by Chum Sejimon | Jun 14, 2016 | Culture, Did You Know
Yes, you’ve read the title correctly! As shocking as it may seem at first glance, white people, according to the United States Census Bureau, are “those having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. buy clomid...
by Forest Parks | Jun 13, 2016 | Africa, Culture, Did You Know
On Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 11am Buckroe Beach in Hampton, VA the Sankofa Projects celebrated their 5th annual International Day of Remembrance honoring African slaves in the Middle Passage. From a 2015 article Chadra Pittman Walke, founder and executive director of...
by Freddie Ra | May 26, 2016 | Africa, Afro-Latinx, Did You Know, History, Profiles in Black History
The Los Angeles Pobladores, or “townspeople,” were a group of 44 settlers and four soldiers from Mexico who established the famed city on this day in 1781 in what is now California. The settlers came from various Spanish castes, with over half of the group being...
by Forest Parks | May 25, 2016 | Culture, Did You Know
Here is a short list of just some of the things she acheived: The first woman to receive the NAACP Chairman’s Civil Rights Leadership Award.Honored for raising the image of blacks through her work on stage, television and in the movies. buy advair rotahaler...
by Freddie Ra | May 20, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
Born in 1753 in Senegal, West Africa but sold into slavery at eight years old, Phillis Wheatley became the most famous female poet of the eighteenth century. At age thirteen years old and while still in slavery, Phillis Wheatley’s poems were being circulated...
by Freddie Ra | May 19, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
Matthew henson belongs to that hardy race of adventurers which from man’s earliest history paved the way for civilization by adding to the knowledge that was hitherto unattainable. Henson’s feat in reaching the North Pole holds a high place in the saga of...
by Candace | May 16, 2016 | Did You Know
Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry made it big as Stepin Fetchit. The African-American actor was one of the few black faces in the American Television. He portrayed himself as a lazy, humorous guy and was later tagged as the “Laziest guy in the world”....
by Forest Parks | May 4, 2016 | Celebrities, Culture
Chaka Khan is a super cool woman but did you know she was also a black panther! Woahh! How awesome is that? While still at highschool she received her name Chaka during an African naming cermony. She was born Yvette Marie Stevens and became Chaka Adunne Aduffe Yemoja...
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 Anthony Thomas | Apr 11, 2016 | Black 365, History
Every few years a rumor circulates around the web that Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight champion, invented and filed a patent for a wrench that was later dubbed the “monkey wrench” by bitter and racist white people. A quick trip to...
