I had to go and see Equalizer 2 with Denzel Washington. I have been a fan of Denzel since he...
Few acts of collective forgetting have been as thorough and as successful as the erasing of slavery from...
Born in Africa as Oluale Kossula, he died in America in 1935 as Cudjoe Lewis. Ouale Kossula is widely recognised as the last known person born in Africa to have been...
Abram Petrovich Hannibal, also known as Gannibal or Ganibal, was kidnapped from his parents in Africa and brought...
Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was Brazil’s largest and most enduring freedom polity and one of the most...
“In such a wild country as Africa one does not go far without adventures. The traveler necessarily sees what is strange and wonderful, for every thing is strange.”—Paul du Chaillu Paul...
Isaac Burns Murphy was an African-American Hall of Fame jockey, who is considered one of the greatest riders...
On 14 April 1816, the largest Maafa (Atlantic slavery) uprising in the history of Barbados broke out. Now...
The following quotes are adapted from The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson, widely recognised as the Father of Black History. I have modernised the language to make it...
The South African freedom fighter, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, affectionately known as the “Mother of the Nation,” was an international...
Walter Tull was the British Army’s first ever Black officer. Tull, who was a professional footballer at the...
Ota Benga was a Congolese man taken from Africa to the US, where he was featured in an anthropology exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904,...
