For the past few months, I’ve been researching and writing a series of stories on the role of women in the 1920s-era Ku Klux Klan. It’s a sensational subject, full of disturbing anecdotes and…
Source: No, talking about women’s role in white supremacy is NOT blaming women
Modern slavery is still a huge issue across the world. Here’s how several countries are trying to end it.
Source: How Are Countries Trying to End Modern Slavery? | Time
Jesse Owens is still the most famous name from the 1936 Olympics in Nazi-controlled Berlin. But a new documentary highlights 17 other African-American athletes who also made their mark.
Source: Black U.S. Olympians Won In Nazi Germany Only To Be Overlooked At Home : The Torch : NPR
African American men, women and children were burned alive, shot, hanged or beaten to death by white mobs. Thousands of homes and businesses were burned to the ground, their owners driven out — many never to return.
Again and again, documented historical evidence has shattered widely held views that Europeans were the pioneers of early human civilization. In fact, there is corroborative evidence that half of humanity’s recorded history has passed before anyone in Europe could even learn to read and write.
Source: The First European Scholars Were Taught By Africans In Egypt (Read Full History)
When Ivorian artist O’Plerou Denis Grebet was looking for free stock images of Africa for a project at the time, he only came across negative images of disease and poverty. He decided to do something about it.
Source: O’Plerou Grebet has created more than 300 African emojis – CNN
Not until recently did most commentators on African literary history believe that African societies had any form of writing tradition. Since the rediscovery of ancient manuscript collections, with some dating back to at least the 8th century AD, this perception has gradually lost popularity.
Source: 700,000 Ancient African Books Have Survived In Mali’s Timbuktu University
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