You may also like
Royal African Company
Chartered in 1672, the Royal African Company was a royally chartered company which had a legally based monopoly on English trade to West Africa until 1698. The monopoly specifically extended through five thousand miles of the western coast from Cape Sallee (in contemporary Morocco) to the Cape of
Read more
Source: Black Past
Nelson Mandela
Name at birth: Rolihlahla Mandela
Read more
Source: Fact Monster - Black History
Arthur Ashe is born
Arthur Ashe, Born July 10, 1943 in
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Jul
10
1943
Morocco Independence
Morocco becomes Independent. Morocco as an independent state has been in existence since 788 AD, when Idris I was proclaimed King at Volubilis. Today, Morocco is a constitutional monarchy. King Hassan II came to the throne in 1961. A descendant of the Prophet, he is also the commander of the
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Mar
2
1956
Botswana
President: Ian Khama
Read more
Source: Fact Monster - Black History
Thomas, Clarence (1948- )
Clarence Thomas, the second African American to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, was born in Pin Point, Georgia, a small community south of Savannah.  His mother, Leola Williams, a single parent, raised Thomas until he was seven.  He and his brother, Myers, were sent to Savannah where they were
Read more
Source: Black Past
(1968) Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
The following speech, a sermon Dr. Martin Luther King gave at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3, 1968, was the last public appearance before his assassination the next day.  King, in Memphis to support a strike by garbage workers, gives a poignant vision of the victorious future of the
Read more
Source: Black Past
Apr
3
1968
Niger
National name: République du Niger
Read more
Source: Fact Monster - Black History
Malawi 0
Current government officials
Read more
Source: Fact Monster - Black History
Libya
On Sept. 11, 2012, militants armed with anti-aircraft weapons and rocket-propelled grenades fired on the American consulate in Benghazi, killing U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other embassy officials. Stevens was a widely praised diplomat and an advocate for the opposition
Read more
Source: Fact Monster - Black History
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected St
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
May
10
1994
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe zim´bäbwā [key], formerly Rhodesia, officially Republic of Zimbabwe, republic (2005 est. pop. 12,747,000), 150,803 sq mi (390,580 sq km), S central Africa. It is bordered on the north by Zambia, on the northeast and east by Mozambique, on the south by South Africa, and on the southwest
Read more
Source: Fact Monster - Black History
Windhoek, Namibia (1840- )
Windhoek, also known by its more traditional names—|Ai||Gams (in the Khoekhoe language) and Otjiomuise or Otjoherero, all of which mean “place by streams”—is the capital and largest city of Namibia, as well as its cultural and economic center.  Though likely named for the mountain
Read more
Source: Black Past
Angola
National name: Republica de Angola
Read more
Source: Fact Monster - Black History
Nelson Mandela is released
Nelson Mandelas greatest pleasure, his most private moment, is watching the sun set with the music of Handel or Tchaikovsky
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Sponsored by Museum of African American History in Massachusetts
Feb
11
1990
Sierra leone
Current government officials
Read more
Source: Fact Monster - Black History
Islam in Africa
Islam in Africa, the development of the Muslim religion on the African
Read more
Source: Fact Monster - Black History
Bethel Baptist Institutional Church of Jacksonville, Florida (ca. 1865- )
Bethel Baptist Institutional Church is the oldest Baptist church congregation in the state of Florida.  At the end of the Civil War, Bethel Baptist Church was recognized by the court in Jacksonville to be a black church, but the history of this church extends well beyond the 1860s to the 1830s and
Read more
Source: Black Past
Sponsored by Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies
Greece and Egypt: How a Single Coin Reflects an Ancient and Enduring Relationship
A tiny object can rewrite history.  In this case, the small electrum coin featuring the head of an African pictured here reveals a fascinating link between Africa and Greece from antiquity to the present.  Unfortunately we know very little about the coin itself except that it is from the early
Read more
Source: Black Past
Morocco
Morocco | FactMonster
Read more
Source: Fact Monster - Black History
Sponsored by Pride Academy
Zhou Enlai's African "Safari" (1963-1964)
Zhou Enlai’s first tour of Africa, popularly known as Zhou’s “Safari,” was a series of state visits to ten independent African countries, undertaken between December 1963 and February 1964 by the Chinese Premier. These visits, which occurred during a period when many countries were
Read more
Source: Black Past
Young, Andrew (1932 - )
Andrew Young, Jr., came into prominence as a civil rights activist and close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during the modern civil rights movement in the United States.  Young worked with various organizations early in the movement, but his civil rights work was largely done with the
Read more
Source: Black Past
Mar
12
1932
Todman, Terence A. (1926-2014)
Named Career Ambassador, a title equivalent to a four-star general, U.S. ambassador to six different countries, Terence A. Todman was an outstanding diplomat in the service of the United States. He challenged the racial prejudice he encountered at the State Department, paving the way for hiring of
Read more
Source: Black Past
Sponsored by National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) Boston Professional Chapter
Aug
13
2014
South Africa banned from Olympic Games
South Africa was banned from the Olympic Games because of its apartheid policies.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Aug
18
1964
Sam Cooke - Change is Gonna Come - Anfiteatro (Argentina) Cover by Alex Serra
My dream is to never stop creating Art that
Read more
Source: Black Inventors
Annan, Kofi A. (1938-- )
Kofi Atta Annan, born on 8 April 1938 in Kumasi, Ghana, served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) between 1997 and 2007.  As a young man, Annan finished his undergraduate studies in economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1961.  He then completed his
Read more
Source: Black Past
Jan
1
1997
Cornel West
Cornel West is an American philosopher, activist, academic and intellectual; he is also the first African-American to have graduated from Princeton University with a PhD in
Read more
Source: Black History Resources
Jun
2
1963
Zambia
Republic of Zambia
Read more
Source: Fact Monster - Black History
A Quena woman was shown in Europe as a circus
A Quena woman was shown in Europe as a circus
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Jan
0
1815
Myrick, Bismarck (1940- )
Bismarck Myrick is a retired United States Ambassador to Lesotho from 1995 to 1998 and the Republic of Liberia from 1999 to 2002. Originally from Portsmouth, Virginia, Myrick has held multiple positions with the U.S. government over a number of
Read more
Source: Black Past
Sponsored by Pride Academy
More from Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
Malawi: collision between a boat and a hippopotamus, 1 dead and 23 missing | Africanews
Morocco unveils hydrogen vehicle prototype HUV | Africanews
Egyptian luxury brands look to the past as they carve a place in the sun | Africanews
Tunisia: Ennahdha denounces a "political verdict" against the opponent Ghannouchi | Africanews
DRC: Call for provisional release of former Tshisekedi adviser | Africanews
Sudan: UN estimates aid needs at over $3 billion | Africanews
Egyptian and Qatari medical aid arrives in Port Sudan | Africanews
Kenyan world record holder Kipruto provisionally suspended | Africanews
Libya’s east-based parliament votes to suspend PM | Africanews
Actor Forest Whitaker unveils a training centre for his NGO near Paris | Africanews
Kenya's Ruto attends 3rd Pan-African Parliamentarians Summit | Africanews
Evangelist rapper KS Bloom is a hit in Ivory Coast | Africanews
Nigeria: at least 30 killed in herder-farmer clashes | Africanews
Pro-army supporters want UN envoy to Sudan 'out' | Africanews
South Africa: load shedding will intensify in winter | Africanews
Sonko trial: school suspended in southern Senegal | Africanews
South African town forced to reduce solar energy production | Africanews
French army in spotlight over journalist's abduction in northern Mali in 2021 | Africanews
Tunisian president Saied meets religious leaders | Africanews
IMF approves $3bn loan to Ghana | Africanews
Tanzania: Traders in country's largest market on strike over new tax | Africanews
Guinea's junta requisitions army in face of protests, threatens to apply anti-terrorism law | Africanews
Anti-migration operation in Mayotte stirs tensions, exposes inequalities | Africanews
Kenya: Shakahola massacre death toll rises to 226 | Africanews
Sierra Leone: President Julius Bio urges end to Ukraine war for 'sake of humanity' | Africanews
Nigeria's doctors stage 5-day walk out | Africanews
Kenya: 27 officials suspended on suspicion of diverting contaminated sugar | Africanews
Death toll up to 7 after hippo capsized canoe in Malawi; 17 missing | Africanews
Cleanup of oil-polluted Nigerian state would cost $12 bn: report | Africanews
Uganda's FM urges Moscow to consider plight of African nations over Ukraine grain deal | Africanews
Can Africa succeed in green industrialisation? | Africanews
Africa’s Cannes moment explained by Malian film director | Africanews
African women included in jury at Cannes | Africanews
African peace delegation to visit Russia in June or July: Moscow | Africanews
Nigeria police press conference on deadly US convoy attack | Africanews
Tunisian journalists protest anti-terror laws | Africanews
Zimbabwe: A fleet of Russian helicopters for disaster management, policing | Africanews
Thousands displaced as death toll climbs in central Nigeria clashes | Africanews
Guinea: press associations accuse the junta of censorship | Africanews
Blind football offers new hope in South Sudan | Africanews
Kenya: LGBTQ+ refugees face serious human rights violations, says Amnesty | Africanews
The UN warns of the risk of famine in the northeast of Nigeria | Africanews
Burkina: at least 20 dead in 2 suspected jihadist attacks | Africanews
Syria's Assad attends first Arab league summit in 12 years, meets with African leaders | Africanews
South African child prodigy's reading skills makes waves on TikTok | Africanews
Kenyans brace for higher taxes as new finance bill targets petrol, beauty products | Africanews
Unlocking Africa's debt solutions: experts champion investment in its digital economy | Africanews
South Africa: Ex-Convicts face joblessness | Africanews
U17 AFCON: Morocco, Senegal eye first continental trophy | Africanews
Malawi authorities arrest more than 400 refugees | Africanews

Black Sands Ultimate Edition Hardcover Release!

Sports Facts

Science Facts