“They came with horses. They came with nightsticks. And I was standing, and people were running… I did...
“I’ve been marked for death within the next five days.” By early 1965 most of Malcolm’s closest friends...
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 States paper money from 1861 until...
Noble Drew Ali, born Timothy Drew on January 8th, 1886, was the founder of the Moorish Science Temple...
John Singleton is the African American film director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing Boyz n the...
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 family. The massacre was instigated as...
Fred “Duke” Slater was the greatest African American football player of the first half of the 20th century....
Reginald F. Lewis, the owner of TLC Beatrice International, a $500 million European conglomerate in food processing and...
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 in a mass suicide-murder under the...
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...
Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson, those were the names of the four little girls who were murdered on September 15th, 1963, when the Ku Klux Klan...
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…
