11 Black Men brutally murdered: The New York City Draft Riots
On July 13, 1863, anti-draft violence erupted in New York City, resulting in four days of bloodshed, arson, looting, and mayhem. The New York City...
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The Black Witches Of Salem
Three captive women were among the approximately 155 people accused of witchcraft in the infamous Salem witch trials of 1692. Two women were identified in...
Will and William West: The doppelgängers that sparked the beginning of fingerprinting in the USA
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...
New York Maafa Uprising of 1712
In the firelit streets, captive Africans move as one—armed, resolute, and unbowed—turning a city built on their bondage into a battlefield for freedom....
Soledad Brothers
The Soledad Brothers—George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgoole, and John Clutchette—were three African-American men accused of murdering a Euro-American prison guard at California’s Soledad Prison on January...
The War of The Golden Stool
“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...
They came before the Moors
According to historian Ivan Van Sertima, drawing on the 17th‑century writer al‑Makkari and early Spanish chroniclers, an African dynasty ruled parts of Spain for 157...
The Black Race, The Guardian of Water – a Native American prophecy?
There was the cycle of the mineral, the rock. There was the cycle of the plant. And now we are in the cycle of the...