— ADVERTISEMENT — Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon in under two hours today in Vienna. He ran the 26.2-mile distance in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 40 seconds. Just let that soak in, let that soak in that he ran 4:34 minutes per mile for the whole race! WOW! Unfortunately, this will not count …
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We’ve covered the story of how an enslaved man, Nathan ‘Nearest’ Green, actually taught Jack Daniels how to make bourbon. He has been recognized in very small moves as the godfather of Tenessee Whiskey but it is still not mainstream knowledge. However, if you are a JD drinker it may now be time to switch. In …
The British education system conveniently leaves out a lot of its cruelest history and in my personal experience shys away from including any positiv influence from Black people before the 60s. But for many reasons the cold isles of Britain have had Black people wevaed into their history for some time, for good and for …
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It’s big news when a record set by none other than Usain Bolt is broken, especially when it is done so by a woman who gave birth less than a year ago! Of course, it wasn’t his 100m record but this is a HUGE feat none the less and oozes #BlackGirlMagic! Olympic sprinter Allyson Felix …
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This past weekend I visited the Royal Alberta Museum in Canada and of course, I expected the usual stuff, or the usual stuffed animals I should say. However, I must say two exhibitions left we pleasantly suprised and I learned A LOT! First up they have an excellent area dedicated to the native people’s of …
Ellis Island, the inspection station through which millions of immigrants passed, didn’t open until six years after the statue of liberty was unveiled in 1886! So what was its original meaning and purpose? The Washington Post says that “Lady Liberty was inspired by the end of the Civil War and emancipation. The connection to immigration …
The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants! Read More »
Let’s face it, there is a bit of a fad going on in media, in an attempt to ride with the times Black folk are finally gaining accolades publically usually reserved for middle-class White people. Don’t get me wrong, this is awesome and in the bigger sense, it is adding to the greater good… BUT …
This is EXCELLENT! Yesterday if you’d opened Google you would have seen a Black family in front of a portrait on the home search page. This was the amazing work of 18-year-old Arantza Peña Popo from Lithonia, Ga. This year’s theme for the Doodle for Google comp was “When I grow up, I hope…” Of …
This is a pretty interesting development. It is hard to know if this is a genuine move or just PR but a Scottish University is going to pay £20 million (about $24.4 million USD) in slavery reparations to try and make up for the money it received as a direct result of slavery. The World …
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