Uzonna Anele

Denmark Vesey was a self-educated Black man who was hanged alongside his co-conspirators for planning what is today regarded as the most extensive slave rebellion in U.S. history.

As children prepared for the Youth Day service at the 16th Street Baptist Church, a powerful explosion tore through the church's basement. The blast killed four young girls: Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Denise McNair.

The bombing of Hattie Cotton Elementary in 1957 serves as a haunting reminder of the deep-seated racism and resistance to desegregation that existed in the United States during the Civil Rights Movement.

Matt Ingram was accused of “reckless eyeballing,” (the improper looking at a white person, with sexual intent). He was one of the last African Americans convicted under this law. The case became well-known by civil rights activist in North Carolina.

Black Caesar was a chieftain in West Africa until he was tricked and lured onto a slave ship. By chance, the slave ship was struck by a hurricane, and Black Caesar was among the only ones to escape alive. Stranded at sea, he began his career in piracy, eventually rising to notoriety.

The Battle of Isandlwana in 1879 was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. The Zulus had a vast disadvantage in weapons technology, but they greatly outnumbered the British and ultimately overwhelmed them, killing over 1,300 troops.

Mary Turner was an eight-month pregnant African American woman who, in 1918, faced a brutal lynching at the hands of a white mob in Lowndes County, Georgia. Her "crime" was daring to speak out against the lynching of her...

Lewis Martin was an escaped slave who defied the odds to join the Union Army during the tumultuous era of the US Civil War.

The La Amistad revolt occurred aboard the Spanish slave ship "La Amistad," when a group of enslaved Africans led by Joseph Cinque fought for their freedom.

Thomas and Meeks Griffin, were respected African American brothers in South Carolina, who were wrongfully accused of murder in 1913. Despite shaky testimony from a criminal seeking a reduced sentence, they were convicted and executed in 1915.