5 Daring Slave Escapes
1. Henry “Box” Brown After his wife and children were sold and shipped away to another state in 1848, Virginia-born Henry Brown resolved to escape...
Category : History
10 Barbaric And Heartbreaking Ways Enslaved Black People Were Punished by Their Slave Masters
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The institution of slavery in America was marked by unimaginable cruelty, with enslavers using brutal punishments to enforce control, instill fear, and maintain submission among...
Frank Mann
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Frank Calvin Mann was an engineer and designer who worked with entrepreneur and industrialist Howard R. Hughes on projects that included the Spruce Goose, at...
California is named after a black queen
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History is interesting. The deeper one digs, the more likely one can find many possibly true stories and explanations for the same incident. Take the...
Marcus Garvey’s final speech before he was jailed for mail fraud in 1925
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Marcus Garvey was Jamaica’s first national hero who advocated for Black nationalism in Jamaica and particularly the United States. Born on August 17, 1887, Garvey traveled...
The cruel ‘Lash Law’ of the 1800s that authorized the whipping of Blacks twice a year
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Peter Burnett and Racial Policies in 19th-Century America By 1865, slavery was outlawed in the United States, granting former slaves the right to own property...
Wallace Henry Thurman
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A Pioneering Voice of the Harlem Renaissance and the man who penned the expression “THE BLACKER THE BERRY” Wallace Henry Thurman, a prominent figure in...
The Gullah People
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The Gullah are African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina and Georgia, which includes both the coastal plain and the Beaufort...
Juneteenth and the Struggle Against Chattel Slavery
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On June 19, 1865, in Galveston, the United States military governor of Texas, General Gordon Granger, issued General Order No.3, which declared that per the Emancipation...
United Sons of Ham of America
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A Pillar of African American Fraternal Life During Reconstruction During the turbulent era of Reconstruction following the American Civil War, African American communities in the...