Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
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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...
George Wells Parker’s speech is still a classic. It was delivered to the Omaha Philosophical Society on April 1, 1917 and published in The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917....
Quamina Gladstone, commonly known as Quamina, was an African-born Guyanese man of Akan/Coromantee heritage and the father of...
Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson, those were the names of the four little...
In 1851, in Christiana, Pennsylvania, one of the earliest armed confrontations took place between a group of African-Americans and Euro-American abolitionists and a Maryland posse intent on capturing four fugitives hidden...
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...
“Revolution moves in a mysterious way, its wonders to perform.” –C.L.R. James “It was the first time in human history that enslaved people had destroyed a slave system, declared themselves rulers,...
“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…
