King Leopold II And The Congo Genocide
Leopold II (French: Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor, Dutch: Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor; 9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and…
Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey
Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey (31 December 1895[1] – 25 July 1973) was a Jamaican-born journalist and activist. She was the second wife of Marcus Garvey. She was one of the pioneering female Black…
Annie Lee Cooper
Annie Lee Wilkerson Cooper (June 2, 1910 – November 24, 2010) was an African-American civil rights activist in the 1965 Selma Voting Rights Movement who is best known for punching Dallas County, Alabama Sheriff Jim Clark. In January…
U.s. Government Sprayed Deadly Chemicals on Poor Blacks In St.Louis
The Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, known together as Pruitt–Igoe (/ˈpruɪt ˈaɪɡoʊ/), were joint urban housing projects first occupied in 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The complex consisted of 33 eleven-story high rises, designed in…
George Washington Johnson
George Washington Johnson (c. October 1846 – January 23, 1914) was an American singer and pioneer sound recording artist. Johnson was the first African American recording star of the phonograph.[1][2] His most popular songs were “The Whistling Coon”…
Black Origins Of Ice Hockey
The Coloured Hockey League of the Maritimes (CHL) was an all-black ice hockey league founded in Nova Scotia in 1895, which featured teams from across Canada‘s Maritime Provinces. The league operated for several decades lasting until 1930.
Orania: White’s Only Town In South Africa
Orania (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ʊəˈrɑːnia]) is an Afrikaner separatist town founded by Afrikaners in South Africa. It is located along the Orange River in the Karoo region of the Northern Cape province.[3] The town is split in two halves by the R369 road, and is 871…
James Derham
James Derham[1] (May 2, 1762[2]—1802?), also known as James Durham,[3] was the first African American to formally practice medicine in the United States,[4] though he never received an M.D. degree. James Derham was born into slavery in Philadelphia in…
Pas-ta’ai Festival
Negrito skull confirms Taiwan indigenous legends of ‘little Black people’ 6,000-year-old skull found in Taitung cave was that of a woman who was 139 cm tall Cranial profile of the…
University Of Al-Qarawiyyin
The University of al-Qarawiyyin (Arabic: جامعة القرويين; Berber languages: ⵜⴰⵙⴷⴰⵡⵉⵜ ⵏ ⵍⵇⴰⵕⴰⵡⵉⵢⵉⵏ; French: Université Al Quaraouiyine), also written Al-Karaouine or Al Quaraouiyine, is a university located in Fez, Morocco. It was founded as a mosque by Fatima al-Fihri in 857–859 and subsequently became one of the…