“The Detroit River frontier, which encapsulates the present Detroit are and the counties of Essex and Kent in Ontario, was also a centre of French habitation and hence slavery. Black slavery in the Detroit River district began when the fur trader and explorer Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac traveled to the region and in 1701 […]
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Book Excerpt Of The Week: “Seventh Child: A Family Memoir Of Malcolm X” By: Rodnell P. Collins
“Malcolm was led to his position by his vast knowledge of Black history in the United States. He constantly reminded us that the highly praised U.S. Constitution not only did not recognize human rights of Black people; it did not even acknowledge our ancestors as full human beings. To placate southern enslavers concerned about their […]
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The clip below shows what happened to the diary that Malcolm X was carrying in his breast pocket at the time of his death. [SIDEBAR: Be forewarned, there are some macabre parts to it. Also, a diary filled with DNA and screts?! Hmm.] Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »Boley, Oklahoma: An All Black Town
Boley, Oklahoma was a Black operated town. This town was home to the first Black-owned electric company. This town also had a Black rodeo that attracted tens of thousands of patron every weekend. Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »Bil Cosby: Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed (Full)
A must see video! Bill Cosby talks about how history books were detrimentally altered to exclude and distort the true history of African-Americans. He also shows: How Picasso and other famous “artists” stole from African artists, the “master/pet relationship” between Shirley Temple and Bojangles, and the stereotypes portrayed in Hollywood. “If you tell the history […]
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A decades-old video of Bill Cosby talking about Black History facts. Very interesting…I wonder if this was actually aired on network television. [SIDEBAR: This is only part one. I will post the whole documentary within the week.] Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »Guns & Drums: The Stono Rebellion
“It was the slaves’ day off. About twenty of them of things rolling on Sunday, September 9, 1739, breaking into a warehouse less than twenty miles south of Charlestown, South Carolina, grabbing guns and powder, and shooting sentries that got in their way. They were African born, with memories of life in the Kingdom of […]
Read the rest of this entry »Slavery After Emancipation: Debt Slavery & Forced Confessions In Kangaroo Courts
“The county convict leasing system, with its efficient mechanisms for forcing Black men to do the bidding of White business operators, soon leached into the process of collecting debts of any kind. White farmers who advanced money to Black tenants at the beginning of a crop season began to enforce their debts not by evicting […]
Read the rest of this entry »Slavery After Emancipation: The Beginning Of The Prison Industrial Complex- Part 4
“By the end of Reconstruction in 1877, every formerly Confederate state except Virginia had adopted the practice of leasing Black prisoners into commercial hands. There were variations among the states, but all shared the same basic formula. Nearly all the penal functions of government were turned over to the companies purchasing convicts. In return for […]
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