History

In the summer of 1919, a black man named Eli Cooper was lynched in Georgia for allegedly making statements that offended the white community. His words, seen as a threat to the racial hierarchy of the time, ultimately led...

Ne Buela Muanda was a prophet in the spiritual history of the Bakongo people who, around the 1450s, foretold the arrival of the Portuguese and the subsequent spiritual and physical enslavement that the Bakongo and other African tribes would...

The Clinton Riot of 1875 was a violent racial conflict in Clinton, Mississippi, that erupted during a Republican rally. The initial death toll included five African Americans and three white men; but in the days that followed, the violence...

Simon Kooper was a resolute leader of the ǃKharakhoen, a subtribe of the Nama people in Namibia from 1863 to 1909 who became famous for leading the Nama in the resistance against German colonial forces during the Herero and...

In the late 19th century, as European powers scrambled to colonize Africa, numerous indigenous leaders faced the difficult challenge of resisting foreign domination. Among these was Andreas Lambert, a revered chief in present-day Namibia. Lambert’s resistance against German colonial...

Dr Félix-Roland Moumié was an anti-colonialist Cameroonian leader and pan-Africanist, who was assassinated in Geneva on 3 November 1960 by an agent of the French secret service, following official independence from France earlier that year. Moumié is remembered as...

Marcos Xiorro was an enslaved African in Spanish Puerto Rico who, led an unsuccessful slave revolt against the sugarcane plantation owners and the Spanish Colonial government in 1821. His story, though largely forgotten, remains a significant chapter in the...

In the early 18th century, the island of Curaçao, a Dutch colony in the Caribbean, was a hub of the transatlantic slave trade. During this time, the island saw few significant rebellions. However, one uprising in late 1716 would...

Peter von Scholten was a Danish colonial governor who abolished slavery in the Danish West Indies, now known as the U.S. Virgin Islands, in 1848.

On July 30, 1866, a peaceful demonstration of Black Americans in New Orleans was violently attacked by a mob of white rioters, many of whom were ex-Confederates. The massacre, which occurred outside the Mechanics Institute, resulted in at least...