[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In 2020 BlackPast.org saw the largest number of deaths in a single year of people profiled on the website. Part of this was due to the COVID-19 pandemic but most people who died last year did not succumb to the disease. Some like George … Read More … Read MoreIN MEMORIAM: Those We Lost in 2020
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Listed below are African American and General genealogy websites that may be useful for those seeking to research personal or family history. African American Genealogy Resources: African-American Genealogy: 80 Top Resources for Finding Your African American Ancestor African American Family History Resources African Ancestry African … Read More … Read MoreBlackPast.org: The Genealogy Page
In their introduction to Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, co-editors Henry Louis Gates and Kwame Anthony Appiah describe W.E.B. Du Bois’s half century campaign to publish an encyclopedia that would encompass the African diaspora. That introduction appears below. Between 1909 … Read More … Read MoreW.E.B. Du Bois and the Making of the Encyclopedia Africana, 1909-1963
Originally established as The African Church, The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas was founded in 1792 by and for persons of African descent to foster personal and religious freedoms and self-determination. The original African Church was an outgrowth of the Free African Society, a … Read More … Read MoreAfrican Episcopal Church of St. Thomas Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1792- )
Zenzile Miriam Makeba, world renowned South African singer, was born in Johannesburg on March 4, 1932. She studied music for eight years at the Kilmerton Training Institute in Pretoria, South Africa and toured with amateur groups before beginning her professional career in 1954 with the … Read More … Read MoreMiriam Makeba (1932-2008)
In the following article, Collins Edigin, a historian at the University of Benin in Benin City, Nigeria, describes the rule of the Obas of Benin, a continuous dynasty of the West African state of Benin (now in present-day Nigeria) that began in the 13th Century … Read More … Read MoreThe Obas of Benin: A Brief History of the Rulers of A West African State for Eight Centuries
Paul Quinn College, founded by members of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Austin, Texas in 1872, is the oldest African-American liberal arts college in the state and one of the oldest west of the Mississippi River. The institution was named for Bishop Paul … Read More … Read MorePaul Quinn College (1872- )
The African Union (AU) is an alliance of 53 African states that aim to advance and integrate Africa as a continent. The Union was created on September 9, 1999 when the Sirte Declaration was put forward by the Organization of African Unity (OAU), which proposed … Read More … Read MoreAfrican Union (2002- )
In the essay below, Bruce L. Mouser, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, describes the conflicting goals of African Creoles, African Americans, and British and American colonizationists in the fate of the Rio Pongo Valley along the West Coast of Africa. … Read More … Read MoreAfricans, African Americans, Great Britain and the United States: The Curious History of the Rio Pongo in the Early 19th Century
