Wait, France has a Black History?!
It was called the transatlantic slave trade for a reason.
And yet, when France appears in popular culture, it is rarely imagined as Black.
Hello, Emily in Paris.
We’re not in school textbooks. Not in museums. Only represented in pop culture, at most.
I used to believe that lie too
The lie that Black people were and still are anecdotal to France.
I was wrong.
The history we are taught at school is not all of history. It is a branding choice.
Black France is France
There is abundant research on Black France and Black French studies.
It just lives closed off behind the walls of universities. It takes a curious mind to look for what is hidden. And if you’re still reading, I know you have one.
What are readers saying?
Who is behind The Noir Letter?
I am a Black French woman living in France, talking from and inside France.
Every week, I share stories of exceptional Black people who deserve a higher place in French national history.
Where can I start?
Who Is the Black Mona Lisa of the Louvre?
Who was the Black violonist Favored by Marie-Antoinette?
Who Was the First African Pope?
