Angelina Weld Grimké (February 27, 1880 - June 10, 1958) was an African-American poet, journalist, teacher, and playwright who was part of the Harlem Renaissance.[1] Grimké was born in Boston, Massachusetts, into a biracial family whose ancestors included slaveholders, abolitionists, European-American slaves, and Midwesterners. Her father, Archibald Grimké, was a lawyer, the 2nd black man to have graduated from Harvard Law School. He was appointed consul to the Dominican Republic from 1894 throu
source queen of scotland It is not widely known that early Greece and in fact Europe was once the domain of the Black race. the early Blacks of Greece were known by names such as Pelasgians. Whites…
You thought that only "white" people lived in Appalachia? So did I! But think again we were both wrong!
In an age where history is seriously being rewritten, new information is coming forth that is shocking intellectual sensitivities. What was once considered written in stone is now melting away with the discovery of facts that heretofore have been hidden or omitted; things so different that they are generally classified as controversial or unusual. ...
Tennessee-based genealogy researcher Roberta Estes has found that the derisively-known mixed-race Appalachian group called the Melungeons can trace their roots to Africa.
Teaching about racist patterns of murder, theft, displacement, and wealth inequality through the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.
From daughters to soldiers, from wives to weaponized, they remain the only documented frontline female troops in modern warfare history. A sub-saharan band of female terminators who left their European colonisers shaking in their boots, foreign observers named them the Dahomey Amazons while they cal
Ira Aldridge was the first internationally famous African-American actor. He became a renowned interpreter of Shakespearean tragedy on the European stage. Aldridge was born on in 1807, in New York City and was the son of Lurona and Daniel Aldridge. His father, a Presbyterian minister worried about his son's interest in the theater and sent ...
Walter Francis White was affectionately called “Mr NAACP” by African Americans during his lifetime. It is a terrible shame that Walter White who dedicated his whole life to the uplif…
Kingdom of Whydah Crowning of the King of Whydah, by Jacob van der Schley (1715-1779) The Kingdom of Whydah /ˈhwɪdə/ was a kingdom on the coast of West Africa in …
Racism is deeply embedded in our culture. Slavery of African people, ethnic cleansing of Native Americans and colonialist imperialism are seeds that intertwine to create racism that still has impacts today. One example of the sad human history of racism -- of colonizers seeing themselves as superior to others -- is the long history of human zoos that featured Africans and conquered indigenous peoples, putting them on display in much the same way as animals. People would be kidnapped and brought to be exhibited in human zoos. It was not uncommon for these people to die quickly, even within a year of their captivity. This history is long and deep and continued into the 1950s. Several articles below with lots of photos so we can see the reality of this terrible legacy
The storytellers assumed we’d be sharp enough to pick up on their hints that Sir Morien was black. Turns out, we’re not
Racism is deeply embedded in our culture. Slavery of African people, ethnic cleansing of Native Americans and colonialist imperialism are seeds that intertwine to create racism that still has impacts today. One example of the sad human history of racism -- of colonizers seeing themselves as superior to others -- is the long history of human zoos that featured Africans and conquered indigenous peoples, putting them on display in much the same way as animals. People would be kidnapped and brought to be exhibited in human zoos. It was not uncommon for these people to die quickly, even within a year of their captivity. This history is long and deep and continued into the 1950s. Several articles below with lots of photos so we can see the reality of this terrible legacy
Freebie time! This one's just in time for Black History Month, but it's a great social studies activity for any time of year. Students will love using these short biographies to learn about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr.!
Discovering Our History
The history of the Western African female soldiers known for their prowess will be revealed in a live-action series. The program is titled Amazons after the
Julia Amanda Perry is the first African American woman to have her orchestral work performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in London. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, on March 25, 1924, Perry was raised in Akron, Ohio, … Read MoreJulia Amanda Perry (1924-1979)
(Transcribed by Donna R. Causey) SAND MOUNTAIN MELUNGEON FAMILIES A DNA PERSPECTIVE FROM WHEN SCOTLAND WAS JEWISH AND JEWS AMONG THE INDIANS by DONALD N. YATES. Sand Mountain is a flat-topped extension of the Cumberland Plateau stretching over a hundred miles along the Tennessee River in the states of Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. Its […]
Born of the mixed parentage of an English father and a Creek mother, Osceola is a prominent figure in Seminole tribal history, recognized by many as the
“Choosing your surname gives you that power to say, ‘This is what I’m gonna be called from now on,’” explained genealogist Kenyatta Berry.
