“Stagecoach” Mary Fields (c. 1832-1914) was born a slave in Tennessee and following the Civil War, she moved to the pioneer community of Cascade, Montana. In 1895, when she was around 60 years old, Fields became the second woman and first African Ame ...
Posted Saturday, March 24th 2018 at 3:34PM
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Millie and Christine McCoy (1851-1912) were conjoined twins born into slavery. They and their mother were sold to a showman, Joseph Smith. Smith and his wife educated the girls; they eventually could speak five languages, dance, play music, and sing. ...
Posted Saturday, March 24th 2018 at 3:29PM
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Gangster Music and Gangsta Rap are said to have their birth in the 1980s. The truth is..... none of that is true.
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Posted Saturday, March 24th 2018 at 11:55AM
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Samuel "Sam" Sharpe
The leader of a Maafa (slavery) rebellion in Jamaica in 1831 which became known as the Christmas Rebellion. The uprising lasted 10 days and spread throughout the entire island, mobilizing as many as 60,000 of Jamaica's 300,000 ...
Posted Friday, March 23rd 2018 at 9:10AM
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Katherine Johnson
The NASA Mathematician Who Advanced Human Rights with a Slide Rule and Pencil NASA chief Charles Bolden recalls the historic trajectory of the “human computer” who played a key role in the Apollo 11 moon landing, and as a female ...
Posted Friday, March 23rd 2018 at 9:00AM
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Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, known as Sissieretta Jones, (b.1868 – d.1933) was an American soprano. She sometimes was called "The Black Patti" in reference to Italian opera singer Adelina Patti. Jones' repertoire included grand opera, light oper ...
Posted Friday, March 23rd 2018 at 8:55AM
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A team of scholars are coming in to correct the lies being told about our black history
2018 2019 paradigm shift...real scholarship on the rise ! ...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd 2018 at 1:58PM
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The Magnificent Walls of Benin
"The Walls of Benin were a combination of ramparts and moats, called Iya in the local language[which?], used as a defense of the defunct Kingdom of Benin, which is present-day Benin City, the capital of present-day Edo, Nigeria. It was considered the largest man-mad ...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd 2018 at 10:37AM
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Emmett W. Chappelle
Is a scientist who made valuable contributions in the fields of medicine, philanthropy, food science, and Astrochemistry.
From 1950 to 1955 he served as an instructor of biochemistry at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, ...
Posted Wednesday, March 21st 2018 at 5:32PM
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He was the first Black Japanese Samurai in history and he was essentially one of the ‘Right Hand Men’ of the war lord of 16th century Japan: Oda Nobunaga.
Yasuke (彌介) is what they called him, we are not too sure of his actual name bu ...
Posted Wednesday, March 21st 2018 at 5:29PM
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James Samuel Watson (1882–1952) was one of the first two Black Americans elected as a judge in New York City.
James S. Watson was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica on May 29, 1882. His father, James Michael Watson, was a Sergeant in the Jamaica Con ...
Posted Wednesday, March 21st 2018 at 5:25PM
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Black horsemen played a vital role in shaping early American turf history, and the Kentucky Derby is no exception. The history of the Kentucky Derby and African-American horsemen are intertwined. The Derby and Churchill Downs owe a great deal to thes ...
Posted Wednesday, March 21st 2018 at 8:59AM
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