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On this day in 1956, Montgomery was forced to integrate its buses for black people
On this day in 1956 – June 5th, 1956, a three – judge panel for Alabama’s Middle District Court ruled 2-1 that the city’s bus segregation laws were in violation of the 14th...
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How cornrows were used as an escape map from slavery across South America
Cornrows have become a crowd favorite for women of every culture in the last ten years. Whereas it used to be worn by children, especially young African and African American girls, the style has become...
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The fascinating story of Anthony Johnson, the black man who was one of the first people to own a slave in the U.S.
The history of slavery in the Americas has always been marred by its deep racial past. So much so that stories like those of Anthony Johnson, a black man who was one of the first people to legally own...
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#BlackExcellence: Graduation stories hashtag breaks traditional stereotypes about Black people
For a long time, Black people, especially those in America, have complained about the media’s portrayal of them as as violent, wild, over sexual and uneducated. But with social media giving everyone...
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[WeTour] Morocco’s World Sacred Music festival in Fes spotlights ancestral knowledge
Visitors say you haven’t been to Morocco unless you have visited the city of Fes, also spelled Fez. The town in northern Morocco, fondly nicknamed, the “Mecca of the West” and the...
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Somali senator fights against child marriages in the U.S.
Ilhan Omar, the public organizer and social activist, who made history in 2016 when she became the first Somali-American Muslim legislator in the United States is on a fight to end child marriages in her...
