Attendees of the MAAFA 25th anniversary at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center in New Orleans. (Photo by Jafar M. Pierre / Ashé Cultural Arts Cente) This is your first of three free stories this month.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - For the past fourteen years, Montgomery Maafa has held a commemoration to honor those who came before them. maafa is a Swahili word meaning great tragedy. The term is used to ...

The Ashé Cultural Arts Center celebrates 25 years of Maafa with events Saturday (June 28) and July 5, commemorating the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Maafa is Kiswahili for “great tragedy,” in reference ...

The 2021 Politico article “Black people are leaving Chicago en masse. It’s changing the city’s power politics” raised a critical query. How do you get people to stay — or to come back? Many of us on ...

Saturday 12 October 2024 is the 532nd anniversary of African Holocaust Day. It is the single most important day on the Global African calendar. African Holocaust Day or the MAAFA is commemorated on 12 ...

Overview: At a time when some governments and schools are resisting or eliminating the teaching of Black history, St. Paul Community Baptist Church centers it with 8 days of programming, sweeping in ...

They were stolen from their homes, locked in chains and taken across an ocean. And for more than 200 years, their blood and sweat would help to build the richest and most powerful nation the world has ...

Each year, a Brooklyn church honors their enslaved African ancestors by looking to the past while trying to improve the present. At a time when some governments and schools are resisting or ...

This summer, a tour of the city’s west side highlighted just how much of a historical and artistic gem the area is, and that parts of it are flourishing. On July 3, a city agency–led tour highlighted ...

It's Friday, and we're in our Southern Union State Community College Kitchen! Joining us today is chef Alvin Henry from Vybz Brunch. It's Friday, and we're in our Southern Union State Community ...

On Saturday, July 6, 2024, beginning at 7 a.m., Congo Square will host the annual New Orleans MAAFA Commemoration, a community event that remembers and reckons with the horrors of the transatlantic ...