These days we have numerous job opportunities that can cater to almost everyone. However, this wasn’t always so. While Ancient Rome had an impressive amount of job opportunities ranging from farmers and merchants to gladiators and senators. Here are some of the
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Virginia in 1856 to a family of Scots-Irish and Scottish descent in Staunton, Virginia. He was the first son and third of four children to Reverend Joseph Ruggles Wilson and Jessie Janet Woodrow. His grandfather James
Uncle Tom of the Twenty-first Century and the Hard Truth – The point of this conversation is centred on persons who could rank high on the list of most black persons as black people who enable the persecution of black people by
Despite being in existence for an extended period, the FBA was in the limelight a few months ago in the social media space, where Africans criticized the essence of its existence, citing that it was meant to confer a feeling of superiority
In 1861, after decades of tension over diverse ideologies on slavery, states rights, and secession of the south from the union, the civil war broke out in the United States. Here we highlight some of the causes of the civil war. 1.
The institution commissioned a study which revealed that it benefited “significantly” from slavery. The University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom announced on Thursday that it has benefitted from the revenues of slavery throughout its history and will boost scholarships for Black
Denmark Vesey’s rebellion of 1822 was very similar to the Gabriel Prosser rebellion of 1800 in the fact that his plan was exposed by two slaves, and it never happened. Denmark Vesey was born in 1767. He was born into slavery but
Gabriel Prosser Rebellion This revolt, although not executed, was notable for the scale of violence and chaos that could have occurred if it had taken place. Gabriel, born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1776, planned what would have been one of the most
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,
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.
With every new day, there’s an increasing number of Black people (both Africans, and African Diaspora), who want to understand more about their history and heritage, and who express their anger and distaste about the wickedness of the Caucasian world on Black
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
When slavery is discussed in the media and instructed in schools, almost no is references the solid and savage opposition that Africans set facing the enslavers and their associates. The courage of African predecessors is hidden mostly where no one will think
