Al-Kahina: The Amazigh Warrior-Queen
March 28, 2014
Our istwa from across the Pan-African World.
In 1820, the Antelope was seized off the coast of Florida with approximately three hundred African captives crowded...
On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that transformed the nation’s legal...
On 13 May 1985, the City of Philadelphia carried out a military-style aerial bombing on a residential row house at 6221 Osage Avenue, in the Cobbs Creek section of West Philadelphia....
Cape Coast Fortress stands as one of the largest and best-preserved European fortifications on the West African coast,...
In the spring of 1963, Black Bristolians and their allies launched a four‑month bus boycott that would change...
On July 9, 1841, four Black rivermen—Madison Henderson, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown—were executed on Duncan’s Island, just south of St. Louis, for the robbery of a...
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...
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,...
The Lincoln Motion Picture Company is recognized as one of the earliest and most influential Black-owned film production...
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…
