Rebecca Protten
Rebecca Freundlich Protten, also Shelly (1718–1780) was a Caribbean Moravian evangelist and pioneer missionary who propagated the Gospel to slaves on the island of Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands. A…
Paul Bogle
Paul Bogle (1822– 24 October 1865)was a Jamaican Baptist deacon and activist. He is a National Hero of Jamaica. He was a leader of the 1865 Morant Bay protesters, who…
Thomas L. Jennings
Thomas L. Jennings (January 1, 1791 – February 13, 1856) was an African-American inventor, tradesman, entrepreneur, and abolitionist in New York City, New York. He has the distinction of being…
F.B.I. Crime Statistics National Incident-Based Reporting System
Washington, D.C. FBI National Press Office (202) 324-3691 December 21, 2021 Article from this source: https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/press-releases/fbi-releases-2020-incident-based-data FBI Releases 2020 Incident-Based (NIBRS) Data Today, the FBI released detailed data on nearly…
Lucy Terry Prince
Lucy Terry Prince, often credited as simply Lucy Terry (1733–1821), was an American settler and poet. Kidnapped in Africa and enslaved, she was taken to Rhode Island, America. Her future…
Juan (Jan) Rodriguez
(Image is from Daily Mail Uk) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325467/Juan-Rodriguez-New-Yorks-immigrant-honoured-mile-stretch-Broadway.html Juan Rodriguez was one of the first documented non-indigenous inhabitants to live on Manhattan Island.As such, he is considered the first non-native resident…
William Augustus Greenlee
William Augustus Greenlee (December 26, 1893 – July 7, 1952) was a highly successful businessman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was born and raised in Marion, North Carolina. After migrating to…
The Character Uncle Tom In The Novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin Was NOT An ‘Uncle Tom”
Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The character was seen by many readers as a ground-breaking humanistic portrayal of a slave,…
Nubian Wigs
In Ancient Egyptian society, hair was an embodiment of identity. It could carry religious and erotic significance and portray information about gender, age, and social status.
Mark E. Dean
Mark E. Dean (born March 2, 1957) is an American inventor and computer engineer. He developed the ISA bus, and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer…