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In 1993, The District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities commissioned a new memorial to African-American...
The United States Colored Troops (USCT) were regiments in the United States Army composed of African-American (colored) soldiers;...
We have noticed an error, which all journalists seem to make. Whether from mistake or ill-intention, we are unable to say, but the profession universally begins Negro with a small letter....
On July 13, 1863, anti-draft violence erupted in New York City, resulting in four days of bloodshed, arson,...
Three captive women were among the approximately 155 people accused of witchcraft in the infamous Salem witch trials...
Will and William West were doppelgangers who shared the same name and were both sentenced to jail at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas. Their remarkable case is believed to be part of...
The Soledad Brothers—George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgoole, and John Clutchette—were three African-American men accused of murdering a Euro-American prison...
“I must say this: if you, the men of Asante, will not go forward, then we will. We, the women, will. I shall call upon my fellow women. We will fight!...
According to historian Ivan Van Sertima, drawing on the 17th‑century writer al‑Makkari and early Spanish chroniclers, an African...
There was the cycle of the mineral, the rock. There was the cycle of the plant. And now...
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…
