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The Black Tax – 150 Years of Legalised Theft
The facts, then. In 2024, historian Andrew W. Kahrl published a book that exposes one of the longest running cons in American history. The...
Jane Bolin – First Black Female Judge in America
Jane Matilda Bolin was born on 11 April 1908 in Poughkeepsie, New York, the youngest child of Gaius Bolin and Matilda Ingram Emery. Her...
George W. McLaurin First Student at University of Oklahoma
George W. McLaurin was born on September 16, 1894, in Mississippi. In 1910, his family moved to the newly created state of Oklahoma. He...
The Champion They Wouldn’t Crown: Len Johnson and Britain’s Colour Bar
Leonard Benker Johnson was born on October 22, 1902, in Clayton, Manchester. His father was a merchant seaman from Sierra Leone. His mother was...
The Negro Act of 1740 – The Law That Invented American...
On May 10, 1740, the South Carolina General Assembly enacted the "Bill for the better ordering and governing of Negroes and other slaves in...
Job Maseko – How a Gold Miner Sank a German Ship...
Job Maseko was born around 1922 in KwaThema, a township in Springs, South Africa. He worked in the gold mines. When war came, he...
The Children They Tried to Erase: The Nazi Sterilisation of Afro-German...
In 1937, Nazi Germany launched a secret sterilisation programme targeting mixed-race children in the Rhineland. These were the children of German women and Black...
The Professor They Could Not Convict: Angela Davis and the 1972...
On 4 June 1972, an all-white jury in San Jose, California, found Angela Yvonne Davis not guilty of murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy. The charges...
The Man They Overthrew While He Was Trying to Save Other...
On February 21, 1966, Kwame Nkrumah boarded a plane for Hanoi. Ho Chi Minh had invited him to mediate the Vietnam War. Nkrumah believed...
“When They Found Out I Was Black, Their Interest Dropped”: The...
Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner was 12 years old when her family moved to Washington, D.C. Instead of exploring monuments, she walked the halls of...
