Last Sunday, Meghan Markle and her husband Harry agreed to sit down for an interview with Oprah. During the interview, Meghan alleged that the Royal family and its staff had been racist and hostile towards her when she married into their family.…
Amazon removed this documentary from its collection during Black History Month and offered the producers no explanation. However, the documentary remains available on several other platforms.
With unprecedented access, the producers interviewed Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Virginia, for over 30…
During the Atlantic slave trade about a quarter of the crew of each slave ship died on the voyage. The Life expectancy of a European who went to the West Indies was only five to ten years. Some Europeans tried to set…
The Center for Social Solutions at the University of Michigan is leading a group of college and university scholars in an effort to examine possible avenues to provide reparations for African Americans and Indigenous people. Reparations refers to compensation, which may include…
The Portuguese seized the island of Sao Tome in the Gulf of Guinea and about 200 miles west of Gabon. The plantations were supposed to produce sugar for the European market. This was one of the earliest forms of black labor used…
The Kuba kingdom did not become significant until about 1625. It is part of now present-day Democratic Republic of Congo. The Kuba Kingdom was a conglomerate of several smaller Bushongo-speaking principalities as well as the Kete, Coofa, Mbeengi, and the Kasai Twa…
Recent revelations show that a growing group of institutions (Colleges and Universities) not only benefited from the labor of enslaved people, but their founders were themselves enslavers. Many Colleges and Universities including Ivy League institutions used slave labor to build campuses, depended…
Thousands of lives were lost, and the tragedy is that 30 years later the questions remain unanswered. What really happened? It is a case that is as old and has its roots in pre-colonialism. When brother takes arm against brother this is…
Three hundred years ago, Edward Colston was one of the most notorious human traffickers in the world. He was second in command at the Royal African Company. The Navigation Act of 1660 enabled the Royal African Company to gain a monopoly over…
The ancestors of modern-day Somalis started living in present day Somalia around 750 A.D. During the scramble for Africa, the area around Djibouti was occupied by the French, the northern region long the Gulf of Aden all the way down south to…