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 …
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 …
History of Felony Disenfranchisement Proves the Laws Are Taking Aim at Black Voters
In the United States, the history of crime deprivation opens a massive gap in the theory that electoral law protects …
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 …
The Lies American Children Are Taught About Slavery
Many African Americans are fighting for the federal government. A textbook distributed to Virginia fourth-graders in 2010 reports that thousands …
Things You May Not Have Known About an Average Day for an Enslaved African in the Americas
He lives in a cabin, not a house. Historians Daniel Littlefield, William Dusinberre, and Peter Wood explain that despite the …
Shameful Pictures of Europeans Placing African People in Human Zoos
From the end of the 18th to the 20th century, Europeans established “human zoos” in cities like Paris. Hamburg, Germany; …
What Does Arkansas Slavery Look Like? New Exhibits Have Answers
How was slavery in Arkansas during the Civil War? The answer to this question is the theme of reopening the …
Invasion: The Aboriginal Holocaust In Tasmania
The mention of Tasmania summons the comic recollections of the Tasmanian devil–the voracious marsupial that was popularized in American cartoons. …
TRC: The Humane Traditional African Justice System
When you hear “Ubuntu,” your first thoughts end up with Ubuntu Linux, and that is not the Ubuntu I want …
Historical Figures Many People Don’t Know Are Black
General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (1762–1806) Thomas-Alexandre Davy da Pailleterie, also known as Alexandre Dumas, is a general of the French army and …
Intrepid Black Female Warriors Throughout History
Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa (c. 1840–October 17, 1921) Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa is the queen mother of the Edweso tribe of …
Ancient Mesopotamia Is Among The Ancient Black Civilizations That Were Not in Africa
Numerous researchers have presumed that the authors of the first Mesopotamian human advancement were Dark Sumerians. Mesopotamia was the Scriptural …