Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali - founding members of the Alliance of Sahel States - have, in unison, announced their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Young Africans are increasingly refusing to tolerate the bad old ways. The new generation is pushing back against corrupt governance, injustice, inequality and state impunity.

France's economic development has been, in large part, thanks to its plundering of Africa. Not just during colonial times, but also today - when stealing resources via exploitative agreements is dressed up as cooperation.

It’s two years to the day since Tel Aviv’s military onslaught on Gaza began. Last month, a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded that there is an ongoing genocide in the Strip.

Liverpool City College student Callum Johnson-Mills caught the attention of the world when this 14 August clip of him calling out the BBC for being complicit in Israel’s military onslaught on Gaza went viral.

Treason, war crimes, murder and sexual assault. A Congolese (DRC) military court recently found ex-president Joseph Kabila guilty on all counts - and sentenced the 54-year-old to death.

Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, was a beloved friend of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (1942-2011).

It only took France 128 years, but, at the end of August, it finally surrendered the skull of a western Malagasy royal it butchered as its colonial forces massacred his people for daring to resist the French.

4th October, marks 64 years since students at Burglund High School in McComb, Mississippi staged a walkout. They were angry at the unfair expulsion of three students.

Why did apartheid end? In this debate, an audience member states that the brutal regime that had South Africa in a stranglehold for over four decades collapsed because an international movement made it impossible for European settlers to run their businesses, travel and play sports.

Julius Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters Party (EFF), has unwaveringly used his voice to speak out against the oppression of the Palestinian people.

Assata Shakur, an icon in the Black liberation struggle, died in Havana on 25 September 2025. She was 78. The Cuban authorities say her death was linked to ‘advanced age.’

Today, we remember the Parsley Massacre. It began on 2 October 1937 and lasted about a week. US-backed Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered the slaughter of thousands of Haitians near the border at the Dajabón River.

POWER EXTENSION: TURNING BLACK BEAUTY INTO BLACK PROFITS Black beauty is big business - but not for Black businesses. For example, the global Black hair-care market is booming: it was worth over $3 billion in 2023, and is projected to reach $4.6 billion by 2032.

Sixty-five years ago today, the Union Jack was lowered in Lagos and British colonial rule over Nigeria ended. Independent Nigeria's green-white-green flag has been flying proudly ever since.

In a bold act of civil disobedience, abolitionists in Syracuse, New York, freed fugitive slave William ‘Jerry’ Henry (1811-53) from federal custody on this day in 1851.