Our istwa from across the Pan-African World.
“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...
Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was Brazil’s largest and most enduring freedom polity and one of the most significant communities of African resistance in the Americas. Situated in the forested highlands...
On 14 April 1816, the largest Maafa uprising in Barbados’s history broke out. Now known as Bussa’s Rebellion,...
“Out under the moon and the stars, alone with his son…he walked to the edge of the village,...
The Demerara Revolt of 1823 was the largest uprising in Guyana’s history and one of the largest revolts in the British Caribbean. Beginning on 18 August 1823, it unfolded principally across...
“There is still a powerful tendency to deny that humanity originated in Africa and that the African peoples...
Four Black (African) women created history in the 10000m finals (12 August 2016) in the Summer Games of...
The first Black athlete to compete at the Olympics was Haitian-born French rugby player Constantin Henriquez de Zubiera, who competed for France in 1900. As the French team won the rugby...
The Lincoln Motion Picture Company is recognized as one of the earliest and most influential Black-owned film production...
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 and whytes routinely “hoboed” (hitchhiked) freight trains, traveling from place to place looking...
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…
