In 1818, Rev. Jacob Gruber stood before thousands of people at a Methodist camp meeting in Maryland and openly condemned slavery. He called the institution a “national sin” and warned that it was offensive to God and harmful to...
On 3 March 1959, eleven Kenyan detainees were beaten to death at Hola detention camp in eastern Kenya by guards working under the British colonial administration. The men were among hundreds of Kenyans detained during the Mau Mau Emergency,...
On September 8, 1919, two Black World War I veterans, Bowman Cook and John Morine, were lynched in Jacksonville, Florida. A White mob took the two men from the Duval County Jail and drove them to the edge of...
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...
In 1662, the colony of Virginia passed a law that changed the future of slavery in North America. It declared that the status of a child would be determined by the condition of the mother. If an enslaved African...
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 December 1941, African miners in the Belgian Congo went on strike to demand higher wages. The cost of living had risen sharply during the Second World War, while African workers were earning far less than their European counterparts....
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...
In 1890, a Black American travelled deep into Central Africa expecting to witness one of Europe’s great civilizing projects. Instead, he encountered forced labour, violence and terror that would become one of the greatest scandals of European colonialism. His...
