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.
Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson, those were the names of the four little...
In 1851, in Christiana, Pennsylvania, one of the earliest armed confrontations took place between a group of African-Americans...
On August 28, 1963, over 250,000 demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., for the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This monumental event placed immense pressure on President John F....
[dropcap size=small]H[/dropcap]urricane Katrina which formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, was the deadliest and most destructive...
“Revolution moves in a mysterious way, its wonders to perform.” –C.L.R. James “It was the first time in...
“As the black spot passed over the sun, so shall the Blacks pass over the earth.” – Nat Turner [dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]n Sunday, 21 August 1831, six enslaved African American men –...
“Your country? How come it yours? Before the Pilgrims landed we were here. Here we have brought our...
Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were two African American men who were lynched on August 7, 1930, in...
The Maji Maji War in Tanganyika (modern-day Tanzania), which began in July 1905 and ended in 1907, was one of the most significant African challenges to German colonial rule. The war...
“Some people don’t want that part of history told because it makes them or their ancestors look bad,...
In 1993, The District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities commissioned a new memorial to African-American...
The United States Colored Troops (USCT) were regiments in the United States Army composed of African-American (colored) soldiers; they were first recruited during the American Civil War (1861-65), and by the...
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…
