Did You Know that Queen Phillipa of Hainault is one of the 100 Great Black Britons?
According to 100 Great Black Britons website, Queen Phillipa is England’s first Black queen and mother of the Black Prince. Philippa of Hainault was born...
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Wilma Rudolph: The fastest woman in the world in the 1960s
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an African-American athlete who in 1960 became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at...
The Empire Windrush: June 22, 1948
“What were they thinking these 492 Jamaicans, as the Empire Windrush slid upstream with the flood between the closing shores of Kent and Essex? Standing...
The Bronze Woman: The first public statue of a Black woman in England
The Bronze Woman, which was unveiled on October 8, 2008, in the south London town of Stockwell at the Stockwell Memorial Gardens, is a 10-foot...
Say it loud, “I am Black and I am Proud” Quotes
You so black You so black When you smile, the stars come out You so black When you born the God come out black as...
“SPEECH TO THE YOUNG, SPEECH TO THE PROGRESS-TOWARD” by Gwendolyn Brooks
Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, “even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be...
“Fireburn”: The Three Queens of the Virgin Islands
Three African-Caribbean women on St. Croix led an insurrection against the Danish Government in a successful demand for better wages and working conditions. This revolt...
Mathias De Sousa: The first African-American in Maryland
Mathias de Sousa, possibly of African and Portuguese ancestry, is considered the first known Portuguese immigrant on record to have settled in North America. He...
Mountain of Peace and Prosperity
“If you are still angry at the person who hurt you, if you haven’t been able to forgive, then you are chained to that person....
Kemetic (Ancient-Egyptian) Mystical Wisdom
All the ‘proverbs’ featured below have been taken from, Egyptian Yoga: The Philosophy of Enlightenment by Muata Ashby. Kemet (Ancient Egypt) was known as “the...