Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Our istwa from across the Pan-African World.
On the morning of 9 September 1739, a group of African captives in South Carolina began an uprising...
In the final days of 1831, western Jamaica erupted into the largest uprising of captive people (Xaymacans) in...
The Cuban Revolution was to the Caribbean of the twentieth century what the Haitian Revolution was to the nineteenth: a rupture that reshaped the region’s political imagination and reverberated throughout the...
On August 17, 1795, the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao witnessed one of the most significant and far-reaching...
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 aboard—most of them children, with an average age of only fourteen. Torn from...
On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that transformed the nation’s legal...
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, and is one of more than 30 historic military structures along Ghana’s coastline....
In the spring of 1963, Black Bristolians and their allies launched a four‑month bus boycott that would change...
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 closing shores of Kent and Essex? Standing by the rail this morning high...
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…
