In 19th-century New Orleans, a free Black woman shook the powerful, healed the humble, and embodied the spiritual syncretism of African and Creole peoples....

The war in Cameroon: A bloody decolonization long kept in silence

As African independences are being commemorated, one name remains strangely absent from official narratives: that of the Cameroon War. Between 1955 and 1971, a...

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