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BLACKS IN WORLD WAR 1
Charles Williams once said that in the years to come who will read of the work of the negro Stevedores without feeling that America owes a great deal …
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JOLLOF RICE IN WEST AFRICA
In a world drowning in chaos and division, food is likely the sole universal thing that can bring even the greatest enemies to dine on the …
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FREDERICK MCKINLEY JONES
Close the Frederick child, the electricity bills ain't gonna pay themselves. "We've been over this grandpa, it's called the refrigerator not …
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THE UNKNOWN RATTLERS
Only a handful of brown to black-toned men was as privileged as Lionel Turpin to be rewarded or merely recognized for their service during …
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BLACK MOTHERS' SONS DO MATTER
You know, good old Ella Baker said,"until the killing of black men, black mother's sons becomes as important to the rest of the country …
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THE WALKING DICTIONARY
When she isn’t busy winning Guinness World Records from dribbling and juggling balls, she is instead building on her vocabulary …
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WHEN GRANDMA SAW ZAILA
"I'm yet to hear a story that's not centuries old of a black achiever from you grandma. Is it because black excellence ceased with the previous century …
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NEW PAGES IN BLACK HISTORY
“Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter" was the spark that lit to life one of the amplest movements in the world at the moment, the …
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BOSTON ON A SLAVE'S MERCY
You know, there was a period when like any stock market, the price of slaves shot up. This could only be credited to only one slave, Onesimus the …
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HARLEM RENAISSANCE
There is always a silver lining to each dark cloud hovering over the earth. The cloud in this instance happened to be World War 1, heightening into the …
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THE NEGRO RENAISSANCE
When the Jim Crow laws were proving to be a menace, making African Americans second-class citizens and hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan …
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THE ORIGINALS
Did you know? One out of four cowboys were Black men. They were taught the cowboy way of life by Vaqueros, who were Mexican/Spanish ranchers …
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I WILL MARRY WHEN I WANT
“I will marry when I want,” Grandma said. “ But grandma, you’re already married to grandpa. Isn’t it too late to talk about marriage given …
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THE TALES OF JAMES NGUGI
Ngugi wa Thiong'o baptized James Ngugi was born in Limuru, Kenya on the 5th of January in 1938. He is one of Africa’s most recognized literary …
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WE TOO ARE BRAINIACS
The day I met your grandpa, i was clad in a floral yellow dress. I've always known yellow was made for me as all the young men were craning their …
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BLACK PEOPLE IN TECH
Space now appears like an attainable destination because of one woman whose ambition could not be watered down—either by her race or gender. …
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THE BLACK BUSINESS WOMAN
"I am not ashamed to confess for the gratification is, after all, a selfish one that I love to be of service to those who need a woman's help. …
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NOT ALL POTS AND PANS
“Good Lord, I told you I would do the dishes grandma you don't have to remind me every two seconds. Wow, the black ladies in your days …
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HARNESSING THE WIND
“Where there is a way, there is a will”. “Where there is a necessity, there will be innovation.” This is the story of a Malawian inventor, engineer, …
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REWRITING TENNIS HISTORY
"To see where we come from, out of the worst ghetto, to be here at the finest club in the world, it's just phenomenal. In other words …
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THE BEST THERE EVER WAS
Unless you are an inhabitant of a cave and have never been in contact with modern-day technology, then there is no way that you have not heard …
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CALL ME BLACK MOSES
Malcolm X once said, “Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he …
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WHEN THINGS FALL APART, LOOK UP
In a world where everything seems to be falling apart at times, Chinua Achebe comes to mind. The title of his novel, “Things Fall Apart” which …
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WHEN YOU SEE A BLACK ACTOR
And she used our rent money to buy movie tickets. That's the kind of little girl your mama was. I still remember it like it was yesterday, 3rd …
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FIGHTING PAST THE ODDS
One of the role models for Africans living in the diaspora is Maggie Walker, the first African American to charter a Bank and serve as the …
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THE IRON LADY
I see you and I raise you, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The iron lady, they called her, as she did the impossible in a world and a period where little …
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THE BRONZE TITAN
So, I told you about the Cuban leader, Antonio Maceo Grajales being a superhero, and you thought I was just spinning a tale. I wish I were, but …
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HAIL AFRICAN INNOVATORS
“Do we have to go to Africa for our camping trip? I know we want the full camping experience, but are certain we want it to be in a dark place …
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HEALING HEARTS
Van Richardson, the head of globalization technology, once said, "I would love to see more blacks in technology ". He must have said this with …
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BLACK BRAIN LOUDER THAN SKIN
“Can you believe it? He was too brilliant that his white friend in sixth grade kept asking if he was really black. For they expected genius to on …
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NIGGER HAMILTON
“Okay rooting for blacks is one thing, celebrating a black thief is another, more so one who wasn't even playing Robin hood. We can't say …
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THE BLACK MAESTRO
The day was the 17th of September, 1875. Bets were placed, and all eyes were watching and waiting with bated breath at Crab Orchard Park in …
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THE BLACK KENTUCKY DERBY JOCKEYS
“Those black ashy short legs and big teeth of yours cannot ride a horse, Ada, tell her grandma, not to mention, there are few black jockeys.” …
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THE BLACK POWER SALUTE
Dr. Martin Luther King had been killed earlier that year, and we were in some sort of turmoil with the racial tension that came from having yet …
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I'M THE FIRST SIMONE BILES
“ I’m going to go out there and represent the U.S.A., represent World Champions Centre, and represent Black and brown girls over the world, …
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LITTLE ROCK FIRST LADY
We watched our children, the Little Rock Nine be stopped from entering Central High School in September 1957 by the armed national guard …
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THE FATHER OF HAITI
You have probably heard about the cruelty that blacks endured with all the inhumane acts this group of people had to suffer from as slaves. …
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MOTHER EARTH'S HUMMING BIRD
You know, we cannot speak about black excellence without mentioning the first African woman to win a Nobel Prize? “I think you should have …
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VANESSA NAKATE'S VOICE
“ You did not just erase a photo. You erased a continent, ” said twenty-six-year-old, Ugandan climate activist, Vanessa Nakate, when …
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