The Foundations of Liberia
Supported by both slaveholders and abolitionists for different reasons, the founding of Liberia is a history of the near impossible. Perhaps its greatest feat was survival.
Black History
Britain’s Forgotten Caribbean Citizens
What did it mean to be black and British in the Caribbean in the years before Windrush?
Policing the Windrush Generation
Police brutality and stop-and-search are yet another legacy of Empire.
The Hitlers in the United States
The Nazi persecution of Jews shaped the African-American freedom struggle, inviting comparisons between Jim Crow and the unfolding Holocaust.
The United States of Africa?
Is a united Africa, freed from the legacy of colonialism, possible? The Pan-African movement has been advocated by many different voices, underpinned by a belief in the common destiny in the peoples of Africa.
Justice in an Unjust World
The untold story of African-Americans’ civil cases in the segregated South.
Beyond Radical Chic: The Black Panther Party
Founded in Oakland, California more than half a century ago, the Black Panther Party’s revolutionary image and legacy remain as politically and racially divisive as ever.
The Air of Freedom
Before the British Empire and the Atlantic slave trade, Africans lived freely in Tudor England.
Kroomen: Black Slaver Hunters
Fiercely independent, highly skilled sailors, the Kroomen of Sierra Leone forged an alliance with the Royal Navy to rid the African coasts of slavers.
Portrait of the Author as a Historian: Toni Morrison
The dead, white, male canon has not merely stifled African-American history so much as smothered it. One author has spent her career grappling with the problem of America’s whitewashed past, writes Alexander Lee.