This pictorial post features a powerful 40-panel visual narrative by Haitian artist Joseph Kendy titled “Noir & Blanc”...
Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American who distinguished himself as a national war hero, statesman and civil-rights leader in the Reconstruction South, serving five terms in the United States House...
Gordon was an enslaved African-American who became an iconic figure during the Civil War, in exposing the brutality...
Olaudah Equiano was born an Igbo around 1745, in what is now eastern Nigeria. He came from a...
Andrew Jackson Beard was born on March 29, 1849. He was a farmer, carpenter, blacksmith, a railroad worker, a businessman and finally an inventor. He was inducted into the National Inventors...
Solitude was born into the Maafa in Guadeloupe around 1772, the daughter of an African woman who was raped...
Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729 – 14 December 1780) is the first known Black Briton to vote in a...
Madison Washington escaped Euro-American system of enslavement to freedom in Canada. However, Washington could not continue to live free in Canada while the woman he loved remained in bondage. He went...
Every day, at the Noir de Rio Museum, hundreds of people venerate an image of a Black woman...
The Hanging of Angelique flips the script on the idea of Canada as a haven from slavery. During...
“Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life (after [the Maafa]) we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a...
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…
