Catching up with Dr. Runoko Rashidi
“We’ve survived colonization and enslavement and when you consider what we have gone through, the fact that we are here to have this conversation is...
Tag : Black Presence in Europe
Abram Petrovich Hannibal: A Nobleman of Russia
Abram Petrovich Hannibal also Gannibal or Ganibal was stolen from his parents in Afrika and brought to Russia as a gift for Peter I. Hannibal...
Angelo Soliman: Father of Pure Masonic Thought
Angelo Soliman who achieved considerable fame as a “Princely Moor” in eighteenth-century Vienna, is historically recognized by some as the “First Moorish Freemason.” Soliman was...
Anna Olga Albertina Brown: 19th Century Circus Performer
Anna Olga Albertina Brown was a famous 19th century circus performer known as Miss Lala. Lala was born on April 21st, 1858 in the former...
Zamor: The Black Jacobin
Zamor was a French revolutionary of Bengali origin, who as a boy of eleven, was sold into slavery in the household of Louis XV’s mistress,...
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Black British Composer and Political Activist
“Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is today all but forgotten in the country of his birth. The works of this talented composer are now out of fashion; and...
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...