The United States Colored Troops (USCT) were regiments in the United States Army composed of African-American (colored) soldiers;...
On July 13, 1863, anti-draft violence erupted in New York City, resulting in four days of bloodshed, arson,...
Three captive women were among the approximately 155 people accused of witchcraft in the infamous Salem witch trials of 1692. Two women were identified in the court records as Black; the...
Will and William West were doppelgangers who shared the same name and were both sentenced to jail at...
The Soledad Brothers—George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgoole, and John Clutchette—were three African-American men accused of murdering a Euro-American prison guard at California’s Soledad Prison on January 16, 1970. Authorities claimed the murder...
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…
