Stories history forgot to tell
Explore the people, uprisings, and turning points that shaped Black history across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. Search the atlas or choose a marker to uncover the story behind the place.
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Stories of power, resistance, brilliance and survival from the Daily Alphas archive.
Discover Lohkay, also called Lokhay, in Sint Maarten’s oral history: escape from slavery, survival in the hills and the limits…
Samuel Sharpe organized Jamaica’s 1831 Christmas strike. Its escalation into the Baptist War helped increase pressure for British emancipation.
In 1740, an enslaved African man in Suriname did something extraordinary. He picked up a pen and wrote to the…
In 1763, an enslaved African named Cuffy helped lead one of the largest slave rebellions in the Americas. In Dutch-controlled…
By Jamahl Hokstam In the mountains of Jamaica, there was once a woman who built a community the British Empire…
History has a habit of simplifying powerful people—especially when they didn’t fit neatly into European narratives. Shaka Zulu is often…
By Jamahl Hokstam History has a habit of leaving out details that don’t fit the story it wants to tell.…
Toussaint Louverture was a towering figure of the late 18th and early 19th centuries—a Haitian revolutionary, military strategist, and statesman…
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Short documentaries that turn overlooked lives and forgotten moments into stories you can see, hear and remember.
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Daily Alphas explores the people, struggles and achievements that have been overlooked, simplified or left out of the mainstream historical record. We tell the story, examine the evidence and let the past speak for itself.