Known as the Primer Libertador de America or “first liberator of the Americas,” Gaspar Yanga led one of colonial Mexico’s first successful slave uprisings and would go on to establish one of the Americas earliest free black settlements.
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Masks like this are worn by men in elaborate masquerade performances known as "Gelede." This ritual takes place each year between March and May, at the beginning of a new agricultural season. The purpose of the performance is to pay tribute to the s ...
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Nichelle Nichols (born Grace Dell Nichols; December 28, 1932) is an American actress, singer and voice artist. She sang with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton before turning to acting. Her most famous role is that of communications officer Lieutenant ...
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The Kaabu Empire
Was a Mandinka kingdom of Senegambia centered within modern northeastern Guinea-Bissau but extending into Casamance in Senegal. It rose to prominence in the region thanks to its origins as a former province of the Mali Empire. Af ...
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Cathy Williams (September 1844 - 1892) was an American soldier who enlisted in United States Army under the pseudonym William Cathay. She is the first African-American woman to enlist, and the only documented to serve in the United States Army posing ...
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Bro. Dark presents the Cakewalk.
"The cakewalk or cake walk was a dance developed from the "prize walks" held in the late 19th century, generally at get-togethers on black slave plantations after emancipation in the Southern United States."
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Posted Sunday, May 6th 2018 at 6:31PM
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Windows to West Africa is a presentation that focuses on the geographical and historical time period between 1000 AD until present. ...
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TRUTHSTORIAN connects with Black Ice TV, our brothers across the pond in England, for a discussion on the history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and African Lodge more commonly known as Prince Hall Freemasonry and their foundation in America.
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Posted Friday, May 4th 2018 at 9:58AM
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She made a choice:
Margaret Garner (called "Peggy") was an enslaved African-American woman in pre-Civil War America who was notorious – or celebrated – for killing her own daughter rather than allowing the child to be returned to slavery. She ...
Posted Thursday, May 3rd 2018 at 2:13PM
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NBK LIVE - Bro. Seneb: Francisco MEnendez
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Posted Thursday, May 3rd 2018 at 10:22AM
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Liberian peace activist, author, and 2011 Nobel Prize winner was born on February 1, 1972. She grew up in Bong County in central Liberia. In 1990, when Leymah was 17, she left for the capital, Monrovia, just before the nearly decade old civil war rea ...
Posted Tuesday, May 1st 2018 at 12:10PM
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Born on the 17th of February 1944 in Georgetown, Guyana, Bernie Grant was elected to the British House of Commons in 1987 to serve as one of the country’s first black Members of Parliament (MPs). With a head teacher for a father and a teacher for a ...
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