It was a balmy summer night in 2020, Germany's first lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic had just been lifted, when Omar Diallo and two of his friends wanted to celebrate Eid al-Adha, the Muslim ...

Being Black in Germany has always meant exposure to racism, from everyday humiliations to deadly attacks. In eastern Germany, the risk can be even greater.

Did secret agents of Imperial Germany rattle Wall Street windows, ... On Nov. 14, 1930 the German-American Mixed Claims Commission decided the Black Tom and Kingsland cases in Germany’s favor.

But for Germany's Black community, gaining recognition for the crimes and abuses it endured has not been easy. Historian Robbie Aitken, based at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK, has studied ...

Germany . In Germany, Black History Month was established in 1990 by the Initiative Schwarzer Deutscher ... and film—are ...

Being Black in Germany has always meant exposure to racism, ... Meet Germano Gomez, Managing Director of The Harbor Bank of Maryland Community Development Corporation September 23, 2024; ...

Simply sign up to the German economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A man-sized cut-out of a black zero once stood proudly in the centre of Stuttgart — a symbol of Germany’s ...

People gather to pay tribute to a 21-year-old Black man named Lorenz A. who was killed by German police, April 25, 2025, in Oldenburg, Germany. Hesham Elsherif/Anadolu/Getty ...

Germany’s history of racial discrimination begins long before the Nazis began excluding, deporting and ultimately murdering Black people in the 1930s and 1940s.

GERMANY: Black Tom; GERMANY: Black Tom. 2 minute read. TIME. November 24, 1930 12:00 AM GMT-5. W ith thunderous roar upon roar a series of munitions blasts rocked lower New York City almost to its ...

Now, with the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, Black Germans and African migrants like Diallo are growing increasingly concerned. Thuringia, which has a population of 2.1 million ...

The German Empire held numerous colonies in Africa from 1884 until the end of World War I. These included territories in present-day Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Namibia, Cameroon, Togo and Ghana.