On December 31, 1862, African Americans across the United States gathered in churches, homes, and secret meeting places, anxiously awaiting the dawn of a new year. This night, known as Freedom’s Eve, was unlike any other in American history....
Hazel Dorothy Scott was a brilliant jazz and classical pianist, actress, as well as a bold advocate for racial equality and justice. Her immense talent, outspoken stance against racial discrimination, and refusal to conform to societal norms ultimately made...
Richard Dickerson was an African American laborer living in Springfield, Ohio, whose lynching by a white mob on March 7, 1904 became the catalyst for further racial violence, including the targeted destruction of Black-owned businesses in the city’s “Levee”...
Jean Amilcar, a young African boy, was kidnapped from Senegal, taken to France by the Governor of French Senegal, Stanislas de Boufflers, and in 1787, was given as a gift to Queen Marie Antoinette, an act that demonstrated how...
Garrett Morgan was an African American inventor and entrepreneur known for life-saving innovations like the Safety Hood, a precursor to the gas mask, and the traffic signal, which improved road safety. His story is one of overcoming systemic barriers,...
The Shona people, one of the largest ethnic groups in Southern Africa, primarily inhabit Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and parts of South Africa. Renowned for their rich culture and spiritual beliefs, the Shona maintain a profound connection to their traditional religion,...
During the era of chattel slavery in the United States, Southern states actively suppressed the education of African Americans, both enslaved and free. Alabama, like many other states, recognized literacy as a potential threat to the institution of slavery....
The Nocra prison camp was an Italian concentration camp on the island of Nocra, off the coast of Massawa, in Italian colony of Eritrea, that was used to intern freedom fighters. The camp played a significant role in Italy’s...
The transatlantic slave trade is rife with figures who, through their actions, defined the brutal systems of commerce that sustained the colonial economies of the Caribbean. Among them, Alexandre Lindo, a Jewish Jamaican slave trader and ship captain, stands...
The Samba Rebellion of 1731, a purported slave revolt in French colonial Louisiana, remains one of the lesser-known events in early American history, recorded primarily through the writings of Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, a French historian who lived...
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.
