Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
The Register of the Treasury was an office of the United States Treasury Department. The signature of the...
On January 1, 1923 a massacre was carried out in Rosewood, a town with about 150 residents. Rosewood...
On November 18, 1978, in what became known as the “Jonestown Massacre,” more than 900 members of an American cult called the Peoples Temple died in a mass suicide-murder under the...
The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 was a politically motivated attack by European-Americans against the city’s leading African American...
The Ocoee massacre, considered the “single bloodiest day in modern American political history,” was a violent race riot...
Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson, those were the names of the four little girls who were murdered on September 15th, 1963, when the Ku Klux Klan...
In 1851, in Christiana, Pennsylvania, one of the earliest armed confrontations took place between a group of African-Americans...
On August 28, 1963, over 250,000 demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., for the historic March on Washington for...
[dropcap size=small]H[/dropcap]urricane Katrina which formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclones of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was also the...
“As the black spot passed over the sun, so shall the Blacks pass over the earth.” – Nat...
“Your country? How come it yours? Before the Pilgrims landed we were here. Here we have brought our...
Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were two African American men who were lynched on August 7, 1930, in Marion, Indiana, after being taken from jail and beaten by a mob. They...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
