The Eliza Winston Case
On August 21, 1860, enslaved African American Eliza Winston was freed from her Mississippi enslaver in a Minneapolis court. After being granted legal freedom, however,...
Author : Meserette Kentake
Ten Powerful Quotes by Umar Johnson
1. Low self-esteem in Black children is a direct result of what they have not been taught about who they were. Although knowledge of self...
Muhammad ibn Tumart: The First Leader of the Almohads
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]uhammad ibn Tumart (ca. 1080-1130) was a North African religious reformer who founded the Almohad movement in North Africa. His organization of Berber warriors...
George Bonga: African American fur trader
George Bonga was a fur trader of African-American and Native American heritage, and one of the first African Americans born in what is now Minnesota....
Antoney, Isabella, and Pedro: The “first” African Americans
“Your country? How come it yours? Before the Pilgrims landed we were here. Here we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours:...
Mary Ellen Pleasant : The Mother of California’s early civil rights movement
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]ary Ellen Pleasant was a 19th-century African American entrepreneur who used her fortune to further the abolitionist movement. She worked on the Underground Railroad...
Amelia Boynton Robinson: The Queen of Selma
“My idea, my belief, my intention is for the United States of America to be known as a UNITED States,” Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson is...
Marcus Mosiah Garvey: Jamaica’s first National Hero
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. (ONH) was a Jamaican-born Black nationalist who created a ‘Back to Africa’ movement in the United States. He became an inspirational...
Runoko Rashidi: The Pharaoh of Black History
Runoko Rashidi is an African American historian, anthropologist and public lecturer, and the world’s leading authority on the African presence in Asia, Australia, and the...