On January 1, 1923 a massacre was carried out in Rosewood, a town with about 150 residents. Rosewood...
On November 18, 1978, in what became known as the “Jonestown Massacre,” more than 900 members of an...
The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 was a politically motivated attack by European-Americans against the city’s leading African American citizens. The massacre occurred because Southern Whyte Democrats wanted to regain political domination...
The Ocoee massacre, considered the “single bloodiest day in modern American political history,” was a violent race riot...
Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson, those were the names of the four little...
In 1851, in Christiana, Pennsylvania, one of the earliest armed confrontations took place between a group of African-Americans and Euro-American abolitionists and a Maryland posse intent on capturing four fugitives hidden...
On August 28, 1963, over 250,000 demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., for the historic March on Washington for...
[dropcap size=small]H[/dropcap]urricane Katrina which formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, was the deadliest and most destructive...
“As the black spot passed over the sun, so shall the Blacks pass over the earth.” – Nat Turner [dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]n Sunday, 21 August 1831, six enslaved African American men –...
“Your country? How come it yours? Before the Pilgrims landed we were here. Here we have brought our...
Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were two African American men who were lynched on August 7, 1930, in...
“Some people don’t want that part of history told because it makes them or their ancestors look bad, but history is history. You can’t just tell the part that makes people...
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…
