Richest emperor in History: Mansa Musa, a lesson in grandeur
An entourage of sixty thousand including a personal slave train of 12,000 all clad in Persian silk. Five thousand servants …
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The Tales of Two Murderers: Leopold II & Hitler (Why Is The World Talking About Only One?)
The word ‘Anti-Semitism,’ which was given validity on the basis of Hitler’s crimes against the Jews, is thrown around today …
There Is No White-God In Heaven & Black-Devil In Hell
The idea of heaven and hell are until today, the foremost genius, tricky and heinous lies that are told to …
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, …
Why black men should not marry white women
There is a racial power dynamics that have persisted in the American cultural landscape as a lasting consequence of the …
Thor and Zeus who? Have you met the African Gods of thunder?
It is easy to throw up a button, and it will fall on some random article or movie made about …
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 …
78-Member Team of Nigerian Doctors Successfully Separate Conjoined Twin Girls In 13-Hour Surgery: ‘We’re Just Happy and Proud’
A near 13-hour surgery to separate a pair of conjoined twins proved successful, because of the work of a 78-member …
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, …
“My Baby Walked in Front of a Train”: Mom of Georgia Tech Football Recruit Recalls What Her Son Told Her In Days Before His Suicide
The mom of Georgia Tech football recruit who recently died by suicide earlier in the week addressed the tragedy via …
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 …
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 …
Lena Horne, The Elegant & Beautiful Talent Who Wasn’t Afraid to Be Blacklisted In Fight Against Discrimination
Horne became a member of the civil rights movement and spoke at a rally on behalf of the National Association …
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 …
What Did Slavery Look Like in Arkansas? New Exhibit Has Answers
What was Arkansas’s slavery during the Civil War? The answer to this question is the subject of a new exhibition …