They World says you can’t! But your history says you can! Great personal achievements by Africans of past and present is a constant reminder of our potential as a people more especially to the African Youth
Source: Atlantablackstar.com The Patent Act of 1793 and 1836 barred enslaved Africans from obtaining patents…
Source: Atlantablackstar.com Lewis Latimer (1848 – 1928) What He Invented: The Carbon Filament For The…
Source: Wikipedia.org Khadja Nin was born in Burundi, the youngest of a family of eight.…
Source: Wikipedia.org Ismaël Lô (also Ismaël Lo) is a Senegalese musician and actor. He was…
Source : http://worldmusic.about.com Angelique Kidjo was born in Ouidah, Benin on July 14, 1960. Her…
Source : http://africanmusic.org/ Youssou n’Dour was born in Dakar in 1959 and began singing as…
Source : http://worldmusic.about.com Cesaria Evora was born in 1941 in Mindelo, Cape Verde. The Cape…
Source : http://africanmusic.org Salif Keita, born in 1949 in Djoliba, is sometimes called the Golden…
Source: http://africanmusic.org Singer, Civil Rights Activist (1932–2008) South African diva Miriam Makeba is well known…
Source: http://www.biography.com Civil Rights Activist, Pianist, Drummer, Songwriter (1938–1997) “If you see me strictly as…
Source: http://www.blackhistorystudies.com 1. Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jnr was born on 17 August 1887 in St…
Chris Hani tells us about the Wankie campaign, the first attempt at an armed incursion…
Remember Sobukwe! Footage on a great son of Africa, one that has been deliberately erased…
Source: http://www.biography.com Civil Rights Activist, Minister (1929–1968) Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister…
Source: http://atlantablackstar.com African military history is considered one of the oldest in the world. These…
originally posted on AtlantaBlackStar.com I first met Ivan Van Sertima in either late 1980 or…
Originally posted on AtlantaBlackStar.com This work is dedicated to Dr. John Henrik Clarke. Critical Assessments…
Source: Atlantablackstar.com For me and many others, Marcus Garvey qualifies as the greatest Black man…
originally posted on AtlantaBlackStar.com BY RUNOKO RASHIDI* The history of African people is so vast…
As a Black man and an African historian, I have found that one of the…