Emmett Till, a 14 year old boy from Chicago, Illinois, was horrifically murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman. Till grew up...

Black people have been inventing, creating, and enhancing society for hundreds of years. In fact, Black people have invented almost...

I am going to teach you something they never taught you in school. As African Americans begin to push more for our culture and become...

Many African religions believe there is one supreme God, however, the myths of several African countries say that after getting the world...

Have you ever watched a movie set in the early 1900s and awed over their choice of clothing? And I do mean awed because, even then, the...

Just when you thought slavery and the cruelty of enslaved human beings couldn't get any worse, the very thing that makes America go...

In the mid-20th century (1914), in segregated St. Louis, Homer G. Phillips Hospital was built to cater to the city’s Black population....

It is very unfortunate that history books only dedicate a few pages to Ancient Egypt and Northern Africa during the 'Middle Ages.' Too...

A 2015 report conducted by the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Oberg Research found that while most teachers...

As Black Americans embrace the new federal Holiday, Juneteenth, that was passed quickly within the Senate on Thursday June 17th, 2021,...

Photo: O.W. Gurley, a Founder of the Greenwood District aka Black Wall Street (shown here circa 1921, bottom row, second) Exactly a...

The belief of a Supreme natural being has never been a doubt in African culture. Even before Europeans came and introduced Christianity,...

Back in 1912 a young Black couple in Manhattan Beach, a Southern California town, purchased the land at the Strand and 26th Street and...

Imagine sitting around a moonlight fire, surrounded by your brothers and sisters, waiting to hear a new tale from your great grandmother...

Black Americans have been marching, protesting, and fighting for equal rights for decades. Early in 1963, civil rights leaders in the...

The 1800's became a pivotal era for Black Americans, especially Black women. This is the period that gave rise to important events like...

Sungbo’s Eredo in Ijebu-Ode was bigger than Rome! A rainforest surrounded by a wall that stretches 100 miles long and seventy feet high...

It's hard to have this conversation without your blood boiling, though it isn't talked about nearly enough. Especially since half the...

Tattoos and epidermal alterations in Africa go further than just skin deep, they're signifiers for tribal affiliation and markings of...

I am really surprised by the amount of people that don’t know where Black History Month comes from. Let’s be real, I was one of them! I...

In 1876, Philadelphia hosted the Centennial Exhibition which was the official world fair held on US soil to commemorate the one-hundredth...

Carnival is a celebration, a time when the Soca is blasting, the waistline is peltin', and people from all walks of life can get together...

The word Kwanzaa comes from the Swahili phrase “matunda ya kwanza” or first fruits, referring to the agricultural harvest festivals that...

Ruby Bridges made history 60 years ago when she was the first African-American student to integrate an elementary school in the South. At...

“White Southerners, who settled the Hawaiian islands during the 19th Century had a song about the native people which ran, “You many call...

Have you used Crest toothpaste recently? Or Bounce fabric softener? Then the name Dr. Herbert Charles Smitherman Sr. is one you should...

He stood in his prime, majestic with an animal skin draped over one shoulder and a stick in his hand. His earlobes stretched from the...

“The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no Black Founding Fathers, there...

During the 1970s in the United States, there was a movement among Black women and men to wear their hair in its natural form, celebrating...

Thomas Sankara, known as Africa’s Che Guevara, was Burkina Faso’s revolutionary anti-imperialist leader. A staunch opponent of corruption...

A woman holds the ends of her skirt, coyly twirling away from the man dancing opposite her. The couple is dancing Rumba, more...

The Grenada Revolution was seen as the doorway into a future rid of the subjugation, oppression, and backwardness of the past. It was a...

Her dress flows to the ground, its intricate white lace design drawing your eyes in. There is a hint of a smile on her face as she rests...

When you wake up the first thing you’re probably reaching for is your phone. You may use it to check social media or maybe catch up on...

I have always found it fascinating the way recipes and food have been passed down through generations, and for some, they have stayed the...

Identifiable by its bold jazz and funk rhythms, instrumental solos, and highlife music, Afro Beat laid the foundation for what would...

When you think of which country was never colonized in Africa, you probably think of Ethiopia. However, Liberia is also known to be the...

In 1939, Poland’s capital Warsaw was a modern, bustling, cosmopolitan city with a population over one million, until it was brutally...

Have you recently eaten a Vanilla Wafer? Or do you have tubs of Vanilla ice cream waiting for you in the freezer? Well, you have Edmond...

Meet Bai Bureh, known also by his nickname Kebalai, “one who never tires of war,” who fanned the flames of Sierra Leone’s fight for...