What is the Maafa?
April 19, 2026
Black History from across the African World. African, African-American, African-Caribbean, Afro-Latino, Australasia, Black-British, Black-Canadian, Black Presence in Arabia, Asia and Europe.
The story of the 369th Infantry Regiment stands as one of the most remarkable chapters in First World...
In 1820, the Antelope was seized off the coast of Florida with approximately three hundred African captives crowded...
On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that transformed the nation’s legal and moral landscape. In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Court...
On 13 May 1985, the City of Philadelphia carried out a military-style aerial bombing on a residential row...
Cape Coast Fortress stands as one of the largest and best-preserved European fortifications on the West African coast,...
In the spring of 1963, Black Bristolians and their allies launched a four‑month bus boycott that would change race relations in Britain. Rooted in the everyday racism of a regional bus...
On July 9, 1841, four Black rivermen—Madison Henderson, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown—were executed...
“What were they thinking these 492 Jamaicans, as the Empire Windrush slid upstream with the flood between the...
The Bronze Woman, which was unveiled on October 8, 2008, in the south London town of Stockwell at the Stockwell Memorial Gardens, is a 10-foot bronze sculpture of a Black woman...
Three African‑Caribbean women on St. Croix stood at the forefront of a mass insurrection against the Danish government,...
“Ever since they left Thies, the women had not stopped singing. As soon as one group allowed the...
Claude Neal was a 23-year-old African-American man who was arrested and lynched in Jackson County, Florida, on October 26, 1934, in one of the most widely publicized and brutal lynchings of...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
