Cultural

The festival 'Un passé trop présent' ('An all too present past') is organised by the undeclared Collectif Un passé trop présent in Fontenay-Sous-Bois (a town on the outskirts of Paris, Ile-de-France). Organised around 10th May, the festival focuses on the commemoration of slavery and runs for about two weeks from late April to mid-May. May 10th is France's national day for commemorating slavery, the slave trade and their abolitions. During this period, the group, assisted by other associations, organises conferences, debates, poetry contests, dancing, etc. 

Since 2009, the Collectif pour la semaine de la mémoire de l’esclavage of Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines (CSME-SQY) has been organising an annual week to commemorate the memory of slavery in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (from 4th to 10th May), which takes place in several municipalities.

Every year since 2011, the Collectif des Associations Devoir de Mémoire (CADM) organises a cultural and festive event commemorating the abolition of slavery in Nanterre (a commune located in the department of Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France).

In 1998, the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche d'Outre-Mer(CERFOM) set up an exhibition entitled "Esclavage" (Slavery). The association, based in Creteil, set up 55 panels of 60X80 cm and 27 texts on the subject of slavery and its abolition.

The exhibition was installed in many places, such as:

This conference on reparations for slavery, co-organized by the Association Racines and the Association Guadeloupéenne pour la recherche en histoire du droit et des institutions d’outre-mer (GREHDIOM) under the patronage of the UNESCO, was held on 16-17 of December 2006 at the Cité des Métiers in the Abymes, Guadeloupe. Numerous discussions and debates were had around the question of reparations and the Taubira law.

In 2000, the association Centre d’Information, Formation, Recherche et Développement pour les Originaires d’Outre-Mer (Cifordom) organised a literary festival called FETKANN, or the 'fête de la canne à sucre' ('sugarcane festival') in memory of the history of French slavery and the sugarcane fields. The first festival was held in Grigny (Ile-de-France) and was supported by the departmental council of Essonne and the French Minister for the Overseas Departments.

In December 2014, the arrival of the South African artist Brett Bailey's controversial Exhibit B to Paris resulted in a number of demonstrations in which the Collectif/Brigade Anti-Négrophobie participated along side the Centre Dumas-Pouchkine des diasporas et cultures africaines, the Alliance noire citoyenne et the association L'Amozaïk. Before its arrival, Exhibit B had been widely criticized for its recreation of the infamous human zoos of the 19th century.