History

Sarah Rector was an African American member of the Muscogee Nation, best known for being the "Richest Colored Girl in the world" or the "Millionaire girl a member of the race". Born as the daughter of freedmen in 1902, Sarah...

A 3,000-year-old sculpture of Tutankhamun was yesterday auctioned off by UK-based Christie's auction house for nearly $6 million, despite Cairo calling on the UK government to stop the sale. Egypt claimed the relic was illegally taken from the country. UK-based...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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...

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...