Ishango And Lebombo Bones
The Ishango bone, discovered at the “Fisherman Settlement” of Ishango in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is a bone tool and possible mathematical device that dates to the Upper Paleolithic…
Opelousas Massacre
The Opelousas massacre, which began on September 28, 1868, was one of the bloodiest massacres of the Reconstruction era in the United States. In the aftermath of the ratification of…
Black Mayans Painted On Mural In Guatemalan Cave
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/120510-maya-2012-doomsday-calendar-end-of-world-science SKIP TO CONTENT LOGIN SUBSCRIBE PHOTOGRAPH BY TYRONE TURNER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Unprecedented Maya Mural Found, Contradicts 2012 “Doomsday” Myth Under the Guatemalan jungle, 1,200-year-old paintings like no others.…
Maggie L. Walker
Maggie Lena (née Draper Mitchell) Walker (July 15, 1864 – December 15, 1934) was a businesswoman and teacher. In 1903, Walker became both the first African American woman to charter…
Walter Lincoln Hawkins
Walter Lincoln Hawkins (March 21, 1911 – August 20, 1992) was an American chemist and engineer widely regarded as a pioneer of polymer chemistry. For thirty-four years he worked at…
Gladys Mae West
Gladys Mae West (née Brown; born October 27, 1930) is an American mathematician known for her contributions to the mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, and her work…
Cheddar Man
Cheddar Man is a human male fossil found in Gough’s Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England. The skeletal remains date to around the mid-to-late 9th millennium BC, corresponding to the…
Omar ibn Said
Omar ibn Said (1770–1864) was a Fula Islamic scholar from Futa Toro in West Africa (present-day Senegal), who was enslaved and transported to the United States in 1807. There, while…
Black History Month
Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American History Month. It has received official recognition from governments in the…
Augustus Washington
Augustus Washington (c. 1820 – June 7, 1875) was an American photographer and daguerreotypist. He was born in New Jersey as a free person of color and migrated to Liberia in…