by Candace | Dec 7, 2017 | DYK
On December 4, 1969 21 year-old, Black Panther Party Leader, Fred Hampton was assassinated by the FBI and Chicago police. William O’Neal was hired to infiltrate the Black Panther Party because the FBI was desperate to dismantle the organization. After being probed to...
by James Washington | Dec 6, 2017 | Culture, Did You Know, DYK, History
The holiday of Juneteenth falls on June 19th and is observed as the day that slavery officially ended for Texas. While this holiday has often remained low-key, the 150th anniversary of the Civil War has started to bring Juneteenth into a bigger focus. While Abraham...
by James Washington | Dec 6, 2017 | Culture, Did You Know, DYK, History
Reginald F. Lewis was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 7, 1942. In the 1980s, he was known as the most prominent African American businessman in America. He was a lawyer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, Chairman, and CEO.[1] His mother was a mail carrier and...
by Candace | Dec 5, 2017 | DYK
With the disappointing amount of powerful men being accused of rape sexual assault another rape has resurfaced. A rape which was investigated by Rosa Parks before she became infamous for refusing to give up her seat to white man on the bus. In 1944, Rosa Parks was...
by James Washington | Dec 4, 2017 | Culture, Did You Know, DYK, History
The first African American television station owned and operated solely by African Americans was WGPR-TV. WGPR-TV, based in Detroit, Michigan, was founded by William Venoid Banks, who was a Detroit attorney, leading member of the International Free and Accepted...
by Forest Parks | Jul 21, 2017 | Did You Know, DYK
If you really want to show someone how racist the USA really is to the core you gotta start digging everywhere, you don’t have to dig deep to realize that racist roots are under seemingly innocent things everywhere you look, even the use of the word marijuana!...
by Forest Parks | Jun 27, 2017 | Did You Know, DYK, History
Have you ever heard of Freedman’s Village, a town of freed so-called slaves on the seized estate of Robert E. Lee. Well, it was once a thriving bastion of hope, of around 100 residents, in small wooden homes. Timeline.com wrote: Freedman’s Village, which started...
by Forest Parks | May 17, 2017 | Did You Know, DYK, History
Everyone knows about the Pyramids of Giza, the great pyramid, unarguably one of the ancient wonders of the world and when you see it, you know just why! It’s epic on every scale and the fact that humans did that is awe inspiring. Egypt isn’t just the great...
by Forest Parks | Apr 10, 2017 | Did You Know, DYK, History
Yes, black women, at one point in American history were forced to cover their hair, subduing their traditional African heritage and their natural hair. It became a sign of shame before it became a norm and later a point of resistance for some. The Visibility project...
by Forest Parks | Mar 29, 2017 | Did You Know, DYK
A lot of older songs, stories and rhymes have a dark past and come from an era where openly teaching kids to be racist was not frowned upon. You could argue that not much has changed but it’s shocking to learn the original words to some of these rhymes. Atlanta...
