Cordella Stevenson was a Black woman living in rural Mississippi. In 1915, after her son was suspected of a crime he didn’t commit, a white mob kidnapped and lynched her, leaving her body hanging in public. No one was...
The Old Negro Mart is one of the last surviving buildings in America where enslaved African men, women, and children were bought and sold before the Civil War. Located on Chalmers Street, it now stands as a museum, but...
William Davenport was one of the most prolific slave traders in British history. Operating out of Liverpool, he organized numerous voyages that transported tens of thousands of enslaved Africans to the Americas and the Caribbean. By the sheer scale...
On November 21, 1985, the township of Mamelodi, near Pretoria, became the scene of one of the darkest episodes of apartheid in South Africa. Thirteen Black South Africans were killed, and dozens more wounded, when apartheid police opened fire...
In the early evening of June 15, 1930, Atlanta, Georgia, witnessed a tragedy that would haunt the city for decades. Dennis T. Hubert, an 18-year-old sophomore at Morehouse College, was lynched on the playground of the segregated Crogman School....
In the late 18th century, when enslaved Africans in America were forbidden to gather without white supervision, Andrew Bryan defied the law to preach the gospel. For daring to do so, he was brutally whipped and imprisoned, yet he...
In the early 1800s, deep in the American South where slavery and superstition ruled side by side, an enslaved man named Jack Macon became a legend. Known across Tennessee as “Doctor Jack,” he was no ordinary slave. Though legally...
In February 1766, the Indian Ocean became the stage of one of the most remarkable revolts in the history of the transoceanic slave trade. Aboard the Dutch slave ship Meermin, Malagasy captives rose against their Dutch enslavers in a...
On November 16, 1900, a crowd of over three hundred white men gathered near Limon, Colorado, to watch a horrifying spectacle. A 15-year-old Black boy named Preston John Porter Jr. was chained to a steel rail and burned alive....
Andrew Jackson Beard was an African American inventor whose brilliance shone despite being born into a world that denied him education. A self-taught genius, Beard created life-saving innovations in agriculture and railroad engineering, leaving behind a legacy that still...
Anele is a web developer and a Pan-Africanist who believes bad leadership is the only thing keeping Africa from taking its rightful place in the modern world.
