Adolphe Duperly’s painting depicting the destruction of the Roehampton Estate in Jamaica during the Baptist War in January 1832. Wikimedia Commons
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Shavon Arline-Bradley, CEO President (Photo Credit: ncnwdetroit.org).
National Council of Negro Women President Rev. Shavon Arline-Bradley was recently tapped to join President Joe Biden’s delegation...
Queen Nzingha of Angola
DECEMBER 11
1917—Thirteen Black soldiers were hanged for their participation in the so-called Houston riot. The “riot” had occurred in August of...
Three African-American women in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance in 1925
NOVEMBER 13
1839—The Liberty Party—the nation’s first anti-slavery political party—is formed in Warsaw, N.Y. Among...
SCOTTSBORO BOYS
OCTOBER 23
1775—The Continental Congress approves a resolution barring free Blacks from the army fighting for American independence from England. The resolution came...
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Talia Omotola, an 8th grader at Lincoln Middle School in Edwardsville, recently competed in the State Gymnastics Championship...
BILLY ECKSTINE
March 6
1857—Perhaps the most thoroughly racist decision ever rendered by a U.S. Supreme Court is released on this day—the Dred Scott decision....
