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Nat Turner's uprising in August 1831 shook white folks across the country, and especially this Connecticut town, where the first HBCU would've been. So what exactly stopped it?

The HBCU America Was Too Afraid to Build Today, we know that the first HBCU, Pennsylvania’s Cheyney University, opened in 1837. But just a few years earlier, this HBCU was shuttered b...

Historically, July 4, 1776, is associated with American freedom, but what about the 450,000 enslaved Black people? Should they have celebrated the independence that their oppressors had gained?

Why July 5th Is One Of The Blackest Days Of The Year It was 1852, and the free Black people who lived in New York gathered after a Fourth of July celebration. But there was a problem they couldn’t let rest.

For centuries, we’ve heard the anti-Black lies that our people are “savages.” It was Europeans’ favorite way to justify colonization and slavery. But who were the real savages all that time?

The Horrifying Mystery Of Egypt’s Missing Mummies Centuries-old anti-Black narratives generated by a society built on coloniality have painted Black people as savage, and used them to justify slavery. But look at the empty Egyptian pyramids and ask yourself who the real savages are....