One of Africa’s most heinous atrocities occurred eighty-five years ago. During the Italian occupation, Yekatit 12 was a three-day bloodbath in which Fascist Italy killed over...
The Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers in Richmond, Virginia was the first Black-owned bank in the United States. Reverend William...
Curaçao, a small island off the coast of Venezuela, was inhabited by Arawak natives until it was invaded by Spanish sailors in 1499. Following their discovery...
A little over 4 million of the over 12 million slaves captured from Africa to work on the vast plantations of the Americas spent their lives...
Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s leader, came to power in a coup in 1969 and was deposed in 2011. While some believe that his leadership brought the country...
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, an African-American cardiologist, became the first surgeon in the United States to execute a successful open-heart treatment in 1893, exactly 125 years...
The Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day commemorates the life and times of the great Osagyefo, the inspiring leader and one-of-a-kind man of courage who led Ghana to...
Eunuchs were castrated African men kidnapped from Darfur, Abyssinia, Korodofan, Zanzibar, and other African countries and sent to the courts of sultans in Turkey, Arabia, and...
According to history, Juan de Córdoba of Seville was the first merchant to send an African slave to the New World in 1502. The Spanish authorities...
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also known as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, started in 1935 and lasted seven months, culminating in the military occupation of Ethiopia. Italy...
