Everybody HasTo Be Involved In Project Africa.

Few people know the story of Claudette Colvin (Born September 5, 1939, in Montgomery, Alabama). When she was 15, Colvin was arrested in March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat to a white person. She was arrested and became one of four plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, which ruled that Montgomery's segregated bus system was unconstitutional. Colvin was the first to really challenge the law.

In early 1955, Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old black girl...

Michelle Janine Howard (born April 30, 1960) is the first female African American 2 star Rear Admiral upper class in the United States Navy. Admiral Howard commanded the ship that saved the widely reported kidnapped captain of the seized cargo ship Maersk Alabama from Somali Pirates. Howard received the assignment of leading the U.S. Navy’s counter-piracy task force just three days before attack. She assumed command of Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 2 and Combined Task Force (CTF)...

Mary Elizabeth Bowser (born 1839, date of death unknown) was an American freed slave who worked in connection with Elizabeth Van Lew as a Union spy during the Civil War.

Bowser was born a slave on a plantation near Richmond, Virginia to owner John Van L...

if you cant die for it, put the word ''freedom'' out of your vocabulary

-Malcom X

Happy birthday Malcom, we love you ♥

We need to pause to think about him, because he left, for us, important social and political lessons.

Though Malcolm's life was short, it was marked by dramatic change. He was born into poverty, madness and racial violence. His youthful arrogance, crime and indulg...

The Black Liberation Struggle: What Really Happened Off the ’60s —And What Did Not

The masses answered this question, unmistakably. People rebelled in hundreds of American cities,25 and the revolutionary stance of leaders like Malcolm X and forces like the Black Pant...

Wife of the Hon Marcus Garvey..

Amy Euphemia Jacques-Garvey Born in Kingston, Jamaica Dec 31, 1895 - July 25, 1973 the second wife of Marcus Garvey, did not derive her legitimacy from the status of her husband. She was a leading Pan-Africanist and Black Nationalist in her own right. Amy Garvey was one of the key political leaders, archivist, and interpreters of the Garvey movement. She participated direc...

James Pierson Beckwourth (April 6, 1798 Frederick County, Virginia – October 29, 1866, Denver) was an American mountain man, fur trader, and explorer. A mulatto born into slavery in Virginia, he later moved to the American West. As a fur trapper, he lived with the Crow for years. He is credited with the discovery of Beckwourth Pass through the Sierra Nevada (U.S.) Mountains between present day Reno, Nevada and Portola, California during the California Gold Rush years, and improved the B...

Although she may have been one of the toughest women ever to work in a convent, 'Black Mary' had earned the respect and devotion of most of the residents of the pioneer community of Cascade, Montana, before she died in 1914. In fact, Mary Fields was widely beloved. She was admired and respected throughout the region for holding her own and living her own way in a world where the odds were stacked against her. In a time when African Americans and women of any race enjoyed little freedom anywhe...

Kwame Nkrumah's diarygoes home on the 40th anniversary of his death

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvaniaorders the release of President Nkrumah's diary to his daughter, the HonorableSamia Yaba Nkrumah, M.P.

Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was vocalist and actress who was a key figure in the development of African American culture between the two World Wars. She broke barrier after barrier, becoming the first black woman heard on the radio, the first black singer to perform on television, the first African American to perform in an integrated cast on Broadway, and the first black woman to perform in a lead dramatic role on Broadway. She opened all the theatrical doors h...

Mark Matthews (August 7, 1894 – September 6, 2005) was an American veteran of the Second World War and a Buffalo Soldier. Born in Alabama and growing up in Ohio, Matthews joined the 10th Cavalry Regiment when he was only 15 years old, after having been recruited at a Lexington, Kentucky racetrack and having documents forged so that he appeared to meet the minimum age of 17. While stationed in Arizona, he joined General John J. Pershing's Mexico expeditio...

Susie Baker King Taylor (1848-1912) was the first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves in Georgia

Writer, producer, director Oscar Micheaux was the first African-American to produce a feature length film, and one of the most prolific independent film producers of all time. He is considered a major figure in early American films and a symbol of the artist triumphing over long odds to bring his vision to the public.

Born in 188...

Physicist and inventor George Carruthers built his first telescope at age 10, and has spent the rest of his life making important contributions to the study of outer space. Carruthers has developed ways to use ultraviolet imaging in order to view images in deep space that were previously impossible to see. In 1972, Carruthers invented the "Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectograph," the first moon-based observatory. It was used in the Apollo 16 mission. Then, in 1986, one of his inventions captured ...

Not bless America, God damn America."

Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered three fiery sermons about faith, race and politics at Metropolitan Baptist Church in S.C.

Rev. Wright Unleashed: ‘White Supremacy’ Drives ‘World Policy,’ Allah & Yahweh Are the ‘Same’…and Clarence Thomas Is Worshipping ‘Some Other God’

Wright said Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas worships “some other God” outside of “...

BLACKS AROUND THE WORLD MUST UNITE TO ELIMINATE THE NEW COLONIALISM AND GENOCIDE OF BLACKS

It is very apparent that colonialism and racism is not over in Africa or in...

(1858) John S. Rock, “I Will Sink or Swim with My Race”

Schoolteacher, dentist, physician, lawyer, graduate of the American Medical College in Philadelphia, member of the Massachusetts bar, proficient in Greek and Latin, Dr. John S. Rock was unequivocally one of the most distinguished African American leaders to emerge in the United States during the antebellum era. On March 5, 1858, Dr. Rock deliver...