Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
On the morning of 9 September 1739, a group of African captives in South Carolina began an uprising...
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...
On July 9, 1841, four Black rivermen—Madison Henderson, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown—were executed on Duncan’s Island, just south of St. Louis, for the robbery of a...
“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...
“Out under the moon and the stars, alone with his son…he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his face to the heavens, and said softly,...
The Chicago Defender was the United States’ most influential Black weekly newspaper by the advent of World War...
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 not run, so he hit me at the base of my neck, and...
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…
