Bobby Hutton
Robert James Hutton, widely known as “Lil’ Bobby” or “Little Bobby Hutton,” was born on April 21, 1950, in Jefferson County, Arkansas, near Pine Bluff....
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Felix Wayne Mitchell (“Felix the Cat”)
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Felix Wayne Mitchell, better known as Felix the Cat, gained notoriety as a prominent drug kingpin in Oakland, California. Operating at the helm of the...
Before Emmett Till, 23-year-old George Armwood was dragged from jail, hanged and burnt in 1933
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Before the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955, the harrowing story of George Armwood in 1933 had sent shivers down the spines of the people...
The sad story of Pío Pico, California’s African Jesus who became powerful and influential through land ownership but died poor
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As with many things, the African presence in California and Los Angeles, in particular, had been shielded by historians till the City’s Bicentennial celebration in...
THE STORIES OF 5 BLACK WOMEN LYNCHED IN AMERICA
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Jennie Steers On July 25, 1903, a mob lynched Jennie Steers on the Beard Plantation in Louisiana for supposedly giving a white teenager, 16-year-old Elizabeth Dolan,...
How The FBI Assassinated Fred Hampton For Defending The Black Community
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The fight and agitation for equal rights for Black people in America have been a long one. It has claimed the lives of many Black...
Otto von Bismarck
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Otto von Bismarck (April 1, 1818–July 30, 1898), a son of the Prussian aristocracy, unified Germany in the 1870s. And he actually dominated European affairs...
America’s largest auction of Enslaved People
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Now, a search for descendants of the Weeping Time. It poured rain relentlessly on those two days in early March 1859 at the Ten Broeck...
Tulsa searches for mass graves from 1921 Tulsa race massacre
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The search for evidence that victims of the 1921 race massacre, one of the country’s worst episodes of racial violence, were buried in mass graves...
Household Slaves: Tortured & Starved to death by serial killer Delphine Lalaurie
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The LaLaurie Family and the Horrors of Royal Street Mansion In the early 19th century, the LaLaurie family, led by Delphine LaLaurie and her husband,...