Prolific Black Figures
Hey y'all! Well, it’s almost that time! As we all know, February is the shortest month of the year and as such, is almost done. I like to...
Celebrating Black historical figures you may not have learned about in school.
Hey y'all! Well, it’s almost that time! As we all know, February is the shortest month of the year and as such, is almost done. I like to...
So I usually like to focus these articles on Black “firsts”, right? Like, there’s something historical in being the first to do this or...
The year is 1895, the place is Columbus, Georgia. It is here that lil baby Eugene Bullard is born to a free Black man named William and a...
Alright Star Trek fans, this one’s for you! So B/W interracial relationships have been a thing as long as Black and white folks have been...
“No one else was in the room where it happened!” Ummm…yes there was. Today we are gonna be talking about James Hemmings. James was the...
Today we’re bout to talk about bicycles, well more specifically bicycling, and even more specifically about Marshall “Major” Walter Biggs...
Okay, so imagine you’re a Black man in 1868. The Civil War ended three years ago, the Thirteenth Amendment has been ratified by most...
Reparations, kinda a volatile issue, right? Beyond the moral reasoning of: “Slavery was messed up, so Americans have a duty to make it...
Aight, so we gonna talk about Kamala, and we’re gonna do it respectfully, and we’re gonna keep the comment section free of political...
Okay, so it’s 1814. On a small plantation somewhere out by Lexington, Kentucky Elizabeth, an enslaved woman, gives birth to a lil baby...
Aight, I wouldn’t usually write about two athletes one after the other, but I was just introduced to the amazing story of Wilma Rudolph...
Althea Gibson was born in Silver, South Carolina in 1927. Both of her parents were sharecroppers and would spend their days picking...
Okay, y’all don’t get mad at me, but THIS is the one I should have done for Valentine's Day. I’mma tell y’all the story of Butler and...
If you know me at all, you probably know me as, “that guy who does Black History on Facebook” or “that guy I did a musical with this one...
“Adieu, New-England's smiling meads, Adieu, th' flow'ry plain: I leave thine op'ning charms, O spring, And tempt the roaring main.” This...
One of my biggest pet peeves is when people say things like, “History is boring.” Because, how can that even be true? I’ll agree that a...
This is the story of Mary Fields, a woman who cared about three things: freedom, staying strapped, and delivering mail in an orderly and...
We can’t talk about modern music without talking about Motown Records. Founded in 1959 by the legendary Berry Gordy, Motown is what...
One of the dopest things about the Hamilton musical is it reimagined the American Revolution with a cast of Black folks and other people...
The year is 1687, eight Black men, two Black women, and a little Black baby all tear off into the dark of night, escaping their Carolina...