The traditional African roots of twerking [Videos]
WEBFeb 14, 2018 · The word was even added to the Oxford dictionary in 2015. Twerking may have gotten its name from the bounce craze of early 1990s New Orleans, but its origins are decidedly African. As Kelechi ...
Read Marcus Garvey’s speech he delivered in 1922 outlining the ...
WEBNov 25, 2019 · Over five years ago the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A.)placed itself before the world as the movement through which the new and rising Negro would give expression of his feelings.
The real story of the last days of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
WEBAug 27, 2018 · Haile Selassie, born Ras Tafari Makonnen, was everything from monarch to the returned messiah as believed by the Rastafari movement which reveres him as God incarnate. He was also the Chairperson ...
How this enslaved man was made to serve as a breeder to …
WEBMar 18, 2021 · 95-year-old Lucille Burden Osborne said while growing up in a house that contained family members who had survived slavery, she heard stories about her great-grandfather, McGruder.
The little-known story of how Haile Selassie became the symbol of …
WEBJul 25, 2019 · In a Jamaican church in 1920, Garvey is said to have uttered the often-quoted words, “Look to Africa when a black king shall be crowned, for the day of deliverance is at hand.”For this reason ...
Africans who played an active role in the Transatlantic slave trade
WEBBetween 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to North America, the Caribbean and South America, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. Only about 10.7 million survived ...
A look at the 'love' affairs between enslaved black men and rich …
WEBFeb 5, 2020 · The theories abound. Everything from Freudian justifications of fulfilling carnal desires and curiosities to good-old love and romance has been propounded. Whatever the reasons, there are ...
From light to dark: how Africans got so many tones of skin color
WEBSep 30, 2022 · Recent scientific findings show that the early dwellers in Africa had paler skins which later evolved into dark ones. The skin of Africans has undergone various changes over the last 900,000 years ...
11 things to know about Patrice Motsepe, Africa's first Black ...
WEBDec 21, 2022 · Patrice Motsepe is a South African billionaire with a net worth of $2.7 billion. In 2008, he became the first Black African to be featured on the Forbes list of world billionaires at the age of 46 ...
Mami Wata, the most celebrated mermaid-like deity from Africa …
WEBJul 20, 2018 · Mami Wata traces back to the earliest of African societies as recorded by the griots and keepers of history. The Dogon’s creation myth tells the stories of Mami Wata and traces records of its ...