William Alexander Leidesdorff
The African Founding Father of San Francisco San Francisco, renowned for its stunning bays and the infamous Alcatraz Island, owes much of its early development...
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Banned in Jamaica and assassinated in his home country of Guyana, here’s why Walter Rodney was so fearsome
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An intellectual and scholar regarded as one of the Caribbean’s most brilliant minds, Walter Anthony Rodney, born to Edward and Pauline Rodney in Georgetown, Guyana...
Benjamin Sterling Turner
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Benjamin Sterling Turner was born on March 17, 1825, in Weldon, North Carolina, as a slave. He had no formal education as a child, but...
Hubert Henry Harrison: The Most Important Black Radical You’ve Never Heard of
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Hubert Henry Harrison is the most important black radical you’ve ever heard of. While other leading figures in the black freedom movement, from W. E. B....
Meet the uncelebrated black architect who designed Duke University and parts of Harvard
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One of the most sidelined American architects is African American architect Julian Francis Abele who is noted to have designed several important buildings including one...
1842 AFRICAN SLAVE REVOLT AGAINST THE CHEROKEE NATION
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The Cherokee Indians were one of the largest tribes that held Africans as chattel slaves out of five other civilized tribes. By the early 1860s, the...
Hundreds of Black men, women and children burned alive, shot, lynched by white mobs during Red Summer ignored century later
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America in the summer of 1919 ran red with blood from racial violence, and yet today, 100 years later, not many people know it even...
Ellsworth Raymond “Bumpy” Johnson
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Ellsworth Raymond “Bumpy” Johnson was born on October 31, 1905, in Charleston, South Carolina, to Margaret Moultrie and William Johnson, earning his lifelong nickname from...
Frank Lucas
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As one of the country’s most notorious gangsters and drug kingpins, Frank Lucas led a very public life, even having his story depicted in the film...
THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY TEN-POINT PROGRAM
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Written October 15, 1966 1. We Want Freedom. We Want Power to Determine the Destiny of Our Black Community. We believe that Black people will...