By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Contributor

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots

— Marcus Garvey

Washington, DC, August 23, 2018 — The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) announces the launch of a global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities and implications of the […]

“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.”

― Edward […]

Native mariners discovered the Caribbean thousands of years before Columbus arrived. When Spanish ships landed at Guanahani, on October 12, 1492, the Greater Antilles were densely inhabited by diverse Native peoples. Speaking several languages, they lived in independent and self-sufficient communities. Centuries earlier, large Taíno chiefdoms had expanded over several islands, establishing a sphere of […]

Rebellious slaves battle French troops in Saint Domingue, now Haiti

Africans resisted slavery at every point. […]

“John Brown’s body lies a-mouldrin’in the grave, John Brown’s body lies a-mouldrin’in the grave, John Brown’s body lies a-mouldrin’in the grave, But his soul goes marching on.”

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Historian Marcus Rediker spoke to Ken Olende about the struggles that took place aboard the ships of early capitalism.

The first strike wasn’t in […]