Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Our istwa from across the Pan-African World.
The Bronze Woman, which was unveiled on October 8, 2008, in the south London town of Stockwell at...
Three African‑Caribbean women on St. Croix stood at the forefront of a mass insurrection against the Danish government,...
“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...
Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was Brazil’s largest and most enduring freedom polity and one of the most...
On 14 April 1816, the largest Maafa uprising in Barbados’s history broke out. Now known as Bussa’s Rebellion, the Rising lasted for over two days before being suppressed by British military...
“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...
“There is still a powerful tendency to deny that humanity originated in Africa and that the African peoples of the world are related to each other, or even that Black people...
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,...
The Lincoln Motion Picture Company is recognized as one of the earliest and most influential Black-owned film production companies in the United States. Founded in 1916, its mission was to challenge...
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…
