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On this day in 1904, German General Lothar von Trotha issued an extermination order against the Herero people in German South West Africa, present-day Namibia. He ordered German troops to shoot any Herero found within German territory, including those...

In the late 16th century, when Portugal began pushing deeper into Angola, it turned to African military groups to help fight the powerful states of the interior. Among them were the Imbangala, whose warriors would eventually fight alongside the...

Ali Soilih was a Comorian president who attempted to transform his newly independent country through a radical socialist revolution. He challenged French influence, traditional Muslim customs and the authority of established elites. His policies won support among sections of...

Robert Wedderburn was a Jamaican-born preacher and radical abolitionist who was jailed for his outspoken attacks on slavery and religious authority. Born around 1762 to an enslaved Black woman and a Scottish plantation owner, he grew up close to...

The Opelousas Massacre, also known as the St. Landry Massacre, was one of the bloodiest episodes of racial violence during the Reconstruction era. Although the exact death toll remains unknown, historical estimates generally put the number of Black people...

Long before African countries began gaining independence from European colonial powers, Africans were already organizing against colonial rule. One of the early figures in that struggle was André Matsoua, a Congolese political activist who challenged French colonial rule decades...

Isaiah Nixon was a World War II veteran, a husband, a father of six and a farmer in Montgomery County, Georgia. He had served his country overseas and returned home hoping to build a quiet life with his family....

In the summer of 1955, Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago who was looking forward to spending part of his school vacation with relatives in Mississippi. He was born on July 25, 1941, and had grown...

When European powers began their rush to conquer Africa in the nineteenth century, they did not enter a completely unknown continent. Long before European armies arrived to establish colonial administrations, missionaries had already travelled deep into African territories, established...

In the early 1940s, a young girl from the Casamance region of Senegal became one of the most influential spiritual figures in her community. Her name was Aline Sitoé Diatta. A Diola spiritual leader, she would eventually become known...