New York Maafa Uprising of 1712
In the early 1700s, New York had one of the largest enslaved populations of any of England’s stolen territories. One out of every five New...
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.
Soledad Brothers
The Soledad Brothers were three African-American men charged with the murder of a white prison guard at California’s Soledad Prison on January 16, 1970. George...
Thomas J. Martin – The Fire Extinguisher
On March 26 1872, Thomas J Martin, an African-American, was granted a patent for his version of the fire extinguisher. Martin’s invention, listed in the...
Alexander Dumas: Alexandre the Greatest
[dropcap size=small]G[/dropcap]eneral Thomas Alexandre Dumas, called “Alexandre the Greatest” was the highest-ranking Black man of all time in a continental European army. He was the first Black...
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...
Happy 2014!!! Or Happy 6249!!!
“History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day.” –Dr. John Henrik Clarke As we celebrate the start...
They came before the Moors
According to Ivan Van Sertima, 11 African kings ruled Spain for 157 years, before the Muslim invasion of Spain in 711AD. Around 1070 BC, there...
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...