In the late 18th century, when enslaved Africans in America were forbidden to gather without white supervision, Andrew Bryan defied the law to preach the gospel. For daring to do so, he was brutally whipped and imprisoned, yet he...
In the early 1800s, deep in the American South where slavery and superstition ruled side by side, an enslaved man named Jack Macon became a legend. Known across Tennessee as “Doctor Jack,” he was no ordinary slave. Though legally...
Rosa Lee Ingram was a widowed African American mother of twelve children and a hardworking sharecropper who lived in the deep South during one of the harshest times for Black women in America. In the 1940s, her name became...
In February 1766, the Indian Ocean became the stage of one of the most remarkable revolts in the history of the transoceanic slave trade. Aboard the Dutch slave ship Meermin, Malagasy captives rose against their Dutch enslavers in a...
In the early 19th century, religion often stood at the center of every moral debate in America, and slavery was no exception. While countless ministers preached freedom, love, and equality in the eyes of God, others used the scripture...
Before the world saw Nazi Germany turn racism into law, many Germans were already being entertained by it. In the years after Hitler came to power, a traveling show called the German Africa Show (Deutsche Afrika-Schau) toured across the...
On November 16, 1900, a crowd of over three hundred white men gathered near Limon, Colorado, to watch a horrifying spectacle. A 15-year-old Black boy named Preston John Porter Jr. was chained to a steel rail and burned alive....
Andrew Jackson Beard was an African American inventor whose brilliance shone despite being born into a world that denied him education. A self-taught genius, Beard created life-saving innovations in agriculture and railroad engineering, leaving behind a legacy that still...
In an era when many pastors stood on the fence, or worse, used the Bible to justify slavery with verses like “Slaves, obey your masters as you would Jesus”, one man chose to defy both his peers and the...
Saint Frances Academy was founded in 1828 by Mary Elizabeth Lange, later known as Mother Mary Lange, at a time when educating Black people was frowned upon. It stands today as the first and oldest continually operating Black Catholic...
