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No Compensation for African WWII Veterans Who Were Paid Less than White Peers, UK Concludes

Black African veterans who fought for Britain in the second world war and were paid much less than their white counterparts would not be getting compensation from the British government.. UK Defense Minister Tobias Ellwood, in a private letter...

Former Runaway Slave and First African-American Priest, on Path to Becoming First Black American Saint

Pope Francis on Wednesday put Father Augustine Tolton, a former runaway slave and the first African American priest in the United States, on the path to sainthood. The Vatican said Francis approved a decree recognizing Tolton’s “heroic virtues,” an early...

On This Day in 1964: Nelson Mandela was Sentenced to Life Imprisonment

Forty-four years ago, on June 12, 1964, former South African president Nelson Mandela and seven of his comrades were jailed for life after being found guilty of sabotaging and planning a violent revolution against the apartheid government in the...

All-girls Robotics Team From Ghana Wins World Robofest Championship in the U.S.

Ghana presented an all-girls robotics team for the senior division of the World Robofest Championship in the United States and they won the topmost position by beating teams from the United States, Mexico, Egypt, South Korea and dozens of...

Grand Mosque of Algiers: China Builds Africa’s Largest Mosque Worth $2 billion in Algeria

The King Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco will no longer be the largest mosque in Africa, as a new billion-dollar mega-mosque with the world’s tallest minaret is nearing completion in the capital city of Algiers, Algeria. After almost a...

The World’s Smallest Church is in Uganda and it Only Accommodates Three

The chapel has no known or given name yet but it’s popularly known as the Chapel on Biku Hill. Established in 1996, it was founded by now-retired Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, His Lordship Henry Luke Orombi in...

On This Day – February 20 1978: Fela Anikulapo Kuti Married 27 Women

On February 20, 1978 African music legend and Afrobeat creator Fela Anikulapo Kuti married 27 women on the same day all of whom were his back up dancers. History has it that Fela was able to pull off the feat...

Black History Month: 5 Amazing Black Women in History You Really Should Know About

The month of February is a month set aside to teach history as it relates specifically to African Americans, their impact on sociopolitical events, and their contributions to society as a whole. Every black person knows about Dr. Martin...

The Untold Story of The Schoolgirls Who Warned of Rwanda’s Genocide

Over the course of the 1980s, the Virgin Mary appeared to three young women in a Small village 'Kibeho' in Rwanda, identifying herself as "Mother of the Word", The teenaged seers reported that the Virgin asked everyone to pray...

The Major Role The Church Played In The Enslavement of Black Africans

The Church had enjoyed 1,500 years during which it had had the power to ban slavery but had failed to do so, or even to have expressed any desire to do so. (The Anglican Church's missionary organisation , the...
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South Carolina Negro Act of 1740: The Code that Prohibited Enslaved Africans from Learning to Read

Passed by the South Carolina Assembly on the 10th of May, 1740, the Negro Act was a comprehensive set...
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