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September 9, 2019 at 1:00 pm

The sad end of Tom Molineaux, the 1700s bare-knuckles slave fighter who was America’s first boxing star

• September 12, 2019 at 01:00pm Abducted at 12 and sold into slavery in U.S., this brave Ghanaian woman fought for compensation in court and won by Theodora Aidoo
• September 12, 2019 at 09:00am Celebrating Steve Bantu Biko’s legacy with 10 of his greatest quotes by Francis Akhalbey
• September 11, 2019 at 02:00pm From slave to Georgetown financier, how Guinea’s Yarrow Mamout gained his freedom and became rich in the 1800s by Ama Nunoo
• September 11, 2019 at 09:30am From slave in Michigan to first black female landowner in the 1820s, the story of Elizabeth Forth by Theodora Aidoo
• September 10, 2019 at 02:30pm Arthur Ashe, the 1960s black tennis star whose life was cut short by blood transfusion that led to AIDS by Michael Eli Dokosi
• September 10, 2019 at 01:00pm From slave to slave owner, how Nathaniel Wells rose to become Britain’s first black high sheriff in 1818 by Etsey Atisu

• September 10, 2019 at 09:02am Mary Ellen Pleasant, the 19th-century millionaire who helped slaves escape to freedom through a secret network by Theodora Aidoo
• September 09, 2019 at 04:00pm The horrible court case of two black boys falsely accused of rape after being kissed by white girl in 1958 by Ama Nunoo
• September 09, 2019 at 02:00pm 5 little-known black female slave traders who changed the course of history by Theodora Aidoo
• September 09, 2019 at 01:00pm The sad end of Tom Molineaux, the 1700s bare-knuckles slave fighter who was America’s first boxing star by Etsey Atisu
• September 09, 2019 at 08:53am The little-known history of forced sterilisation of black children in Nazi Germany by Ama Nunoo
• September 05, 2019 at 04:00pm Jan Matzeliger, the Surinamese inventor whose invention changed the face of the shoe industry by Etsey Atisu

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