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This is how Accra’s flour queen Rebecca Aryeetey financed a party to gain Ghana’s freedom
Although brilliant and a master strategist, Ghana’s first prime minister and president Kwame Nkrumah emerging from an impoverished background lacked funds to execute campaigns in his battles with...
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How world’s best-selling band ‘Earth, Wind & Fire’ sold music as medicine
The Earth, Wind & Fire band was founded by Maurice White who had honed his skills as a session drummer for Chess Records. In 1967, he replaced Redd Holt in the popular jazz group the Ramsey Lewis Trio,...
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Five-month-old baby in Dominican Rep. dies after drinking turtle blood to prevent Covid-19
A family of Haitian origin based in the Dominican Republic has paid dearly by trusting a traditional healer to protect them from Covid-19 contamination. According to Dahiana Vólquez, Director of...
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How women’s favourite Teddy Pendergrass became wheelchair-bound on the verge of becoming a superstar
Although Theodore DeReese Pendergrass, better known as Teddy Pendergrass, was born in South Carolina to Jesse and Ida Geraldine Pendergrass, it will be in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he was raised...
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Ella Little-Collins, Malcolm X’s sister who paid for his Hajj pilgrimage and funeral expenses
Even the strongest of people need a backbone. Someone they can defer to for counsel, warmth, protection and love. For Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz), he found that in his older half-sister Ella Little-Collins,...
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Bobby Robinson, WWII veteran who popularized doo-wop, R&B, and rap music from Harlem
Bobby Robinson began life on a South Carolina farm, however, by 20, it was clear to him he had to move to make his fortune and so to New York he went. By 1942, he had been drafted into the army serving...
