Facts About George Washington and Slavery
George Washington first came into possession of enslaved Africans at the first age of 11. Washington and his wife Martha …
History & Stories
The Tragedy Of Igbo Landing: It Is Either Freedom Or I Choose Death
Watching the video of Beyonce’s new music “Love Drought” and its obvious derivation of symbolism from the Igbo landing tragedy, …
Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes People Ignore But Shouldn’t
White Americans Aren’t Doing Their Part to finish Racism — and that they Don’t Want to In his final manuscript …
A School In Wisconsin Ignored Numerous Complaints By a Black Teen of Racist, Sexual Abuse & Now She’s Filing a Lawsuit
A black former Baraboo administrative district student alleges the district routinely ignored complaints by her and her mother about racist …
African Kings And Queens Whose Stories Should Be Told On Movies
Some years ago, Nick Cannon expressed his disdain for movies like “Django Unchained” and “12 Years a Slave,” saying he’s …
Great African Women In History You Should Know
As a Black man and an African historian, I even have found that one among the foremost inspiring aspects within …
Why every black American must visit Africa at least once in their lifetime
Why every black American must visit Africa at least once in their lifetime. My flight touched down at the …
73 Years Later, Remains Of Lost Tuskegee Airman May Have Been Discovered In Europe
The remains of a Tuskegee Airman who went missing during war II may are found, consistent with a replacement report …
The Origins of ‘slave food’: Callaloo, Dumplings and Saltfish
The Caribbean is usually mentioned because the actual ‘melting pot within the Americas,’ where people, their culture, customs, and cuisines, …
Any Black Person Who Still Bears Christian Names Is Still a Slave To The Whites
With every new day, there’s an increasing number of Black people (both Africans, and African Diaspora), who want to understand …
3.8Million Years Old Skeletons Of Pre-humans Discovered In Ethiopia, Africa
In a ground-breaking archaeological finding, scientists performing on the Woranso-Mille Paleoanthropological scientific research study within the Afar Regional State of …
Dozens Of Men And Women Were Rescued From “Modern-Day Slavery” Ran By A Religious Group In Trinidad and Tobago
There is an ongoing investigation after the Trini police say dozens of individuals were found shackled, and in cages inside …
How Robert E. Lee’s Image Transformed Over Time
Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. Lee was vilified in the North during the Civil War only to be transformed in …
Thomas Sankara, the ‘African Che Guevara’ Who Tried to Save Burkina Faso from French Imperialism
Thomas Sankara, the ‘African Che Guevara’ Who Tried to Save Burkina Faso from French Imperialism After a successful coup against …
Paul Kagame: Rwanda Scraps Over 1,000 Colonial-Era Laws
According to The New Times Rwanda by (published by Nasra Bishumba) after discussions to scrap all the country’s colonial-era laws …
Amilcar Cabral: The African Engineer & Revolutionary Who Brought Portuguese Colonizers To Their Knees
Amilcar Lopes da Costa Cabral (Portuguese: 12th September 1924 – 20th January 1973) was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural …