What is the Maafa?
April 19, 2026
Black History from across the African World. African, African-American, African-Caribbean, Afro-Latino, Australasia, Black-British, Black-Canadian, Black Presence in Arabia, Asia and Europe.
Palmares or Quilombo dos Palmares is the largest and most famous of Brazilian quilombos, and perhaps the quilombo...
On 14 April 1816, the largest Maafa (Atlantic slavery) uprising in the history of Barbados broke out. Now...
“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,...
There were three major Maafa (Atlantic slavery) revolutions in the Caribbean during the early 19th century: Barbados (1816),...
“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 Olympics 2016. 37 female athletes from around the world competed in the...
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...
The Chicago Defender was the United States’ most influential Black weekly newspaper by the advent of World War I, with more than two-thirds of its readership located outside Chicago. Founded by...
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...
The Register of the Treasury was an office of the United States Treasury Department. The signature of the Register of the Treasury appeared on United States paper money from 1861 until...
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…
