For millions of enslaved Black families in the United States, January 1 was never a day of joy. While the world around them celebrated the New Year with music, laughter, and hope, enslaved families faced dread and sorrow. They...
On December 26, 1921, while much of white America was still in the afterglow of Christmas, Bill McAllister lay dead in Florence County, South Carolina, his body riddled with bullets. His crime was not proven murder, not theft, not...
For millions of enslaved Africans in the Americas, Christmas was not simply a religious holiday or a brief pause in labor. It was a calculated opportunity. Across plantations in the United States, the Caribbean, and other slave societies, enslaved...
During the Jim Crow era, segregation depended on strict racial categories: a person was either Black or white, inferior or superior, barred or welcomed. Rev. Jesse Routte exposed the idiocy of that system in a remarkable way, not through...
In 1941, Pvt. Albert H. King, a young Black soldier stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, was shot and killed under circumstances that would expose the deep racial injustices of the U.S. military during the Jim Crow era. His story,...
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....
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.
