The traditional African roots of twerking [Videos]
WEBFeb 14, 2018 · The word was even added to the Oxford dictionary in 2015. Twerking may have gotten its name from the bounce craze of early 1990s New Orleans, but its origins are decidedly African. As Kelechi ...
The little-known story of how Haile Selassie became the symbol of …
WEBJul 25, 2019 · In a Jamaican church in 1920, Garvey is said to have uttered the often-quoted words, “Look to Africa when a black king shall be crowned, for the day of deliverance is at hand.”For this reason ...
How this enslaved man was made to serve as a breeder to …
WEBMar 18, 2021 · 95-year-old Lucille Burden Osborne said while growing up in a house that contained family members who had survived slavery, she heard stories about her great-grandfather, McGruder.
Mami Wata, the most celebrated mermaid-like deity from Africa …
WEBJul 20, 2018 · Mami Wata traces back to the earliest of African societies as recorded by the griots and keepers of history. The Dogon’s creation myth tells the stories of Mami Wata and traces records of its ...
The mysterious history and meanings of African tribal lip plates …
WEBNov 25, 2019 · Among the Mursi, when a young woman reaches the age of 15 or 16, her lower lip is cut and held open by a wooden plug until the wound heals. The healing process could take up to three months.
Settling the question of the Europe-conquering Moors - Were they ...
WEBDec 4, 2020 · In short, it is a little more effective for historical purposes to see the Moors as the Europeans saw them. They were the Islamized, darker-skinned peoples who were considered alien to Europe. The ...
10 Black historical figures who changed the World
WEBJul 6, 2023 · Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Martin Luther King, Kwame Nkrumah, Harriet Tubman, and Malcolm X, among other Black extraordinary leaders and individuals, have positively altered the course of ...
How cornrows were used as an escape map from slavery across …
WEBJun 5, 2018 · Enslaved Africans also used cornrows to transfer and create maps to leave plantations and the home of their captors. This act of using hair as a tool for resistance is said to have been evident ...
The real story of the last days of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
WEBAug 27, 2018 · Haile Selassie, born Ras Tafari Makonnen, was everything from monarch to the returned messiah as believed by the Rastafari movement which reveres him as God incarnate. He was also the Chairperson ...
The shocking history of enslavement of 1.5 million white …
WEBMay 30, 2018 · Historian Daniel Barker explains,. The context of the Barbary slave trade was a centuries-old Christian-Muslim feud in which both sides’ behavior toward each other was pretty ghastly.
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