Our istwa from across the Pan-African World.
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 an African-born Guyanese man of Akan/Coromantee heritage and the father of...
Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson, those were the names of the four little girls who were murdered on September 15th, 1963, when the Ku Klux Klan...
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...
[dropcap size=small]H[/dropcap]urricane Katrina which formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclones of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was also the...
“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...
“Your country? How come it yours? Before the Pilgrims landed we were here. Here we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours: a gift of story and song...
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...
“Some people don’t want that part of history told because it makes them or their ancestors look bad, but history is history. You can’t just tell the part that makes people...
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…
