"For while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness."
-James Baldwin (Sonny's Blues)-
Inside is just a morsel of the good, the bad, and the ugly, in regards to the enigma that is black history: the history of dark others that were shipped from a land, their own, to slave for the sake of others for centuries, yet became much more. Within are 28 lesser known black history facts, spanning not just black American history, but black history from around the world. Check it out.
Read MoreJust another case of what could have been and never was, in the ongoing saga of a racially turbulent America. The Rosewood Massacre, like the Destruction of Black Wall Street, and the deaths of Emmett Til and countless other black men, started with the false allegation of the assault of a white woman.
Read MoreArmed with both growing fears of an increasingly darker population of Brasilians, and the desperate embrace of pseudo-scientific beliefs of white superiority, the Brasilian elite took measures to "whiten" itself by opening its borders to millions of European immigrants while banning African immigrants. Needless to say, it worked.
Read MoreThe Tulsa race riot of 1921: the bombing of a highly prosperous and self-sustaining black neighborhood. What could have been if it had never been destroyed? We'll never know.
Read MoreBefore President Obama, there was Vincente Guerrero: the first black president of the Americas.
Read MoreThe life of one of the richest men to ever live, that most people will never be taught about or learn of.
Read MoreOne of the largely unknown heroes of the Americas who helped free fellow slaves and establish one of the first black communities. It is presently a town in Mexico, called Yanga.
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