The Chicago Defender: The most influential Black weekly newspaper in America
The Chicago Defender was the United States’ most influential Black weekly newspaper by the advent of World War I, with more than two-thirds of its...
Category : Black History
Black History from across the African World. African, African-American, African-Caribbean, Afro-Latino, Australasia, Black-British, Black-Canadian, Black Presence in Arabia, Asia and Europe.
The Scottsboro Boys: Nine young Black men falsely accused of rape
The Great Depression of the 1930s, threw millions of Americans out of work. During the depression years, Blacks and whytes routinely “hoboed” (hitchhiked) freight trains,...
Bloody Sunday: Selma
“They came with horses. They came with nightsticks. And I was standing, and people were running… I did not run, so he hit me at...
The Five African Americans whose signatures have appeared on US currency
The Register of the Treasury was an office of the United States Treasury Department. The signature of the Register of the Treasury appeared on United...
Hilter’s Black Victims
“No, you can’t have my life; I will fight for it.” January 27, is an annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims...
The Malê Revolt of Brazil
The most outstanding Maafa (Atlantic slavery) revolutionary movement in Brazil were the series of Islamic risings in Bahia from 1808 to 1835. The Malê uprising...
The Moor’s last sigh
On January 2, 1492, Moorish rulership of Spain came to an end when, Boabdil, the leader of the last Moorish City “Granada”, surrendered to armies...
The Rosewood Massacre
On January 1, 1923 a massacre was carried out in Rosewood, a town with about 150 residents. Rosewood was an all-black community, except for one...
The Aba Women’s War
The Aba Women’s Riot, also known as the Women’s War, was an insurrection in Nigeria when it was occupied by the British to redress social,...
The Jonestown Massacre
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...