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“He could often be seen swimming across the Seine with only one arm, and in skating his skill exceeded everyone else’s. As to the pistol, he rarely missed the target. In running he was reputed to be one of the leading exponents in the whole of Europe.”

Source: Chevalier de Saint-Georges — Badass of the Week

Thutmose III was the Pharaoh of the Exodus, a military genius, and one of the most successful Black Kings in history. His story is real Black History.

Source: Why Thutmose III Is One Of The Baddest Black Men To Ever Walk The Earth |The Pan-African Alliance

Aiming to spur public investment in the arts, Karen Smith says, ‘I want to put a face on what it means to be an artist in Oakland.’

Source: An Oakland Metalsmith Risks Instability to Bring Metal Arts to Black Girls | The Hustle | KQED Arts

Patrice Lumumba was a radical leader of the Congolese independence movement who resisted Belgian colonialism and corporate interests. That’s why he was assassinated in a US-backed coup 59 years ago

Source: Why They Killed Patrice Lumumba

Since the 7th century, Africans have maintained a consistent commercial relationship with China. During the Tang Dynasty, Arab traders brought African slaves from east Africa to China. They comprised one of the many commodities in the Arabs’ large-scale maritime trade with China. During this era, the first Chinese cultural perception of African people developed. These “dark-skinned” people were known as Kunlun. They were described as lower class, ignorant, scary, and dangerous. Although there were far more enslaved Chinese, some wealthy Chinese preferred the exotic Kunlun slaves.

African slavery in China peaked during the Tang and Song (960 A.D. to 1279 A.D.) dynasties but the number of African slaves taken to China during this 608-year period is unclear. By this point Chinese perceptions of the Kunlun became more complex. These perceptions ranged from strong and mysterious to frightening.

In the article below independent historian Robin Loftin explores the past, present, and possible future relationship between the world’s most populous nation and people of African ancestry. Africa and China have had contact for more than a thousand years. Some scholars assert that the contacts …

Read More: Africans and African Americans in China: A Long History, A Troubled Present, and a Promising Future?

Source: Africans and African Americans in China: A Long History, A Troubled Present, and a Promising Future? •

There’s nothing the system of white supremacy fears more than a conscious melanated mind that…

Source: A Conscious Melanated Mind Is The Greatest Threat To System Of White Supremacy

I am trying very hard to find a way to explain why I always say that Africa has never had a religion except those which were introduced to the continent by imperialists. And also, why I say that religion has nothing to do with spirituality and in that line, religion is a handmade of conquerors …

Source: African Spirituality and Cultures are not Religions – The people’s news africa

FROM THE ARCHIVES The world’s earliest known illustrated copy of the Gospels, the Garima Gospels, has been saved for centuries in a remote Ethiopian monastery. The astonishingly beautiful Ga…

Source: The oldest, most complete Gospel book on Earth is in Ethiopia

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.

Source: I Don’t Mind Telling My Daughter to Fight Back, Physically, When Assaulted | Houston Press