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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

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  The story of Miss LaLa, a 19th-century circus star who could lift three men simultaneously

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  The illegitimate son who became the 1st person of African descent to be elected to Barbados parliament

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  What was Thanksgiving Day like for enslaved people in America?

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  This slave planned to take over Virginia’s capital and establish a kingdom but was betrayed by his own and hanged

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  That time when three Black Marines were charged with mutiny at sea

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  The tragic, little-known story of Linnentown, a thriving Black Athens neighborhood that was razed down

  Mildred Europa Taylor

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  How boxer Cuthbert Taylor was barred from British title fights due to his Caribbean heritage

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  How soul singer Gladys Knight – not Diana Ross – discovered Michael Jackson

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  After becoming Britain’s 1st Black train driver, he broke his legs in crash caused by signalman’s mistake

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  Louis Armstrong: What you didn’t know about the late trumpeter’s only and secret child

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  The untold heroics of the first Black war reporter on the frontlines

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  The story of Khentkaus I, the mysterious queen who ruled Egypt independently

  Mildred Europa Taylor

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