YET THE ACTUAL VANILLA BEAN IS BLACK Southern Blacks were banned from eating Vanilla Ice Cream during the Jim Crow Era, except on the 4th of July. The racist hierarchy in the South manifested in several ways, but most people don’t know that racism even impacted what foods blacks were allowed to bu

Let me remind you somethin': we aren't Americans; we weren't brought here to taste the freedom and enjoy apple pie. We were brought here as enslaved Africans on piss poor boats that somehow managed to survive. We picked their cotton, their indigo, their tobacco that gives them cotton, a

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Ignorance breeds ignorance, Black on Black Crime is the direct results of many things Europeans living in America have done to Africa people. When we had our own during Segregation they torched, bombed and killed black people destroyed homes, businesses. Which later resulted we tried to have what t

Racism isn't as simple as this picture makes it out to be, there are so many levels to racism that it took me awhile to truly see and understand the depth of racism. Yes most of the time we do catch glimpses of racism in the act in our phones but I'm map out various forms of racism that sti

Dr. Marimba Ani Dr. Marimba Ani is an anthropologist and African Studies scholar best known for her book “Yurugu,” a comprehensive critique of European thought and culture. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Chicago, and holds masters and doctorate degrees in anthropo

Dr. Amos Wilson Dr. Amos N. Wilson (1941 – 1995) was a social caseworker, psychological counselor, supervising probation officer and training administrator in the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice. He was also an assistant professor of psychology at the City University of New York.

Dr. Anthony Martin Dr. Anthony Martin (1942 – 2013) was a Trinidadian-born professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. He was a lecturer and prolific author of scholarly articles about black history and was considered the world’s foremost authority on Jamaican black na

Born in Senegal/Gambia in about 1753, poet Phillis Wheatley was brought to Boston, Massachusetts, on a slave ship in 1761 and was purchased by John Wheatley as a personal servant to his wife. The Wheatleys educated Phillis and she soon mastered Latin and Greek, going on to write highly acclaimed po

African Creation stories(folklore). The Boshongo of the Congo River The Boshongo tell the story of a creator named Bumba. He made the skies, the sun and the moon. He also created the African Cosmogony before he created human beings. The beings of the African Cosmogony all created one another.