From 1807 onwards, Great Britain abolished the sale and ownership of slaves within her empire, and several other European nations followed suit bringing the horrendous Trans-Atlantic slave trade to an end. After this, European interest in Africa, especially Sub-Saharan Africa,
BY RUNOKO RASHIDI I want to inform you about a story and provides you a thesis. It’s only a perspective and maybe further progress. I raised the question of why numerous African-Americans and other Africans within the Diaspora repeat, mostly without investigation,
Alfred Russell Wallace is a man often identified to have contributed almost as much as Charles Darwin to the theory of evolution. Little is, however, known or said about the formerly enslaved person black man that taught Charles Darwin a skill that
The applause from my tiny iPhone speaker was loud enough for anyone close to me to hear, the grin plastered on my face as I fixed my gaze on the device could spark curiosity in anyone who paid any attention to me.
George Washington first came into possession of enslaved Africans at the first age of 11. Washington and his wife Martha together owned about 200 enslaved Africans at the start of the Revolution. Washington had no tolerance for enslaved African uprisings against slavery.
Since I can’t sleep, I A thread on France and the 14 African countries who still pay tax colonies up to now. I know we cannot compare colonizers but France as a state continues to be the most racist and white supremacist
An entourage of sixty thousand including a personal slave train of 12,000 all clad in Persian silk. Five thousand servants were preceding the King on horseback, all carrying 2.7kg gold staffs. One hundred trained camels bearing no less than 300 pounds of
According to many, the lifetime of two-time NBA All-Star Stephon Marbury is going to be on display during a new powerful black documentary. “A Kid from Coney Island” will show how Marbury “..went from making $20 million a year to zero.” Marbury
The word ‘Anti-Semitism,’ which was given validity on the basis of Hitler’s crimes against the Jews, is thrown around today just about every time there is a profound criticism or antagonism of a Jewish individual. This is a form of retributive consideration
The idea of heaven and hell are until today, the foremost genius, tricky and heinous lies that are told to mankind. And its effect is more disastrous in Africa. The concepts of ‘Heaven’ and ‘Hell’ are pure fabrications, and a tool used
Watching the video of Beyonce’s new music “Love Drought” and its obvious derivation of symbolism from the Igbo landing tragedy, I was compelled to write about the Igbo landing of 1803. One who is intimate with the culture of the Igbo people
There is a racial power dynamics that have persisted in the American cultural landscape as a lasting consequence of the transatlantic slave trade. There has been a fetishized culture of black bodies by people of Caucasoid origin, which manifested wholesomely in the
White Americans Aren’t Doing Their Part to finish Racism — and that they Don’t Want to In his final manuscript “Where can we Go From Here?” published in 1967, Luther King Jr., discussed the way white Americans aren’t doing enough to get
A black former Baraboo administrative district student alleges the district routinely ignored complaints by her and her mother about racist taunts, racially motivated physical assaults, harassment, and sexual abuse, all of which the lawsuit says the district did nothing to prevent. In
Some years ago, Nick Cannon expressed his disdain for movies like “Django Unchained” and “12 Years a Slave,” saying he’s uninterested in seeing Black people portrayed as slaves on film. Recognizing that African people’s history started before being enslaved, the actor tweeted
As a Black man and an African historian, I even have found that one among the foremost inspiring aspects within the annals of humankind is that the outstanding role of African women and their contributions to history. During this brief article, we
