Civil Rights Icon Jean Mcguire Recovers After Being Stabbed Multiple Times In Boston

Civil Rights Icon Jean Mcguire Recovers After Being Stabbed Multiple Times In Boston

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 Playstead Park at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday (Oct. 11) when she was approached and stabbed five times by an unidentified individual. Bailey is thought to have assisted McGuire in … Read more

George Floyd’s Family Sues Kanye West For $250m For Saying He Died From Drug Abuse

George Floyd’s Family Sues Kanye West For $250m For Saying He Died From Drug Abuse

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 than police violence.  According to a press release, Roxie Washington, Floyd’s daughter’s mother, will sue Ye for $250 million for harassment, misappropriation, defamation, and infliction of emotional distress. (Washington … Read more

History Of The African Americans Who Participated In The California Gold Rush (1848-1860)

History Of The African Americans Who Participated In The California Gold Rush (1848-1860)

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 Marshall’s discovery, thousands of people flocked to the goldfields in Northern California’s Sierra Nevada foothills. By 1860, at least 4,000 African Americans had arrived in California in search of … Read more

Meet Thomas Elkins, Inventor Of The Improved Refrigerator Among Other Inventions

Meet Thomas Elkins, Inventor Of The Improved Refrigerator Among Other Inventions

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 1850s. During the latter part of his life, he also made significant contributions to the development of refrigeration techniques and patented several inventions for other household furniture items. Elkins, … Read more

Remembering Prof. Akin Mabogunje, The Father Of African Geography

Remembering Prof. Akin Mabogunje, The Father Of African Geography

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 has a responsibility to Akin Mabogunje to work toward his goal of creating truly welcoming urban environments. In Kano State on October 18th, 1931, Professor Akinlawon Ladipo “Akin” Mabogunje … Read more

Meroe in Sudan was the Capital of the Kushite Empire

Meroe In Present Day Sudan Was The Capital Of The Kushite Empire

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 Sudan. Kush was a northern African kingdom whose influence spread between c. 1069 BCE and 350 CE. Although the wider region around Kush, which was later called Nubia, was … Read more

Benin Bronzes Get Final Berlin Exhibition, For Money, Before Return To Nigeria

Benin Bronzes Get Final Berlin Exhibition, For Money, Before Return To Nigeria

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 final time on Saturday before being repatriated to Nigeria. The renowned pieces of African art and their turbulent journey up to the exhibition at the Humboldt Museum reflect Germany’s … Read more

Meet Isaac R. Johnson, Black Man Who Invented And Patented The Dismountable Bicycle Frame

Meet Isaac R. Johnson, Black Man Who Created And Patented The Foldable Bicycle Frame

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 by patenting the bicycle frame. Isaac R. Johnson was born sometime in 1812 in New York. While he was not the first to invent the bicycle frame, he was … Read more

How Slavery Formed And Defined America’s Oldest And Most Elite Colleges

How Slavery Formed And Defined America’s Oldest And Most Elite Colleges1

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 wealthy Rhode Island merchants who named the university, were “not major slave traders, but they were not strangers to the business either.” So you’d think Brown — or … Read more

Meet Harriet Russell Who Went From Slavery To Real Estate Entrepreneur In 19th-Century California

Meet Harriet Russell Who Went From Slavery To Real Estate Entrepreneur In 19th-Century California

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 Americas, two million enslaved men, women, and children died. It was the beginning of several hours of work on large plantations with little food and never having to forget … Read more

Dr. Levi Watkins Jr: The First To Implant An Automatic Defibrillator Into A Human Heart, In 1980

Dr. Levi Watkins Jr The First To Implant An Automatic Defibrillator Into A Human Heart, In 1980

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 surgery professor and associate dean at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Watkins was born in Parsons, Kansas, but spent his childhood in Montgomery, Alabama. He went … Read more

Meet George Edwin Taylor, The First African-American To Run For The President Of The United States Of America In 1904

Meet George Edwin Taylor, The First Africa-America To Run For The Presidency Of The United States Of America In 1904

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 political party to be its candidate for the presidency of the United States. Taylor was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on August 4, 1857, to Amanda Hines and Bryant … Read more

18-year-old Homeless Boy Who Became School’s Best Student And Won Full-Ride Scholarship To Harvard In 2018

18-year-old Homeless Boy BecomeS school’s best student And Wins Full-Ride Scholarship To Harvard

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 2018. Richard Jenkins and his family spent the majority of their childhood in homeless shelters. They were evicted from their home owing to foreclosure and ended up homeless for … Read more

The Vadoma People Of Zimbabwe Who Have Ostrich Toes, Said To Be Descended From Aliens Thousands Of Years Ago

The Vadoma People Of Zimbabwe Who Have Ostrich Toes, Said To Be Descended From Aliens Thousands Of Years Ago

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 social conditioning. The Vadoma people are the only ancient African ethnic nationalities in the world who have this rare and unique type of toes. Their people are also known … Read more

Jonathan Jasper Wright: The First African American To Serve As A State Supreme Court Judge (1840-1885)

Jonathan Jasper Wright The First African American To Serve As A State Supreme Court Judge (1840-1885)

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 state’s northeastern corner. In 1858, Wright moved to Ithaca, New York, and enrolled in the Lancasterian Academy, a school where older students assisted in the education of younger students. … Read more

Matthias de Sousa: The First African American Officeholder In Colonial America, Maryland, 1641

Matthias de Sousa The First African American Officeholder In Colonial America, Maryland, 1641

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 legislative body in the United States. De Sousa arrived in St Mary’s City, St Clements Island, Maryland, in 1634 as one of nine indentured servants working for Father Andrew … Read more

George Alcorn Inventor of the Imaging X-ray Spectrometer, With 20 extra inventions and 8 Patents

George Alcorn Inventor of the Imaging X-ray Spectrometer, With 20 extra inventions and 8 Patents

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 a Ph.D. in atomic and molecular physics. Alcorn also worked for Philco-Ford, Perkin-Elmer, IBM, and NASA, created over 20 different inventions, and was granted eight patents. Despite his impressive … Read more

Meet Valerie Thomas, Who Invented The Illusion Transmitter In 1976

Meet Valerie Thomas, Who Invented The Illusion Transmitter In 1976

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 operations, programs, and facilities. Thomas’ team led the development of “Landsat,” the first satellite to relay photographs from space while overseeing a project for NASA’s image processing systems. In … Read more

Meet James E. West, Who Co-Invented The Electret Microphone In 1964

Meet James E. West, Who Co-Invented The Electret Microphone In 1964

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 his colleague Dr. Gerhard M. Sessler to develop the foil electret microphone.  Until then, most microphones, which convert sound into an electrical signal, required a large and expensive battery … Read more

Frederick Jones Invented The Refrigerator Used In Trucks, Ships, and Airplanes + 60 other Patents

Frederick Jones Invented the Refrigerator Used In Trucks, Ships, and Airplanes + 60 other Patents

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 also evokes pride, especially for Black people. His achievements in the field of science and technology are so outstanding, that you might be tempted to name him the Black … Read more

Story Of Alexander Miles Who Invented Automatic Elevator Doors In 1887

Story Of Alexander Miles Who Invented Automatic Elevator Doors In 1887

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 could open and close its own doors and the elevator shaft doors. The doors would move automatically when the elevator arrived or left a specific floor. Previously, the elevator … Read more

Benin Republic Unveils 98 Feet Tall Statue In Honor Of The Women Warrior Of Dahomey

Benin Republic Unveils 98 Feet Tall Statue In Honor Of The Women Warrior Of Dahomey

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 cinema, their homeland has immortalized them in bronze. The ‘Esplanade des Amazones’ is a public square in the Benin capital of Cotonou. It is home to the ‘Amazon,’ a … Read more

The Story Of Eleni, Ethiopian Queen Who Became One Of The Nation’s Most Brilliant Military Leaders

The Story Of Eleni, Ethiopian Queen Who Became One Of The Nation’s Most Brilliant Military Leaders

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 country. They were defending Ethiopia’s sovereignty by carrying arms or participating in war expeditions against foreign invaders while also assisting in the administration of affairs. According to history, between … Read more

11-Year-Old Boy Who Launched a Golf Apparel Company to Cope with His Autism Has Been Given a Full Scholarship to Florida Memorial University

11-Year-Old Boy Who Launched a Golf Apparel Company to Cope with His Autism Has Been Given a Full Scholarship to Florida Memorial University

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 a full scholarship from Florida Memorial University earlier this month at the South Florida HBCU Golf Classic. Carter has established himself in the golf industry by launching a golf … Read more

The Brutal Waco Lynching Of Jesse Washington

The Brutal Waco Lynching Of Jesse Washington

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 in particular. Though emancipation resulted in the abolition of chattel slavery, blacks were no fewer victims of racism’s oppression. It could be argued that relations worsened during the early … Read more

How Ancient Africans Helped Civilize The Cave Men

How Ancient Africans Helped Civilize The Cave Men

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, or Caucasians, are a later addition to the human race. There was most likely not a single Caucasian on the planet 10,000 years ago. Archaeologists have discovered and documented … Read more

Father Makes Desperate Plea for Public’s Help to Find Missing Son, FBI Joins Local Law Enforcement In Search

Father Makes Desperate Plea for Public’s Help to Find Missing Son, FBI Joins Local Law Enforcement In Search

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 authorities in the search for the 20-year-old, who has been missing for more than a week. The FBI’s Oxford Field Office and the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office have joined … Read more

The Resilience Of Henrietta Henrietta Wood, Formerly Enslaved Who Sued Her Captor After 25 Years And Won

The Resilience Of Henrietta Henrietta Wood, Formerly Enslaved Who Sued Her Captor After 25 Years And Won

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. Formerly enslaved Henrietta Henrietta Wood had sued Zebulon Ward, a white man who had kidnapped and enslaved her some 25 years ago. She was seeking $20,000 in damages. Arthur, her … Read more

Voodoo Empowered Enslaved Africans To Defeat European Colonizers In The Haitian Revolution

Voodoo Empowered Enslaved Africans To Defeat European Colonizers In The Haitian Revolution

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 one of the few areas of unlimited autonomy for African slaves.” It was a source of psychological liberation as a religion and a crucial spiritual force because it allowed … Read more

The African Origins Of Baphomet And How Europeans Turned It Into An “Evil” Symbol

The African Origins Of Baphomet And How Europeans Turned It Into An “Evil” Symbol

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” from Egypt? Levi was already influenced by the Occult Sciences disclosed by melanated geniuses in Egypt’s Priesthoods. Do you believe he chose a goat as his “magical” symbol by … Read more

Legend Of Medusa: Story Of European Fear Of Black Women With Spiritual Power, Like The Sibyls

Legend Of Medusa Story Of European Fear Of Black Women With Spiritual Power, Like The Sibyls

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 different plausible explanations littered throughout history. As we become more conscious, we know that made-up legends and narratives can be exploited to damage a people’s reputation in order for … Read more

Brooklyn Judge Overturns Convictions of Three Men Jailed With ‘Questionable’ Police Tactics And False Confessions In 1996

Brooklyn Judge Overturns Convictions of Three Men Jailed With ‘Questionable’ Police Tactics And False Confessions In 1996

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 after prosecutors discovered evidence of misconduct by the case’s primary detectives. Thomas Malik, James Irons, and Vincent Ellerbe were 18 and 17 years old, respectively, when they admitted to … Read more

Bahamians Were Among The First Settlers In Miami – Here Is Their History You May Not Know

Bahamians Were Among The First Settlers In Miami – Here Is Their History You May Not Know

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 them. The first name on the municipal charter was that of a Black man named Silas Austin. In reality, Bahamians, Haitians, the Caribbean Diaspora, and African Americans all contributed … Read more

Remembering The Lynching Of Two Black Men And Their Pregnant Wives In Georgia, In 1946

Remembering The Lynching Of Two Black Men And Their Pregnant Wives In Georgia, In 1946

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 platform. This is a harrowing description of how four African American sharecroppers were killed on July 25, 1946, near Moore’s Ford in northeast Georgia. The event is now known … Read more

The 1992 ‘Watts Truce’ Between Bloods And Crips, Vowing To Reduce Violence And Challenge Police Brutality, In Los Angeles, California

The 1992 ‘Watts Truce’ Between Bloods And Crips, Vowing To Reduce Violence And Challenge Police Brutality, In Los Angeles, California

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 Truce took place just a few days before the Rodney King Riots. This truce played an important role in the reduction in street violence in Los Angeles following the 1990s. … Read more

Black Woman Who Bankrupted The KKK For Lynching Her 19-Year-Old Son, Michael Donald In 1981

Black Woman Who Bankrupted The KKK For Lynching Her 19-Year-Old Son, Michael Donald In 1981

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 in Mobile, Alabama (an Alabama faction of the KKK). At the time, the United Klans of America was one of the country’s largest and most dangerous organizations. The horrific … Read more

Emmett Till Protesters Search North Carolina Senior Home For Woman Accused In His Death After Finding Unserved Arrest Warrant

Emmett Till Protesters Search North Carolina Senior Home For Woman Accused In His Death After Finding Unserved Arrest Warrant

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 arrest the lady at the core of his murder weeks after the discovery of a warrant issued for her arrest nearly 70 years ago. The campaigners hope that local … Read more

How Samuel T. Wilcox Acquired Wealth By Building A Grocery Empire Never Seen Before In America Before Slavery Was Abolished

How Samuel T. Wilcox Acquired Wealth By Building A Grocery Empire Never Seen Before In America Before Slavery Was Abolished

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 in eight Black males who were regarded as wealthy owned a barbershop with a net worth greater than $2,000 (more than $55,000 now). Some slaves acquired their barbering skills … Read more

Melanin Café: The Alabama Coffee Shop That Teaches Black History With Every Cup They Serve

Melanin Café The Alabama Coffee Shop That Teaches Black History With Every Cup They Serve

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 her husband Jakyra Hixon and features drinks with names of what she says are lesser-known Black contributors and landmarks. For instance, the espresso coffee “Check-Up” with coconut-vanilla flavor honors … Read more

Meet Solitude, The Great Warrior Woman Of Guadeloupe Who Fought Against French Troops In 1802 While Pregnant

Meet Solitude, The Great Warrior Woman Of Guadeloupe Who Fought Against French Troops In 1802 While Pregnant

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 an African woman who was allegedly raped while traveling on the slave ship, and her father was a French sailor. Solitude was born in slavery in the plantations of … Read more

Remembering The Black Veteran With Bipolar Disorder Murdered By White Cops Inside His Own Home – Kenneth Chamberlain Sr

Remembering The Black Veteran With Bipolar Disorder Murdered By White Cops Inside His Own Home - Kenneth Chamberlain Sr

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 medical alert company received the alert. The operator called the White Plains, New York, authorities when Chamberlain didn’t respond. Officers were sent to his home to see how he … Read more

Texas Educators Planned To Have ‘Slavery’ Renamed As ‘Involuntary Relocation’ -An Attempt To Whitewash The Truth

Texas Educators Planned To Have ‘Slavery’ Renamed As ‘Involuntary Relocation’ -An Attempt To Whitewash The Truth

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 created by a designated work group for the Texas State Board of Education, according to the Texas Tribune. The panel was instructed to incorporate the study of slavery into … Read more

Two White London Police Officers Fired For Sharing Racist Text About Meghan Markle

Two White London Police Officers Fired For Sharing Racist Text About Meghan Markle

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 the comments compared Meghan Markle to a racist caricature toy. PC Sukhdev Jeer and PC Paul Hefford, who was fired, worked for the Metropolitan Police’s Forensic Services division. According … Read more

Meet The Senegalese Woman Behind The First Baby Food Brand Fully Produced In Senegal – Iny Samba

Meet The Senegalese Woman Behind The First Baby Food Brand Fully Produced In Senegal

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 of R&D engineer at Danone’s Blédina, the baby food branch of French food multinational Danone. She previously held the position of R&D engineer at Danone’s Blédina, the baby food … Read more

Black People Who Celebrate July 4th Are Ignorant Or Traitors Or Both – Opinion By Coard

Black People Who Celebrate July 4th Are Ignorant Or Traitors Or Both - Opinion By Coard

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 slavery. And even then, it wasn’t that long ago. In reality, it was just contemporary history until the passing of former President Ronald Reagan in 2004—a mere 17 years … Read more

As A Black American, I Don’t Celebrate The Fourth Of July – Do You?

As A Black American, I Don't Celebrate The Fourth Of July – Do You

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 the historical studies in school about America’s independence. The cookouts with meats sizzling on the grill and the festive atmosphere of sharing meals with relatives I haven’t seen in … Read more

1955 Warrant For The White Woman Who Caused Emmett Till’s Death Found; Family Wants Her In Handcuffs

1955 Warrant For The White Woman Who Caused Emmett Till’s Death Found; Family Wants Her In Handcuffs

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 relatives are requesting that she be detained for her part in the terrible crime, which stands as a symbol of racial injustice. The kidnapping warrant was discovered last week … Read more

Archaeologists Discover A 9th Century Yoruba City With Incredible Architecture & History – Eredo

Archaeologists Discover A 9th Century Yoruba City With Incredible Architecture & History - Eredo

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 Nigerian rainforest, lies the relics of what is arguably one of the most impressive monuments in sub-Saharan Africa: an extensive, 100-mile-long wall and moat which was constructed some 1,000 … Read more

3 African Scholars Who Were Abducted, Shipped To, And Enslaved in The U.S.

3 African Scholars Who Were Abducted, Shipped To, And Enslaved in The U.S.

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 15 million Africans were transported from Africa to labor on plantations in the Americas as a result of the trade. After the Portuguese began exploring the West Coast of … Read more

The 1976 Assassination Attempt On Bob Marley And Wife Rita That Nearly Took Their Lives

The 1976 Assassination Attempt On Bob Marley And Wife Rita That Nearly Took Their Lives

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 was regarded as reggae’s leading exponent. However, tensions in his home country of Jamaica were anything but calm. Citizens were poor, and followers of Michael Manley’s ruling People’s National … Read more

The Barbaric Lynching Of Henry Smith In Front Of 15,000 White People In 1893

The Barbaric Lynching Of Henry Smith In Front Of 15,000 White People In 1893

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 earliest documented public lynchings. Ida B. Wells, a journalist, and anti-lynching activist was struck by the heinousness of Smith’s execution. In her groundbreaking essay The Red Record, which … Read more

How The Reproductive Systems of Thousands of African Americans were Removed Through Eugenics In The 20th Century

How The Reproductive Systems of Thousands of African Americans were Removed Through Eugenics In The 20th Century

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 and other ethnic minorities. One of such practices was the Eugenics programme, which started in America before world war II.  It was basically the sterilization or removal of the … Read more

Meet The African-American Family Who Produced Automobile Cars In The Early 1900s – C.R. Patterson and Sons Carriage Company

Meet The African-American Family Who Produced Automobile Cars In The Early 1900s

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 and African-American schools were manipulated and created in a way to make sure that the African child, man/woman, does not learn about the technological greatness of his/her ancestors, and … Read more

700,000 Ancient African Books Have Survived In Mali’s Timbuktu University

700,000 Ancient African Books Have Survived In Mali's Timbuktu University

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 collections, with some dating back to at least the 8th century AD, this perception has gradually lost popularity. Just about 250,000 old manuscripts from the libraries of Timbuktu still … Read more

How Enslaved Africans Were Used For Heinous Medical Experiments in America In The South

How Enslaved Africans Were Used For Henious Medical Experiments in America In The South

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 till today, in America, the less privileged in the society, majorly people of African descent are used as test subjects in various experiments. African Americans were easy targets for … Read more

The Biggest Disaster Of Colonialism Remains The Image of God Africans Now See

The Biggest Disaster Of Colonialism Remains The Image of God Africans Now See

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 out of context and misunderstood. Our brethren who hold blindly to the teachings and ways of the colonial masters accuse us of all kinds of things in their attempt … Read more

The Aggressive Emasculation of the Negro Man: The Latest Assault On Our Race

The Aggressive Emasculation of the Negro Man - The Latest Assault on Our Race

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 by some forces to rid him of his power and glory, and reduce him to a joke of his ancestry. You see, the Negro Man remains the strongest willed … Read more

The Maji Maji Rebellion Of Tanzanians Against German Brutality 1905 to 1907

The Maji Maji Rebellion Of Tanzanians Against German Brutality 1905 to 1907

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 Uprising involved indigenous African people living inside over 10,000 square miles and lasted two years. During the “scramble for Africa” that took place in Berlin in 1885, European powers … Read more

The Story of George Stinney Jr, 14-year Black Boy Who Was Electrocuted With 5,380 volts For a Crime He Didn’t Commit

The Story of George, A 14-year Black Boy Who Was Electrocuted With 5,380 volts For a Crime He Didn’t Commit

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 of the most glaring pieces of evidence of hate for the Black man in America. Who would kill a little boy, knowing deep down he was innocent? Your guess … Read more

14 Black Inventors Who The World Owes Gratitude For Their Inventions

12 Black Inventors Who The World Owes Gratitude For Their Inventions

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 year round, and not just a topic to be discussed during black history month. In a world where African American history has become a threat to so many circles, … Read more

Jesus Has Done Nothing To Save Africa From European Wickedness In The Past 137 Years

Jesus Has Done Nothing To Save Africa From European Wickedness In The past 137 years

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 inflicted on them by corrupt politicians, and greedy European interests in Africa. Every corner you turn to in Africa, you find people on their knees wailing and begging “a supposed … Read more

4 African Kings Who Were Exiled To Seychelles For Their Bravery In Fighting European Colonialists

4 African Kings Who Were Exiled To Seychelles For Their Bravery In Fighting European Colonialists

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 more profitable for the Europeans and Americans, and they had to focus on other resources that would enrich their countries and thrones. Between 1820 and 1911 in the 19th … Read more

Africans Discovered America Around 1292 BC, Not Columbus – Read The Complete History

Africans Discovered America Around 1292 BC, Not Columbus - Read The Complete History

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 four separate voyages to discover the so-called new world, Columbus landed on various Caribbean islands that are now known as the Bahamas as well as the island later called … Read more

Meet Black Woman Who Invented The GPS (Global Positioning System) – Dr. Gladys West

Meet Black Woman Who Invented The GPS Global Positioning System Dr Gladys West

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 between societies and people. Over human history, people have had to move from familiar to none familiar locations, for various reasons. The movement of people from one location to … Read more

How The British Nearly Eliminated The Entire Aborigine Tasmanian Population Of Australia In The 1800s

How The British Nearly Eliminated The Entire Aborigine Tasmanian Population Of Australia In The 1800s

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 all corners of the earth. There were indigenous or migrated Black populations all over Europe, Asia, America, and other parts of the world. But as we continue to dig … Read more

Meet Jesse Eugene Russell, The Black Man Who Invented The Digital Cell Phone

Meet Jesse Eugene Russell The Black Man Who Invented The Digital Cell Phone

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 hidden, under-appreciated, and belittled. Today in Africa, millions of Africans attribute the invention of the smartphone (among many other things) to the Europeans. They do not know that the … Read more

How Bridges Were Built Over Crocodile-Infested Rivers By African Pygmies In Central Africa In The1930s [Video]

How Bridges Were Built Over Crocodile Infested Rivers By African Pygmies In Central Africa In The1930s Video

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 African tribes, and Leprechaun by Europeans. The name Leprechaun comes from the old Irish ‘luchorpán’, which is a compound name composed of lú meaning ‘small’ and corp meaning ‘body’. … Read more

How German Government Murdered Over 100,000 Namibian People In A Genocide In 1904-1908

How German Government Murdered Over 100,000 Namibian People In A Genocide In 1904-1908

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 or tell, but we will talk about them nonetheless. At the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, various European nations agreed among themselves to invade Africa, and take up territories forcefully, … Read more

How King Leopold II Of Belgium Killed 10 Million Africans In The Congo – Read the Harrowing Details

How King Leopold II Of Belgium Killed 10 Million Africans In The Congo - Read the Harrowing Details

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 to make Europe richer. King Leopold II of Belgium, through his employed conquerors, set sail for Congo and declared it to be his territory while exerting physical threats to … Read more

The British-Igbo War That Lasted For 31 years – The Ekumeku Movement

The British Igbo War That Lasted For 31 years The Ekumeku Movement

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 in the trade with coastal cities before and during the 19th century, made bold their intentions to covet resources and rule over indigenous nations all over Africa. They came … Read more

Africans Are BLACK People – Never Let Caucasian Definitions Influence Your Understanding Of Who You Are

Africans Are Black People Never Let Caucasian Definitions Influence Your Understanding Of Who You Are

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 understanding and use of the word BLACK when referring to Africans worldwide. Please know that there are two meanings to the word BLACK – one is derogatory and created … Read more

Meet Thomas Fuller, Enslaved African Mathematical Genius, Who Was Known As The ‘Virginia Calculator’

Meet Thomas Fuller Enslaved African Mathematical Genius Who Was Known As The Virginia Calculator

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 the first humans on earth and paving the path for subsequent civilizations. Littered all over human history are pieces of evidence of our exceptionalism – a testament to our … Read more

100 Ancient Facts You Did Not Know About Africa – Civilization Started In Africa

100 Ancient Facts You Did Not Know About Africa – Civilization Started In Africa

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 how Africa was a primitive civilization with no inventions and contributions to human development. But many of these accounts are false to a certain degree. This article does not … Read more

For the Ìgbò, 15th January Should Not Be Armed Forces Remembrance Day

For the Ìgbò 15th January Should Not Be Armed Forces Remembrance Day

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 of January every year, we as Ndị Ìgbò (of Biafra), must remember our people (soldiers and civilians alike) who gave up their lives that our bloodline may continue. It … Read more

Black Man Who Designed Washinton DC And Invented The Clock – Benjamin Banneker

Black Man Who Designed Washinton DC and Invented The Clock [Benjamin Banneker]

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. By the works of their hands, labor, ingenuity, and suffering, Black people made America great. Although the American and world educational system does little in recognizing these contributions, we … Read more

The Power In Our Names As Africans: Bearing A European Name Is Holding Unto The Shackles Of Slavery

The Power In Our Names As Africans Bearing A European Name Is Holding Unto The Shackles Of Slavery

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 heritage, the power in our names as Africans, and who express their anger and distaste about the wickedness of the Caucasian world to Black people. There are more and … Read more

Racism: America Now One Of The Most Unsafe Countries For Blacks In The World

Racism America Now One Of The Most Unsafe Countries For Blacks In The World

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 to say that “Blacks will never be seen as equals, or accepted fully by white people in America.” The constant brutality, incarcerations, segregation and disenfranchisement handed out to Black … Read more

Africa’s Continued Exploitation By The West And The Powerlessness Of The Black Man In The Face Of An Unjust UN

Africas Continued Exploitation By The West And The Powerlessness Of The Black Man In The Face Of An Unjust UN

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 Earth. I am often confused as to why the world is made to believe that Africa relies so much on foreign aid. Even Africans themselves believe that they can’t … Read more

Remembering The Fake American Doctor Sued For The Death of Hundreds Of Ugandan Children – Renee Bach

Remembering The Fake American Doctor Sued For The Death of Hundreds Of Ugandan Children - Renee Bach

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 our future generations that we abandoned the medical science of our ancestors and left the care of our women and children in the hands of foreigners? What is even … Read more

Story of Enslaved African And Double Agent Who Helped Win The American Revolution – James Armistead

Story of Enslaved African And Double Agent Who Helped Win The American Revolution James Armistead

“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 colonial army fought in the Battle of Yorktown. This was the final and arguably most consequential war for the American army. This war ended in the surrender of British … Read more

African Ancestors Were Not Evil – European Terrorists Killed And Sold Us & Went Ahead To Call Us Barbaric

African Ancestors Were Not Evil – European Terrorists Killed And Sold Us & Went Ahead To Call Us Barbaric

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 our people and our African heritage. And this lie is a most annoying one. Who could imagine that European conquerors who killed, raped, and maimed millions of Africans could … Read more

The Noble Role Of African American Soldiers In World War II Under Intense Discrimination And Racism

The Noble Role Of African American Soldiers In World War II Under Intense Discrimination And Racism

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 is recounted. Despite the continuous racism and discrimination faced by African Americans, the truth remains that the black man in America has sacrificed greatly in building America to where … Read more