by Freddie Ra | Apr 30, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
Benjamin Banneker was born in 1731 on a farm along the Patapsco River, about 10 miles from Baltimore, to a free mulatto mother and an African father who had purchased his way out of slavery. He spent most of his young life on the farm, going off to a Quaker school in...
by Freddie Ra | Apr 27, 2016 | Africa, Blog, Did You Know, Profiles in Black History
Mali was the second of the “Great Three” ancient West African kingdoms whose history can be traced back to Paleolithic times through rock paintings, carvings and other finds – all of this goes back before its known record, 600 A.D. – 1,400 A.D....
by Furious | Dec 29, 2015 | History, Modern History
Two medical school colleagues, one an immigrant from India, the other a life-long Mississippian, joined forces to resolve a historical oversight that until this month had never officially been corrected. The oversight was no small one either. Until February 7, 2013,...
by Reneegede | Jul 20, 2015 | Opinion
Facebook is a most masterful tool for any attempt to take the political pulse of the Black community at-large, to distract, or even to gauge the typical day-to-day goings-on of what some refer to as the “African-American” people [Raven Symone be damned]....
by Reneegede | Oct 13, 2014 | Opinion
INSIGHT Dick Gregory stated that people assumed Carver was gay because of the sound quality of a his voice – it was very high-pitched, no bass, no baritone, nothing. What they didn’t know is that Carver was castrated by his white benefactors to keep him...
by Samayoch | Oct 10, 2014 | History
We, Afrikans in the Ma’afa, are living monuments. Yet we don’t realize it. Let’s argue that we are now in a time where there is a need for us to re-establish our identity and reconnect with our ancestors and what they achieved. Not only reading up on...
by Reneegede | Apr 11, 2014 | Opinion
“Walking with Cavemen,” a BBC-originated Netflix documentary on the story of the origins of white people, is very interesting. In their own dramatic story-telling manner, they talk about the origins of themselves, their European ancestors, that is, from...
by Furious | Feb 2, 2013 | History
The U.S. Senate confirms Eric Holder as U.S. Attorney General. He is the first African-American in the nation to hold the post. Also, on this day in 1995, Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. becomes the first African-American to walk in space while involved in the deployment and...
