Did You Know that an African-American woman went to the Yukon in the gold rush of 1897?
Did you know that May B. Mason staked a gold claim in the Yukon mining territory in 1898, finding gold dust valued (back then) at...
Author : Meserette Kentake
Ten Iconic Black Women of the Maafa (Atlantic Slavery)
“Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is as active as your own, whose range...
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...
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....
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....
“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 Britain’s “island story”. ~David Olusoga On August...
Cudjoe Kossula Lewis: The “last African-American ancestor?”
Born in Africa as Oluale Kossula, he died in America in 1935 as Cudjoe Lewis. Ouale Kossula was considered the last person born in Afrika...
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...
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...
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...