The Malê Revolt of Brazil
The most outstanding Maafa (Atlantic slavery) revolutionary movement in Brazil were the series of Islamic risings in Bahia from 1808 to 1835. The Malê uprising...
Category : Black History
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.
The Moor’s last sigh
On January 2, 1492, Moorish rulership of Spain came to an end when, Boabdil, the leader of the last Moorish City “Granada”, surrendered to armies...
The Rosewood Massacre
On January 1, 1923 a massacre was carried out in Rosewood, a town with about 150 residents. Rosewood was an all-black community, except for one...
The Aba Women’s War
The Aba Women’s Riot, also known as the Women’s War, was an insurrection in Nigeria when it was occupied by the British to redress social,...
The Jonestown Massacre
On November 18, 1978, in what became known as the “Jonestown Massacre,” more than 900 members of an American cult called the Peoples Temple died...
Goree: Memory Island
“The Island of Gorée is an exceptional testimony to one of the greatest tragedies in the history of human societies: the slave trade. The various...
The shooting of Anthony Griffin: Outrage in Montreal’s Black Community
On November 11, 1987, 19 year old Anthony Griffin was shot and killed by Constable Allan Gossett in Montreal, Quebec causing outrage in the city’s...
The Wilmington Massacre of 1898
The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 was a politically motivated attack by European-Americans against the city’s leading African American citizens. The massacre occurred because Southern Whyte...
The Ocoee Massacre
The Ocoee massacre, considered the “single bloodiest day in modern American political history,” was a violent race riot that broke out on November 2, 1920....
The African Origin of the Grecian Civilization by George Wells Parker
George Wells Parker’s speech is still a classic. It was delivered to the Omaha Philosophical Society on April 1, 1917 and published in The Journal...