Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. Lee was vilified in the North during the Civil War only to be transformed in the decades afterwards into a heroic icon of “The Lost Cause,” admired by many on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Today,
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Thomas Sankara, the ‘African Che Guevara’ Who Tried to Save Burkina Faso from French Imperialism After a successful coup against a corrupt government in Burkina Faso in 1983, Thomas Sankara was nicknamed “Che Guevara in Africa.” Sankara, formerly known as “Upper
Horne became a member of the civil rights movement and spoke at a rally on behalf of the National Association of People of Color and the National Council of Black Women and attended a March 1963 meeting in Washington, DC. Horne’s most
According to The New Times Rwanda by (published by Nasra Bishumba) after discussions to scrap all the country’s colonial-era laws began, parliament has passed a law scrapping over 1,000 pieces of the legislation said to be outdated. “Rwanda was a colony of
Amilcar Lopes da Costa Cabral (Portuguese: 12th September 1924 – 20th January 1973) was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, intellectual, poet, theoretician, revolutionary, political organizer, nationalist and diplomat. He was one of Africa’s foremost anti-colonial leaders. There’s a book shedding
In the United States, the history of crime deprivation opens a massive gap in the theory that electoral law protects the American political system rather than seeking ways to weaken the black. Laws banning convictions have had a severe impact on the
What was Arkansas’s slavery during the Civil War? The answer to this question is the subject of a new exhibition at the Templar Mosaic Cultural Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. I called “free! African Americans from Arkansas and Civil War: 1861-1866, today,
Many African Americans are fighting for the federal government. A textbook distributed to Virginia fourth-graders in 2010 reports that thousands of African Americans fought south during the Civil War – a claim most historians have rejected, but generally looking for Designed by
He lives in a cabin, not a house. Historians Daniel Littlefield, William Dusinberre, and Peter Wood explain that despite the many people who describe slavery living in small, narrow neighborhoods in China, these houses are similar to tiny wooden houses. Still, these
From the end of the 18th to the 20th century, Europeans established “human zoos” in cities like Paris. Hamburg, Germany; Antwerp, Belgium; Barcelona, Spain; London; Milan; Warsaw, Poland; Louis and New York. These are popular human exhibitions where whites will see blacks
How was slavery in Arkansas during the Civil War? The answer to this question is the theme of reopening the exhibition at the Little Rock Themed Cultural Mosaic Center in Arkansas. Entitled “Free! Oh Free!”, Of African descent from Arkansas and the
The mention of Tasmania summons the comic recollections of the Tasmanian devil–the voracious marsupial that was popularized in American cartoons. But there is a much more harsh reality for Tasmania. Tasmania is an island state in Australia. It is located in the
When you hear “Ubuntu,” your first thoughts end up with Ubuntu Linux, and that is not the Ubuntu I want to talk about. Ubuntu is a South African law that dictates an individual’s responsibility within a corporate sense of identity. This principle
General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (1762–1806) Thomas-Alexandre Davy da Pailleterie, also known as Alexandre Dumas, is a general of the French army and has become one of the highest blacks in the continental European army of all time. Born in Santo Domingo (Haiti), Alexandre Dumas
Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa (c. 1840–October 17, 1921) Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa is the queen mother of the Edweso tribe of Asante (Ashanti) in modern Ghana. He was a brave warrior. In March 1900, she raised and led thousands of people to resist
Numerous researchers have presumed that the authors of the first Mesopotamian human advancement were Dark Sumerians. Mesopotamia was the Scriptural place where there is Shinar (Sumer), which jumped up to around 3000 B.C. At the time of decoding the cuneiform content and