Our istwa from across the Pan-African World.
On January 2, 1492, Moorish rulership of Spain came to an end when, Boabdil, the leader of the...
“The Island of Gorée is an exceptional testimony to one of the greatest tragedies in the history of...
On November 2–3, 1920, a Euro-American mob attacked the African-American community of Ocoee, Florida, after they attempted to exercise their right to vote. The violence, remembered as the Ocoee massacre, left...
Quamina Gladstone, commonly known as Quamina, was an African-born Guyanese man of Akan/Coromantee heritage and the father of...
On August 28, 1963, over 250,000 demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., for the historic March on Washington for...
“Revolution moves in a mysterious way, its wonders to perform.” –C.L.R. James “It was the first time in human history that enslaved people had destroyed a slave system, declared themselves rulers,...
“As the black spot passed over the sun, so shall the Blacks pass over the earth.” – Nat...
The Maji Maji War in Tanganyika (modern-day Tanzania), which began in July 1905 and ended in 1907, was...
In 1993, The District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities commissioned a new memorial to African-American soldiers and sailors who fought in the Civil War. The African American Civil...
We have noticed an error, which all journalists seem to make. Whether from mistake or ill-intention, we are...
Three captive women were among the approximately 155 people accused of witchcraft in the infamous Salem witch trials...
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…
