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.
“No, you can’t have my life; I will fight for it.” January 27, is an annual International Day...
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 last Moorish City “Granada”, surrendered to armies of a recently united Christian Spain...
On January 1, 1923 a massacre was carried out in Rosewood, a town with about 150 residents. Rosewood...
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 American cult called the Peoples Temple died in a mass suicide-murder under the...
“The Island of Gorée is an exceptional testimony to one of the greatest tragedies in the history of...
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 citizens. The massacre occurred because Southern Whyte Democrats wanted to regain political domination...
The Ocoee massacre, considered the “single bloodiest day in modern American political history,” was a violent race riot...
George Wells Parker’s speech is still a classic. It was delivered to the Omaha Philosophical Society on April...
Quamina Gladstone, commonly known as Quamina, was a Guyanese Coromantee captive who was the father of Jack Gladstone. Quamina and his son were involved in the Demerara Rising of 1823, one...
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…
