Rabbi Capers Funnye shares his views on the status of Ethiopian Jews in the Israeli community
learn moreJoseph Flores, Apache educator (retired) professor and counselor offers some historic points of intersectionality between African Americans and Native Americans
learn more*This date in 1810, celebrates Colombia’s Independence from Spain. This article affirms the history, culture and heritage of Afro-Colombians the countries citizens of African descent. Colombia is considered to have the fourth largest Black African population in the western hemisphere, after Brazil, Haiti and the United States. The Colombian Declaration of Independence refers to the episode in Santa Fe de Bogota, in the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New Granada. That day resulted in […]
learn moreSylvia Drew-Ivie, activist, lawyer and mental health expert, shares her fathers legacy as a champion for African America. She reads his April 1943 letter, The Negro Physician in the present war effort
learn more*On this date in 1947, India held its first election after their independence from Britain. African American Registry is using this month and date from 628 AD to affirm the Siddi people. They are an African ethnic group of India and Pakistan who are descended from the Bantu peoples of the East African region. The first Siddis arrived in India in the 7thCentury at the Bharuch port. Several others followed with […]
learn moreEducator and historian, Claytee White shares her viewpoints on the importance of more African Americans knowing more about their own heritage
learn more*Thanksgiving, 1777 and African American history is briefly address on this date. That year, the turning point of America’s Revolutionary War occurred with victory over the British at Saratoga. In response the Continental Congress then delivered a decree for the 13 colonies to give thanks. Black slaves also took part in the celebration throughout the […]
learn morePlaywrite, Author, and Artistic Director Carlyle Brown shares a personal example of generational intersectionality and why he admires his grandmother
learn moreCharles Blockson, historian, eudcator and collector shares what the current American Black Family could add to one another
learn more*On this date in 1974, Australopithecus afarensis or AL 288-1, was discovered in Ethiopia. This was several hundred pieces of bone fossils representing 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species. In Ethiopia, the assembly is known as Dinkinesh, which means “you are marvelous” in the Amharic language. In western language the discovery is known as […]
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