Air Conditioning Inventor, Frederick McKinley Jones. Tweet
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Black History Fact Of The Day: George Washington & Slavery
“George Washington was a third-generation slaveholder, who with Martha owned more than three hundred slaves. He prized them particularly; as a signal of wealth in his world, such property exceeded gold and real estate. he had once wrote to a fellow planter urging that he send him strong slaves in good health who were not […]
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Theoretical Physicist, Sylvester James Gates Jr. Talks about his interest in physics and supersymmetry, and how to be a success. He seems like he could talk about science for days. It’s always inspirational to see someone love what they do. Tweet
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Marie Maynard Daly, the first African American woman in America to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry. Tweet
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This video shows vintage footage of the Move Organization and how they were attacked by the government. You can see the dangers of media propaganda, and how the voice of the people gets absurdly twisted. You can also see police brutality as it is exercised against the Black community. This is recent Black history (and […]
Read the rest of this entry »Elsie Law’s Dose Of The Law: Slave Trade Act of 1788
According to Wikipedia, “The Slave Trade Act 1788, also known as Dolben’s Act, was an Act of Parliament which placed limitations of the number of people that British slave ships could transport. Dutch ships were not subject to restrictions on the number of slaves they could carry.” The fact that the slave trade was “legally” […]
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“The French empire in the West Indies was built on sugar production and the labor of enslaved Africans. The Code Noir, a French legal code, regulated slavery in the West Indies. Though it was never made law in Canada, New France’s slaveholders applied the Code Noir when they thought it necessary. In 1685, when the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week, “Let The Trumpet Sound: The Life Of Martin Luther King Jr.” By: Stephen B. Oates
“The city fathers, however, refused to take the boycott seriously. ‘Comes the first rain day,’ the mayor said with a laugh, ‘and the Negroes will be back on the buses.’ In fact, it rained the next day. But the Negroes stayed off the buses, most of them trudging to work under umbrellas and newspapers, bundled […]
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