The story of the 369th Infantry Regiment stands as one of the most remarkable chapters in First World...
In 1820, the Antelope was seized off the coast of Florida with approximately three hundred African captives crowded...
On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that transformed the nation’s legal and moral landscape. In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Court...
On July 9, 1841, four Black rivermen—Madison Henderson, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown—were executed...
Mary Turner was a young African-American woman lynched on May 19, 1918, near Valdosta, Georgia, in a horrific...
“Ever since they left Thies, the women had not stopped singing. As soon as one group allowed the refrain to die, another picked it up, and new verses were born at...
“Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is...
“We’ve survived colonization and enslavement and when you consider what we have gone through, the fact that we...
The Lincoln Motion Picture Company is recognized as one of the earliest and most influential Black-owned film production companies in the United States. Founded in 1916, its mission was to challenge...
The Register of the Treasury was an office of the United States Treasury Department. The signature of the...
On November 2–3, 1920, a Euro-American mob attacked the African-American community of Ocoee, Florida, after they attempted to...
“We were here at least 56,000 years ago; Africans came over. The Mongolians don’t come until 2,600 BC and they shared their blood with the Africans and their children became 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…
