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...
On July 9, 1841, four Black rivermen—Madison Henderson, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown—were executed...
“Ever since they left Thies, the women had not stopped singing. As soon as one group allowed the refrain to die, another picked it up, and new verses were born at...
Claude Neal was a 23-year-old African-American man who was arrested and lynched in Jackson County, Florida, on October...
“Out under the moon and the stars, alone with his son…he walked to the edge of the village,...
The Chicago Defender was the United States’ most influential Black weekly newspaper by the advent of World War I, with more than two-thirds of its readership located outside Chicago. Founded by...
The Great Depression of the 1930s, threw millions of Americans out of work. During the depression years, Blacks...
“They came with horses. They came with nightsticks. And I was standing, and people were running… I did...
The Register of the Treasury was an office of the United States Treasury Department. The signature of the Register of the Treasury appeared on United States paper money from 1861 until...
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…
