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Namibia gains independence
The History of NamibiaThe country has ever since that historical day; 21 March 1990 enjoyed peace, stability and progress in many ways. Namibia is also known as the smile of Africa because, of its geographical position and the friendliness and warmth of its citizens. Currently the country has
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Mar
21
1990
Olajuwon, Hakeem
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War of 1812
War of 1812: Although the U.S. Army did not enlist African Americans after the Revolutionary War, the U.S. Navy continued to use African Americans as seamen because of the perennial shortage of white sailors. The African American presence in the navy placed them at the center of the naval incident
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Jun
16
2002
After the Underground Railroad: Finding the African North Americans who Returned from Canada
The Underground Railroad which fugitive slaves followed from the antebellum South to Canada is now a well-known story. But what of those who returned?  In his ongoing research, University of Texas at El Paso historian Adam Arenson explores this little-known aspect of nineteenth- century African
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Book of the Dead
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Moore's Ford Lynching
During the late afternoon of the 25th of July 1946 four African-Americans were shot dead by a lynch mob at Moores Ford, Walton county, Georgia, about eight miles from the town of Monroe. The grotesquely sprawled bodies of the victims--the Coroner said at least sixty bullets were pumped into
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Jul
25
1946
(1890) Joseph C. Price, “Education and the Problem,”
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Christopher Columbus
Following the introduction of cattle into the Caribbean in 1493, during Christopher Columbus’s second voyage, cattle ranching proliferated along a series of frontiers across the grasslands of North and South America. While historians have recognized that Africans and their descendants were involved
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Somalia
Somalia sōmä´leə [key], country (2005 est. pop. 8,591,000), 246,200 sq mi (637,657 sq km), extreme E Africa. It is directly south of the Arabian peninsula across the Gulf of Aden. Somalia comprises almost the entire African coast of the Gulf of Aden and a longer stretch on the Indian Ocean. It is
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Death of Bishop R. C. Lawson
Bishop R. C. Lawson died July 2, 1961 in New York
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Jul
2
1961
(1830) Rev. Peter Williams, Jr. “This is Our Country”
Fourteen years after its founding the American Colonization Society remained controversial among African Americans.  By 1830 many of them opposed it and more generally the idea of forced or voluntary repatriation of blacks to Africa.   One of these opponents, Rev. Peter Williams, Jr., the minister
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Jul
4
1830
Ghana breaks colonialistic mold.
On this day, Ghana becomes a free self-governing nation. This country will be the first of the British Commonwealth of Nations to be self-governing.
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Sep
7
1957
Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in New York City, 1920
Marcus Garvey presents his Back To Africa program in New York City, 1920
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Aug
2
1920
Ursula Burns
Born: 9/20/1958 New York City, New YorkBurns was appointed CEO of Xerox in 2009, and over the last 5 years, she has worked tirelessly towards transforming the company’s image as a manufacturer of printers to a full-fledged services business. And it’s working well. Services now represent 57% of the
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Korematsu v. United States
Korematsu v. US
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Dec
18
1944
President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802
President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 which forbade racial and religious discrimination in war industries, government training programs and government industries. Randolph called off scheduled march.
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Jun
25
1941
Queen Nzingha Joins the Ancestors
Queen Nzingha, amazon queen of matamba west africa, joins the ancestors on this day. Nzingha was a warrior queen who waged war again Europeans. Her formation of strategic alliances and fighting prowess urged other great african leaders totake a stand against the colonialism/imperialistic regimes of
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Dec
17
1663
Amin (Dada), Idi (1925-2003)
Idi Amin was the Ugandan military dictator and President from 1971 to 1979.  During his reign Amin’s military forces are estimated to have killed 500,000 people and exiled roughly 70,000 non-Ugandan nationals (mostly Indians) from
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McFerrin, Robert Keith, Sr. (1921–2006)
In 1953 baritone Robert McFerrin Sr. made history as the first African American to win the Metropolitan Opera House’s Auditions of the Air radio contest.  On January 27, 1955, in the role of Ethiopian King Amonasro in Verdi’s Aida, McFerrin made history again by becoming the first African American
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The Great Blacks in Wax Museum.
In 1983, Doctors Elmer and Joanne Martin opened a wax museum, the first of its kind in the nation, as well as, Baltimore, Maryland of African Americans leaders that were made of
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Jan
0
1983
First Black Secretary General of UN
Kofi Annan of Ghana becomes first black secretary of United Nations.
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Jan
1
1997
Death of Queen Nzingha of Angola
On December 17, 1663 Queen Nzingha of Angola died at the age of 81. Belonging to the ethnic group known as the Jugas, Nzingha led the stiffest opposition to European dominaion in Africas interior, winning battle after battle against the Portuguese.
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Sponsored by APEX Museum
Dec
17
1663
Mary J. Blige
Mary Jane Blige is an American singer, songwriter and actress who has been making hit records for almost 25 years. She was born on January 11, 1971 in the Bronx, New York to Cora and Thomas Blige. She grew up in a very neglected and disastrous neighborhood and her childhood was marked by
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Jan
11
1971
Perkins, John [aka "Jack Punch"] ( -1812)
Captain John Perkins, nicknamed Jack Punch, was the first black commissioned officer in the Royal Navy. His date of birth and origins are unknown but Perkins first appeared in Navy records in 1775 when he joined as a ship’s pilot aboard HMS Antelope, the flagship of the Jamaica station. In 1778 he
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Jan
27
1812
Hannibal Barca
Hannibal Barca, one of the greatest military leaders of all time was born in Carthage, which is located in todays Tunisia, a northern country in Africa.
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Jan
0
0
The Notting Hill Riots (1958)
Amidst racial intolerance and competition over resources, the white working class of the Notting Hill area, London, UK, launched an attack against members of the black community on August the 30, 1958. Forced to arm themselves in defence, the confrontation lasted
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African Heritage
All Caribbean stories are known as Ananse stories even if Ananse does not appear in them. Ananse is the god of joke and trickery from the Ashanti peoples of Ghana. He was the unseen passenger on the slave ships and played a very important function in keeping the dispossed Africans connected to the
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Jan
0
1999
The Bloodiest Race Riot in History
Hostility to draft and fear of Blacks, the cause of the war and potential competitors in the labor market, led to New York Draft Riots, one of the bloodiest race riots in American history. Mobs swept through streets, murdered Blacks and hanged them on lamp posts.
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Jul
13
1863
The United States Colored Troops (1863-1865)
The United States Colored Troops (USCT) was the designation given to the approximately 175 regiments of non-white soldiers that served during the Civil War. The troops were primarily African American, but Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders were all included within the
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Jan
1
1863
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