Founder
Fannie Lou Hamer – The Woman They Beat in Jail and...
The facts, then. On August 22, 1964, a Black sharecropper from Mississippi sat before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic...
The Slave Ship Named Jesus: How a German Carrack Launched England’s...
A ship called Jesus of Lübeck launched from a German port around 1520. It was a carrack, a large sailing vessel weighing about 700...
David Isom Desegregated Swimming Pools 1958
On June 8, 1958, a 19-year-old Black man named David Isom walked up to the ticket window at the Spa Pool in St. Petersburg,...
Hannibal Barca – Rome’s Greatest Enemy Who Became the Father of...
The facts, then. Hannibal Barca was born in Carthage in 247 BCE. His name in Punic meant "grace of Ba'al", the supreme god of...
Ernest E. Just – The Cell Surface Pioneer Science Ignored
The facts, then. Ernest Everett Just was born on August 14, 1883, in Charleston, South Carolina. His father and grandfather were builders. When Just...
The Engine of British Music – How Black Music Powers 80%...
The facts, then. In March 2026, UK Music released the first report of its kind in Europe. It proved what many inside the industry...
Stagecoach Mary: The Former Slave Who Drove the Mail Through Montana’s...
In 1895, a 60 year old former slave named Mary Fields secured a contract to deliver US mail by stagecoach between Cascade, Montana, and...
The Striker England Chose Then Changed Its Mind
The facts, then. On a Tuesday morning in October 1925, Plymouth Argyle manager Bob Jack called his inside-left into the office. He put an...
Lord Woodbine: The Beatles First Manager History Forgot
The Beatles' first manager was not Brian Epstein. It was not Allan Williams either, though Williams gets that credit often. The man who first...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe Invented Rock and Roll – Then History Forgot...
Imagine a world where rock and roll exists but no one knows who created it. That world is real. It happened. And the person...
