Jean McGuire is recovering after being stabbed numerous times in Boston in what investigators call an unjustified attack. McGuire and her dog Bailey were walking in...
Little is known about Judy W. Reed, the first African American woman to be granted a patent in the United States. Judy Reed sought for a...
Ye is confronted with the Kan-sequences. The family of George Floyd intends to sue rapper Kanye West for falsely alleging Floyd was killed by fentanyl rather...
The California Gold Rush, which lasted from 1848 to 1860, began on January 24, 1848, when carpenter and sawmill operator James W. Marshall discovered gold. Following...
Dr. Thomas Elkins, an inventor, abolitionist, and trained medical professional, was a key supporter of the Underground Railroad in Albany, New York, during the 1840s and...
African urbanization scholars, everyday Nigerians, and policymakers have a responsibility to do more than just honor the man who pioneered modern building regulations. The African continent...
Archaeological findings and historical documents have indicated that the ancient city of Meroe was the capital of the kingdom of Kush, which is now in present-day...
Stolen during the colonial era, dozens of Benin bronzes that once adorned the Kingdom of Benin’s royal palace will be on display in Berlin for the...
It was difficult for an African American to patent an invention, especially in the late 1800s. On October 10, 1899, Isaac R. Johnson overcame this challenge...
Brown University commissioned a study of its own historical connection to the Atlantic slave trade a few years ago. According to the report, the Brown family,...
The Kanem-Bornu Empire was an African trading empire that was ruled by the Sef (Sayf) dynasty that controlled a large swathe of the regions around Lake...
In this article, we are going to delve into the interesting history of the Benin art of the medieval ages. Being art is the art ascribed...
Between 1515 and the mid-nineteenth century, more than 12 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic to work as slaves. On their way to the...
Her parents were a free white woman and an enslaved Black man. Jenny Slew was thus raised free and lived her entire life as a free...
Although this might come to you as a surprise, there is well-documented evidence that the City of Ile fie, an ancient urban center, and the cradle...
Yoruba Metal Art: There is well-documented evidence that iron smelting and forging technologies may have existed in West Africa among the Nok people of Nigeria as...
While western and Chinese tech billionaires and captains of industries are considered some of the world’s richest men today, the title of the richest man that...
Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., a cardiac surgeon, was the first to implant an automatic defibrillator into a human heart in 1980. He was also a cardiac...
George Edwin Taylor, born in the pre-Civil War South to a free mother and an enslaved father, would become the first African American chosen by a...
Richard Jenkins, an 18-year-old homeless teenager, fought over all of his high school classmates to win the best student title and a scholarship to Harvard, in...
The mysteries of the world we live in are often in plain sight, and many times humans overlook them, as they chase other flimsy trends and...
Jonathan Jasper Wright, the state’s first African American Supreme Court justice, was born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and grew up in nearby Susquehanna County in the...
Matthias de Sousa, an indentured servant, was the colonial Maryland legislature’s only black member. As such, he is the first African American to serve in any...
Few inventors have as impressive a resume as George Edward Alcorn. Among his accomplishments are a B.A. in physics, a master’s degree in nuclear physics, and...
Valerie Thomas worked with NASA from 1964 until 1995 in a number of roles, including developing real-time computer data systems, conducting large-scale experiments, and managing numerous...
James Edward Maceo West’s work revolutionized how people around the world hear and transmit sound. In 1962, West, then a Bell Laboratories research scientist, collaborated with...
Frederick Jones Invented the Refrigerator, Worldwide: The story of Frederick Jones is one that inspires anyone who comes across it to strive to achieve more, and...
Alexander Miles, who contributed to the elevator industry, was a late-nineteenth-century African-American inventor who broke down racial barriers in the United States. Miles created an elevator that...
The Amazons of Dahomey are the world’s only documented female army and one of the world’s unsolved mysteries. While the West turns their story into fetishized...
Many years ago, when most women around the world were relegated to housework, Ethiopian women were becoming increasingly involved in their national duty of protecting their...
A scholarship from a historically Black college and the university will pay for an 11-year-old Florida boy’s college education. Carter Bonas, a Coral Springs entrepreneur, received...
For over three centuries, violence and white supremacy have coexisted in the United States. This was how whites maintained economic, social, and political dominance over blacks...
The original, the founders of civilization, the mothers and fathers of Humanity, and the initial people on earth were the Black (Melanated) Man and Woman. Europeans,...
An entire Mississippi community is on high alert in the hope of finding a missing college student. The family has requested the assistance of local police...
The date was April 17, 1878. A jury of 12 white men arrived in an Ohio federal courthouse to deliver the verdict in a slavery lawsuit....
Brown University’s Kona Shen outlines in detail how voodoo played a crucial part during the Haitian Revolution in History of Haiti: “Despite strict regulations, voodoo was...
The popular image we now know as “Baphomet” was designed by Eliphas Levi, but did you know that the symbol was influenced by “The Goat Of Mendes”...
The quest to properly comprehend why there has always been dislike of Africans by Europeans and Arabs for millennia continues to open our eyes and minds to...
Three New York men who spent more than 25 years in jail for the heinous murder of a subway token clerk had their convictions overturned recently...
When the city of Miami was created in 1896, historians estimate that 367 individuals voted to make it a city. There were 162 Black residents among...
This is one of the most heartbreaking and upsetting narratives of lynchings in American history that we have had to report during our time as a...
The Watts Truce was a peace deal reached between the Blood and Crips street gangs in Los Angeles, California, mostly in the Watts district. The Watts...
One of the two men, Muhammad Aziz, who was cleared last year of murdering civil rights activist Malcolm X in 1965, has sued New York, asking...
According to Variety, the British-Ugandan actor Daniel Kaluuya won’t be appearing in the Black Panther sequel when it hits theaters later this year. In the 2018...
It is heartbreaking to realize that the system of secret-killing and lynching of Black people in America, which existed for over 400 years of slavery and...
On March 21, 1981, Michael Donald, the 19-year-old son of Beulah Mae Donald, was kidnapped, assaulted, and lynched by members of the United Klans of America...
Protesters seeking justice for Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy killed in Mississippi in 1955, crossed state lines to voice their fury at police failing to...
For a long time, the black community has been marching, protesting, and demanding justice. For a long time, we have been killed by the police. The...
Before slavery was abolished, in the 1800s, owning a barbershop was a popular economic venture for Black men looking to become wealthy. According to the Cut, one...
Every cup of coffee that Melanin Café customers in Alabama receive has a dash of Black history. The Opelika-based café was started by Catrice Hixon and...
Solitude’s final words before being put to death for her part in the Guadeloupe slave uprising in 1802 were “Live free or die.” Her mother was...
On November 19, 2011, Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., a 68-year-old former Marine with bipolar disorder and a cardiac condition, unintentionally turned on his medical alert device. The...
Recently, a group of educators proposed that slavery be taught in second grade as “involuntary relocation” to the Texas State Board of Education. The idea was...
Following an investigation, it was found that two London police officers had shared “inexcusable” WhatsApp conversations, and they have been fired from the force. One of...
Senegalese businessman Iny Samba is the co-founder and CEO of Le Lionceau, the first infant food company created entirely in Senegal. She previously held the position...
The Fourth of July is a celebration of kidnapping, the buying, selling, and transportation of human beings, the severing of families, torture, rape, castration, lynching, and...
The Fourth of July is not really something I observe ~ Arielle Gray Growing up, I was never particularly moved by the beautiful fireworks display or...
Searchers have found an arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman whose accusation led to the murder of Emmett Till over 67 years ago. Donham’s...
Eredo, Yoruba Land: Just off the highway in this nondescript town, in a dirt path that meanders through the dense vegetation and trees of the heavy...
The historic Trans-Atlantic slave trade was one of the most heinous crimes against black people, resulting in the eviction of millions of Africans. Between 12 and...
According to the FBI, the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday, which left ten people dead and three more injured, is being investigated as...
They were among ten people killed in a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday, which investigators think was racially motivated. Thirteen people...
By 1976, Robert Nesta Marley and his Wailers band had become well-known and influential both in Jamaica, where they had many hits and internationally, where Marley...
The Lynching Of Henry Smith took place in front of an estimated 15,000 onlookers in Paris, Texas, on February 3, 1893. His death was one of...
The history of America is littered with some of the most atrocious humanitarian crimes ever committed against humans, with majority of the victims being African Americans...
While the west may have entrenched the erroneous belief that Africa was bereft of any form of education and civilization before the arrival of the colonialists,...
The advancement of Black people in the field of science and technology has been hidden for decades and centuries. The curriculums used in teaching in African...
Not until recently did most commentators on African literary history believe that African societies had any form of writing tradition. Since the rediscovery of ancient manuscript...
When the history of medicine and science is told in the world, the prowess and achievements of Black people are so numerous. Being descendants of the...
The use of enslaved Africans, both living and dead, as guinea pigs for extreme medical experiments is one practice that was rampant during slavery. And even...
We have said many times in many of our articles that there is no”white God” for Africans. But each time we say that we are quoted...
There is no gainsaying, that there is a malicious campaign against the consciousness and self-awareness of the Negro (African-Diaspora, African-American) man. There is an urgent need...
The most significant African challenge to German colonial rule during the brief period when Germany had African colonies was the Maji Maji Uprising in Tanganyika. The...
The story of George Stinney Jr is one that still melts the heart and causes deep anger whenever it is told. This, to me, is one...
The contributions of Black inventors to the technological advancement of the world is one subject that must always be in the spotlight of black history all...
There is a very strong notion and belief by African Christians that Jesus Christ will save them from suffering and reverse the many years of suffering...
By the 19th century, after the Berlin conference, there was great European hunger for the resources and lands of Africa. The transatlantic slave trade was no...
The world has been made to believe that Christopher Columbus discovered America. But sorry to break your heart, that is a whitewashed lie from hades. During...
Dr. Gladys West Invented The GPS (Global Positioning System): The movement of people from one location to the other has been the backbone of the interaction...
We have mentioned in many of our articles, that Black people were the first humans on this planet, and that Black people were originally found in...
The technological and scientific ingenuity of the Black race (and men such as Jesse Eugene Russell) has been one aspect of world history that has been...
This article and accompanying video showcase the magnificent power and ingenuity of the Twa people of Africa. They were also referred to as Akan by other...
During the brutal scramble for Africa and Africa’s resources, at least two million Africans were killed in the scramble for ivory tusks for piano keys and...
German Government Murdered Over 100,000 Namibian People: The atrocities and crimes against humanity which was perpetrated by the Europeans in Africa, are really painful to recount...
After the Berlin conference of 1884-1885, various European nations set out to mount their flags all over Africa, murder the people, and then steal their resources...
The common knowledge that all men were made from Adam and Eve and that the world started at the garden of Eden is completely false. Humans...
The resolutions of the Berlin conference of 1804-1805, gave European nations the rights to lay claims to lands and resources in Africa. Britain, who had engaged...
If your definition of BLACK aligns with the hateful compilation of negative and ugly words by Caucasians in the dictionary, then you might never appreciate my...
Thomas Fuller, The Virginia Calculator (LWA): In many of our articles and publications, we have strongly and boldly praised the ingenuity of the Black race, being...
Many people have been forced to believe the lies that Africans were living in caves and bushes before the colonizers came. Accounts have been given of...
It is the day Nigeria agreed to stop the Genocide of 1966-1970 against Ndị Ìgbò and our brothers of the Old Eastern State. On the 15th...
In the last 4 years of our existence as a platform that speaks up for Black people worldwide, we have come across so many accounts of...
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It is an indisputable fact that no one contributed more to the building of America than the black man. One of such men was Benjamin Banneker....
With every new day, there is an increasing number of Black people (both Africans, and African Diaspora), who want to know more about their history and...
When one looks at the history of racism in America, and how the conditions of Black people have remained the same over centuries, it is safe...
It is with a heavy heart that I often ponder on the way forward for the black man in the midst of his fellow humans of...
When will Africa wake up to realize that we have sold ourselves short among the commonwealth of nations? How can we be bold enough to tell...
“There would have no victory at Yorktown without James Armistead…” During the battle for American independence from British rule, in the autumn of 1781, the American...
The notion that our African ancestors were barbaric, and that they committed unthinkable atrocities is one of the biggest lies the European world has heaped on...
The sacrifices of African American Soldiers In World War II are worthy of praise whenever the history of America and that of the second world war...