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Stan’s Men; the soccer team from Soweto that met Zico on the 1975 Brazil tour
With the apartheid (1948 to early 1990s) leaders of South Africa being suspicious of foreign contact with their oppressed Black citizens, the feat by Sir Stanley Matthews in assembling an all-black soccer...
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Why did a U.S. magazine label Nigerian leader Sani Abacha as ‘Thug of the Year’ in 1995?
General Sani Abacha is perhaps Nigeria’s most enigmatic head of state. He reigned from 1993 until his death in 1998. General Abacha was born in Kano state, northern Nigeria on September 20, 1943....
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The ‘1919 Bloody Summer’ race riots, how Will Brown was lynched before 15,000 whites over rape claims
Bathed in white privilege before outbreak of the First World War, many European Americans soon found after the war that times had changed. Enlisted men were returning home. Government spending on arms...
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Did a $1m life policy make mother of 6 facilitate murder of her NBA star ex-husband?
Devoted to his family and childhood friends, the missing and eventual death of former NBA star Lorenzen Vern-Gagne Wright confounded the Memphis Police for years. His death was shocking because Wright...
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With his father and four uncles murdered by whites, Malcolm X prophesized his own violent death
Malcolm X also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz is as formidable as they come. His work as an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist demanding rights for Blacks earned him foes. For...
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Black Battalion, the men who offered to serve Canada in uniform but denied opportunity to fight
While Blacks in America had it and continue to have it tough, the tale is no different in neighboring Canada. When the First World War broke in 1914, black Nova Scotians who were willing and able to serve...
