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Marion Stokes – The Woman Who Recorded 35 Years of Television
The facts, then. In November 1979, during the Iranian hostage crisis, an African-American woman in Philadelphia named Marion Stokes did something that would consume...
Lorraine Hansberry – First, Young, Gifted, and Black
Lorraine Hansberry died at 34. She packed more into those 34 years than most people pack into 80, and then she died at the...
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Zulu Dawn: Isandlwana The Battle That Broke the British
The British Empire had a rule. Native armies did not beat trained European soldiers. Everyone believed this. The Zulus did not read the rule.On...
The Children They Tried to Erase: The Nazi Sterilisation of Afro-German...
In 1937, Nazi Germany launched a secret sterilisation programme targeting mixed-race children in the Rhineland. These were the children of German women and Black...
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Panama’s Month of African Heritage: The Fiesta de la Etnia Negra
In the year 2000, the Panamanian government passed Law 9, declaring May 30 as the DÃa de la Etnia Negra Nacional — a civic...
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Viv Anderson – First England Team then Two European Cups, One...
Viv Anderson was 22 when he became the first Black footballer to play for England. It was 29 November 1978. The opponent was Czechoslovakia....
The Man Who Made Jack Daniel’s: Nearest Green’s 150 Year Secret
Nathan "Nearest" Green was born into slavery in Maryland around 1820. No one recorded his exact birth date. No one wrote down his parents'...










































