🌟 Explore the captivating journey of Sam Taylor, an African American with a sixth-grade education, who defied the odds and changed the course of history in 1922 Chicago. 🏙️ From sweeping floors to sparking his interest in electrical work, Sam’s determination led to the birth of the Taylor Electric Company, a beacon of resilience. 🛠️ […]
75% of all enslaved Africans coming to America came in through Beaufort and the sea islands of South Carolina. This beautiful and picturesque tourist destination, by its unique history is the epicenter of the Gullah culture and the foundation of African American history; the result of the mingling of West African slaves with the plantation […]
Ahead of the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Trymaine Lee travels to the neighborhood once known as Black Wall Street, where residents say the effects of the devastating violence endured for generations, and Black Tulsans are left asking, “What does justice look like after 100 years?” » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » […]
African-American history began with the arrival of Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. Former Spanish slaves who had been freed by Francis Drake arrived aboard the Golden Hind at New Albion in California in 1579. source Related Posts Why Not Everyone Supports Black History Month Black History Month originated in 1925 […]
Shirley Anita Chisholm was an American politician, educator, and author. In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress, and she represented New York’s 12th congressional district for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. It’s like Netflix for history… Sign up to History Hit, the world’s best history documentary service, […]
In writing INVISIBLE MAN in the late 1940s, Ralph Ellison brought onto the scene a new kind of black protagonist, one at odds with the characters of the leading black novelist at the time, Richard Wright. If Wright’s characters were angry, uneducated, and inarticulate — the consequences of a society that oppressed them — Ellison’s […]
![Islam in Africa – History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi [Episode 9]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tcF-e6RhLzU/maxresdefault.jpg "Islam in Africa – History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi [Episode 9]")
In this episode Zeinab Badawi travels to several countries and looks at the early spread of Islam in Africa and how many Africans practise to this day a mystic, Sufi form of the religion. She shows how not only Islam but Arab culture came to influence a large part of the continent, particularly in the […]
Between the years 950 AD to 1290 AD, on the Northern border of South Africa, traversing the conference of the Shashi – Limpopo Valley, which today divides Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, existed an ancient African Kingdom, called Mapungubwe. From the Iron Age to present day this unique one-hour film explores the history and tells […]
![Mother Africa – History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi [Episode 1]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ETnIsBnNRr0/maxresdefault.jpg "Mother Africa – History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi [Episode 1]")
In this first episode, Zeinab Badawi travels across the continent examining the origins of humankind; how and why we evolved in Africa – Africa is the greatest exporter of all time: every human being originated in Africa. During her journey Zeinab is granted rare access to the actual bones of one of the most iconic […]
In 1958, an Italian archaeologist discovered the mummified remains of a two-and-a-half-year-old boy in a cave in southwestern Libya. But this was a mummy with a difference: it was far older than any comparable examples found in Egypt. The culture that produced the mummy were cattle herders, and occupied much of North Africa, at a […]