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...
“Out under the moon and the stars, alone with his son…he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his face to the heavens, and said softly,...
The Lincoln Motion Picture Company is recognized as one of the earliest and most influential Black-owned film production...
The Chicago Defender was the United States’ most influential Black weekly newspaper by the advent of World War...
The Great Depression of the 1930s, threw millions of Americans out of work. During the depression years, Blacks and whytes routinely “hoboed” (hitchhiked) freight trains, traveling from place to place looking...
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…
