Chief Rabbi Of Israel Compares Africans To Monkeys
2018 Edit On 18 March 2018, Yosef allegedly likened people of black African descent to monkeys.He was speaking on the topic of the Meshaneh HaBriyot blessing in the Talmud concerning…
Stephen Wiltshire
Stephen Wiltshire MBE, Hon.FSAI, Hon.FSSAA (born 24 April 1974) is a British architectural artist and autistic savant.[1] He is known for his ability to draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once. His work has…
Mary Ellen Pleasant
Mary Ellen Pleasant (August 19, 1814[a] – January 11, 1904[b]) was a 19th-century entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate and abolitionist. She was arguably the first self-made millionaire of African-American heritage, preceding Madam C. J. Walker by decades. …
Battle of Fort Pillow
The Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow massacre, was fought on April 12, 1864, at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. The battle ended with soldiers…
Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was a Jamaican-American singer, actor and activist, who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s. His breakthrough album Calypso (1956)…
Mo’ne Ikea Davis
Mo’ne Ikea Davis (born June 24, 2001)[3] is an American former Little League Baseball pitcher and current Hampton University softball player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was one of two girls who played in the 2014 Little League World Series and was…
Recy Taylor
Recy Taylor (née Corbitt; December 31, 1919 – December 28, 2017)[2]: 297 was an African-American woman from Abbeville in Henry County, Alabama. She was born and raised in a sharecropping family in the Jim Crow era Southern United States. Taylor’s refusal to remain silent about…
Gert Schramm
Gert Schramm (28 November 1928 in Erfurt, Thuringia – 18 April 2016 in Eberswalde) was a survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was the youngest of six black prisoners.[1] He was the son of a…
Mulford Act
The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill that prohibited public carrying of loaded firearms without a permit.[2] Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford, and signed into law by governor of California Ronald Reagan, the bill was crafted with the goal…
Francisco Menéndez (Black Soldier)
Francisco Menéndez (before 1709 – after 1763) was a notable free Black militiaman who served the Spanish Empire in Florida during the 18th-century. He was leader of Fort Mose, the first free Black settlement in North America. Born in The…