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Yah’Kwame Kariuki Nii Ayi Kushi Amaa Blackwell, who is professionally recognized as Yahu Blackwell, has been crowned by HRM Nortse Nii Nortey Owuo IV (Paramount Stool) as “Osu Noryaa Mantse” — the Development King At Large — for the Osu Monarchy. The newly crowned monarch and chieftain will oversee all the developmental affairs of the…
Kitty Perkins is a fashion designer from Spartanburg, South Carolina, who created the first...
In the 1970s and 1980s, Gary Tyler became the focus of a widespread support campaign after...
Authorities of the school for deaf and hard of hearing students, Gallaudet University, have...
Martin Luther King, Kwame Nkrumah, Harriet Tubman, and Malcolm X, among other Black extraordinary leaders and individuals, have positively altered the course of Black history; paving the way for resilient...
When the Ladies Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester, New York, invited abolitionist Frederick Douglass to give his famous July 4 speech in 1852, Douglass chose to speak on July 5 instead. Historians say...
“In a normal world, this man could have been anything. He could have been president of the United States. He could have been a Fortune 500 CEO, but he got kicked out of the YMCA for being black,...
The Los Angeles Pobladores, or “townspeople,” were a group of 44 settlers and four soldiers from Mexico who established the famed city on this day in 1781 in what is now California. The...
Nat Turner was a captive who led a bloody rebellion in August 1831, which prompted an even more violent response from angry Whites in the South. The infamous revolt leader was born on Oct 2, 1800...
Over the past decades, many black films have stood out as a means to highlight and honor the accomplishments of black people world-wide. Some of these masterpieces capture the long history of racism and...
When it comes to food, clothing, and even sometimes languages, there are certain similarities among Africans that cannot be ruled out. However, some African cultures are innate and unique to borders and...
She was a woman of many firsts. A law school dean and a civil rights leader, Patricia Roberts Harris was the first Black woman to become a U.S. cabinet secretary in 1977 and the first to be named U.S....
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