A Black Wedding Song
This love is a rich cry over
the deviltries and the death.
A weapon-song. Keep it strong.
Keep it strong.
Keep it logic and magic and lightning and muscle.
Strong hand in strong hand, stride to
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Claude Neal: The last ‘spectacle lynching’ in the United States.
Claude Neal was a 23-year-old African-American man who was arrested and lynched in Jackson County, Florida on October 26, 1934. He never got to trial. It was one of the most horrific acts of violence in the USA...
Richard Egües: La Flauta Mágica
Eduardo Richard Egües Martínez is one of the most famous flute musicians in Cuba, nicknamed "la flauta mágica" (the magic flute). Egües composed what are today classics of salsa, such as "Sabrosona", "Bomb...
Ten ‘Black Body’ Quotes from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World And Me”
I had to go see Equalizer 2 with Denzel Washington. I have been a fan of Denzel since he played Steve Biko in Cry Freedom. I remember going to the Empire cinema in Leicester Square, London, to watch the film o...
“The Burial of Slavery”: August 1, 1838
Few acts of collective forgetting have been as thorough and as successful as the erasing of slavery from the Britain’s “island story”. ~David Olusoga
On August 1, 1838, the British ended the Maafa (Atlant...
Cudjoe Kossula Lewis: The “last African-American ancestor?”
Born in Africa as Oluale Kossula, he died in America in 1935 as Cudjoe Lewis.
Oluale Kossula was considered the last person born in Afrika to have been enslaved in the United States. However, he was the last m...
Abram Petrovich Hannibal: A Nobleman of Russia
Abram Petrovich Hannibal also Gannibal or Ganibal was stolen from his parents in Afrika and brought to Russia as a gift for Peter I. Hannibal became major-general, military engineer, governor of Reval and noble...
Ngola Janga (or Palmares) of Brazil
Palmares or Quilombo dos Palmares is the largest and most famous of Brazilian quilombos, and perhaps the quilombo that survived the longest. It was established from the early 1600s about 60k inland from the nor...
Paul Belloni Du Chaillu: The “African” Zoologist who became known as the first modern European to confirm the existence of gorillas
"In such a wild country as Africa one does not go far without adventures. The traveler necessarily sees what is strange and wonderful, for every thing is strange."—Paul du Chaillu
Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (du...
For Freckled-Faced Gerald by Etheridge Knight
"I was lying in my cell reading one night, when all the guys came in. I had been working on the prison newspaper and had gotten off work early. When they came in, the word came that a young brother had been rap...