April 5, 2011- NPR
Manning Marable's newly released biography of Malcolm X introduces new information that could reshape the widely accepted narrative of the Muslim leader's life.
Marable died on Friday, just days before the book's publication. T
Read more…Above, representatives from Italy's African colonies were brought to the Italian city of Santa Marinella to meet with Hitler during a state visit.
To the ancient Romans, the Mediter
a surviving member of Germany's tiny black minority during the Third Reich
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.--Marcus Garvey
A discussion of the black political philosophy of the 1900s would be incomplete without understanding the role played by Ma
I think God intended the n*ggers to be slaves...Now since man has deranged God's plan, I think the best we can do is keep 'em as near to a state of bondage as possible…My theory is, feed 'em well, clothe 'em well, and then, if they won't work…whip '
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From the mid to late 19th Century West India Day was held annually on August 1st in the United States uniting blacks and abolitionists from the British West Indies, British Canada, and Britain proper, with those in the North Eastern United States, a
Read more…Arab traders shown visiting the Malian King Mansa Musa
- medieval Catalan Atlas of Majorca, 1375 AD
According to African oral histories the small state of Kangaba, led by Sundiata defeated the nearby kingdom of Soso at the Battle of Kirina in 1235, fo
Read more…artistic rendition of Assyrian and Nubian soldier
Around 750BC, the city of Napata (around 400 km of modern day Khartoum in Sudan) rose to prominence. The city was part of an ancient kingdom, named famously after the Egyptian word for gold—"nub"—henc
Read more…"Meeting of Saint Erasmus of Formiae and Saint Maurice" by Matthias Grünewald (1517-23)
As the story goes, Maximilian was Emperor of the Roman Empire with Diocletian as his colleague. An uprising of the Gauls known as "Bagaude" forced Maximilian to m
Read more…A Songhai kingdom in the region of Gao had existed since the eleventh century, but it had come under the control of Mali in 1325. In the late fourteenth century, Gao reasserted itself with the Sunni dynasty, which would in turn found the far-reaching
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Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia 1889 to his death
Ethiopia Home of Sages/ Thou art still our noblest pride/ We, thy sons, through future ages /Will take thee for our guide--W.A. Scott, 1915 from History of Alpha Phi Alpha by Charles H. Wesley.
The
One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.--WEB Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt DuBois wa
"One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap." - Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, several months before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. The oldest of eight childre
The national women's history museum has an online exhibit up at http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/africanamerican/index.html called Claiming Their Citizenship: African American Women From 1624-2009.
The interface is a little lacking, but some of th
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On Feb. 21 1965, black activist leader Malcolm X, El Hajj Malik El-Shabaaz, was gunned down at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. Almost a year prior on April 3, 1964, following his split with Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, he gave
Read more…from the Book of Games of Alfonso X, 13th century
In 711AD medieval Spain was invaded by armies from the Muslim world. These invaders would rule the region for the next several hundred years, build lasting monuments and leaving an unmistakable influen
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The transformation of slaves, trembling in the hundreds before a single white man, into a people able to organize themselves and defeat the most powerful European nations of their day, is one of the great epics of revolutionary struggle and achievem
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Charlemagne (L) battles Marsile (R), black "heathen" Saracen king in the Song of Roland.
Grandes Chroniques de France . Bibliothèque Nationale
"And Ethiope a cursed land indeed;
The blackamoors there are in his keep,
Broad in the nose they are and flat
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wooden bust of elder Tiy, Great Royal Wife of Amenhotep III,
mother of Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) and grandmother of Tutankhamun
How manifold it is, what thou hast made, They are hidden from the face (of man), O sole god, like whom there is no other, T
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