Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was Brazil’s largest and most enduring freedom polity and one of the most...
“In such a wild country as Africa one does not go far without adventures. The traveler necessarily sees...
Isaac Burns Murphy was an African-American Hall of Fame jockey, who is considered one of the greatest riders in American Thoroughbred horse racing history. Murphy rode in the Kentucky Derby 11...
On 14 April 1816, the largest Maafa uprising in Barbados’s history broke out. Now known as Bussa’s Rebellion,...
The following quotes are adapted from The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson, widely recognised as...
The South African freedom fighter, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, affectionately known as the “Mother of the Nation,” was an international symbol of resistance to apartheid. Winnie’s Khoza name ‘Nomzamo’ has been variously translated...
Walter Tull was the British Army’s first ever Black officer. Tull, who was a professional footballer at the...
Ota Benga was a Congolese man taken from Africa to the US, where he was featured in an...
“Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, ’cause they knew death was better than bondage.” ~Eric Killmonger The Maafa (Atlantic trafficking and captivity) is the part...
Did You Know that around 75,000 years ago an African drilled tiny holes into the shells of snails...
Henry Sylvester Williams was a Trinidadian lawyer, writer, and activist widely regarded as a founding figure in organized...
Ever since reading Sobonfu Somé’s book, The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient Teachings in the Ways of Relationship—a source for many of the quotes below—I have admired her deeply. The book’s simplicity...
