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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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  They spat on her ice cream at 7, and her life changed forever – the story of an unsung civil rights hero

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  The story behind the giant bronze Amazon statue in Benin

  Stephen Nartey
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  That dangerous trip by Frederick Douglass to the White House which changed U.S. history

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  The intriguing story of John Anthony, a free sailor of African heritage who came to 17th-century England on a pirate’s boat

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  Without MLK, Nichelle Nichols may not have made history on the 1960s sci-fi series Star Trek

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  How a former slave bought the plantation he was enslaved on in the 1860s

  Mildred Europa Taylor

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  August 1 is Emancipation Day. Here are four facts about Emancipation in the Caribbean you probably never knew

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  Celebrate Flora Batson, the ‘Queen of Song’ of the 19th century who moved millions to tears with her voice

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  This is the man behind the historic Green Book that guided African-American travelers through a segregated nation

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  Remembering the Clinton 12, first African-American teens to desegregate a public school in the South

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  The resilience of Henrietta Wood, a former slave who sued her captor after 25 years and won

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  Abu Bekr es Siddik: from a prominent family in Timbuktu to slavery, and then freed after 27 yrs in 1834

  Mildred Europa Taylor

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