by gamma | Jul 31, 2019 | News
Four golds, sex silvers! She swept the 50 and 100-metr freestyle on Sunday night. So…. any notion that Black folks can’t swim needs to be thrown far far away. Simone Manuel is the GOAT, or at least one of them! This young lady is amazing. During the...
by gamma | Jul 31, 2019 | Black Artists, Culture
When you think of techno music you probably think of crowds of young mostly-white partygoers, carefree and intoxicated on feelings of love due to various of substances as they dance around to some obscure European DJ in a converted warehouse. buy doxycycline online...
by Verlie S | Jul 29, 2019 | History
In 1886, The Statue of Liberty was a symbol of democratic government and Enlightenment standards as a celebration of the Union’s triumph in the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery. Eduardo de Laboulaye, the French political mastermind, U.S....
by Verlie S | Jul 26, 2019 | History
Leonard Bailey was an African American innovator and businessman in Washington, DC, during the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born in 1825 with a physical inability to an impoverished free black family. However, through his business adventures and ambitious...
by Verlie S | Jul 25, 2019 | History
Ellen Eglin was an African American woman who invented the mechanical clothes wringer. Back then, people did not have a lot of options to wash clothes. The device had two rollers constructed in a frame and these were connected to a crank. These rollers had two wooden...
by gamma | Jul 25, 2019 | Blog, Business
This is a guest post from Author Wesley N. Chase regarding his new book “As the Chasm Grows… The Black HipHop and Black-American Cultural Contrast” available on Amazon here. Author: Wesley N. Chase (author name) Location: Virginia Affiliation: Alpha...
by Verlie S | Jul 24, 2019 | History
Charles Baker was an African American inventor born in Savannah, Missouri on August 3, 1859. His parents were Abraham Baker and Betsy Mackay Baker. Sadly, his mother died before Baker’s first birthday, so he was brought up by his father and the wife of the plantation...
by gamma | Jul 24, 2019 | History
Hair plays a significant role in America’s Black community and beyond just fashion and the huge industry that it is, hair is an important cultural and symbolic subject surrounded by fascinating History. Trends come and go and the community is always on the...
by Verlie S | Jul 23, 2019 | History
Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner, a black inventor, was born in Monroe, North Carolina in 1912. She started inventing while still in her childhood, and she holds more patents than any other African American woman in history. Schooling Mary Kenner went to Dunbar High...
by Forest Parks | Jul 23, 2019 | Celebrities, News, Positivity
Tennessee Titans linebacker Derrick Morgan announced his retirement at 15th July, at 30 it seems like a sensible choice and he said, to Forbes, of the decision “I’m at a time where, physically and mentally, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to continue,” But that does...