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May 9, 2021 at 7:08 am

The 16th century Hausa warrior-queen Amina was said to take lovers from towns she conquered

Nii Ntreh

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  The enslaved African Muslim behind the first Islamic text written in U.S.

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  The enslaved West African woman who became the ‘pastry queen’ of Colonial Rhode Island

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  The rise and fall of Dearfield, a colony for Blacks built by man named after a great Haitian general

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  Cornelius Frederiks: the badass Namibian freedom fighter who gave German colonizers a tough time

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  After fighting for 58 yrs, Black Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden pardoned by Biden. This is his story

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  MC Hammer: How America’s 1st mainstream rapper went from $70m to bankruptcy

  Abu Mubarik

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  The real history of the Statue of Liberty you need to know

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  The unknown story of Britain’s first Black millionaires and how they made their money

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  How Mexico’s first liberated city came to be after a daring revolt by an African slave

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  How this 19th-century Black dentist went from making history at Harvard to inventing golf tee

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  On Liverpool’s 1st Black resident and how the city’s Black community became the oldest in Europe

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  The sad story of Foone, the Amistad slave revolt member who never made it back home to Sierra Leone

  Mildred Europa Taylor

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