George Washington and the Slave Who Got Away
The Extraordinary Escape of Ona Judge In the spring of 1796, as President George Washington and his wife, Martha, prepared to return from Philadelphia to...
Category : History
The Brown Paper Bag Test
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Have you heard of the brown paper bag test? It was a practice that’s been documented in black fraternities and churches through much of the 20th...
The Blue Vein Society
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A Historical Perspective on the Mulatto Class and Social Hierarchies which admitted only Mulattos to improve their lot while barring entry for dark Africans. The...
Long-awaited justice in cop’s killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson, whose death helped spark Alabama civil rights marches
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After decades of waiting, justice has finally been served in the case of the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson. Jackson’s death, which occurred in 1965,...
Did you know the first governor of California ordered Blacks out of Oregon in 1844?
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Although southerners in the U.S. catch a lot of flak for their deeds regarding chattel slavery, the history shows the north have dirt on their...
Senator Benjamin R.“Pitchfork Ben” Tillman Justifies Violence Against Southern Blacks
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In this March 23, 1900, speech before the U.S. Senate, Senator Benjamin R. “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman of South Carolina defended the actions of his white...
The lynching and torture of blacks in the Jim Crow South weren’t just acts of racism. They were religious rituals.
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The cliché is that Americans have a short memory, but since Saturday, a number of us have been arguing over medieval religious wars and whether they have...
Black Oppression & The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
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The Mississippi River Flood of 1927, often referred to as the Great Flood of 1927, stands as one of the most devastating natural disasters in...
How 2,000 Blacks were used as barriers at gunpoint during The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
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The Impact of Natural Disasters on African-American Communities Natural disasters have historically had a disproportionate impact on African-American communities in the United States, revealing systemic...
Black Ice: African origins of the sport of Hockey
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Rewriting American History American history has always promoted the myth of the original thirteen colonies. In truth, at the time of the American Revolution, there...