Our istwa from across the Pan-African World.
“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...
“No, you can’t have my life; I will fight for it.” January 27, is an annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The day was...
The most outstanding Maafa (Atlantic slavery) revolutionary movement in Brazil were the series of Islamic risings in Bahia...
On January 2, 1492, Moorish rulership of Spain came to an end when, Boabdil, the leader of the...
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 family. The massacre was instigated as...
The Aba Women’s Riot, also known as the Women’s War, was an insurrection in Nigeria when it was...
On November 18, 1978, in what became known as the “Jonestown Massacre,” more than 900 members of an...
“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 elements of this “memory island” –...
On November 11, 1987, 19 year old Anthony Griffin was shot and killed by Constable Allan Gossett in...
The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 was a politically motivated attack by European-Americans against the city’s leading African American...
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. African-American-owned buildings and residences in northern...
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…
