In the following account University of Pittsburgh historian George Reid Andrews provides an introduction to the history of the population of African ancestry in Uruguay. When we think of the great nations of the African diaspora—Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, the United States—the South American republic of … Read More … Read MoreAfro-Uruguay: A Brief History
In a speech before the Scandinavian Institute for African Affairs, Uppsala, Sweden, in December, 1972, Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, then the Chief Executive Officer of the KwaZulu Territorial Authority, describes his cooperation with South African leaders despite his opposition to the country’s apartheid system. The speech … Read More … Read More(1972) M. Gatsha Buthelezi, “My Role Within Separate Development Politics”
[vc_row equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”49371″][vc_custom_heading text=”Welcome to BlackPast” font_container=”tag:h1|font_size:50|text_align:left”][vc_column_text]BlackPast is dedicated to providing reliable information on the history of Black people across the globe, and especially in North America. Our goal is to promote greater understanding of our common human experience through knowledge of the diversity of … Read More … Read MoreWelcome to Blackpast
In the article below University of Washington School of Public Health Professor Clarence Spigner challenges us to take a more nuanced look at the often-dismissed 1970s genre of so-called Blaxploitation films. During the 1970s, critics of Hollywood cinema gave birth to “Blaxploitation,” a conflation of … Read More … Read MoreBlaxploitation Reexamined: One Critic’s Reinterpretation
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] BlackPast.org, Remembered and Reclaimed: An Online Reference Center for African American History Developed by Dr. Quintard Taylor and Associates 501(c)(3) Status Achieved March 28, 2008 BlackPast.org (www.blackpast.org), founded on February 1, 2007, is broadly conceived to provide reference information on people of African ancestry … Read More … Read MoreBlackPast.org Fact Sheet
James Amos Porter was the first African American art historian. Born on December 22, 1905 in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the son of Lydia and John Porter, a prominent minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Porter graduated cum laude in 1927 with a Bachelor of Science in art from Howard University. … Read More … Read MoreJames Amos Porter (1905-1970)
In 1990 the South African government released Nelson Mandela from Victor Verster Prison in Paarl, South Africa after more than 28 years of incarceration including more than 20 years in South Africa’s most notorious prison, Robben Island. Here is the speech he gave in Cape … Read More … Read More(1990) Nelson Mandela, “We Have Waited Too Long For Our Freedom”
In 1837, Houston, Texas was incorporated and divided into four wards. The Southeast ward was named Third Ward and over time this area became an important center of African American-owned businesses and a hub for black culture. Third Ward originally comprised the area east of … Read More … Read MoreThird Ward, Houston, Texas (1837- )
The Amistad Mutiny occurred on the Spanish schooner La Amistad on July 2, 1839. The incident began In February 1839 when Portuguese slave hunters illegally seized 53 Africans in Sierra Leone, a British colony, whom they intended to sell in the Spanish colony of Cuba. … Read More … Read MoreThe Amistad Mutiny, 1839
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”22276″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text] Teacher Strategies for Effectively Incorporating the Website into Everyday Instruction With over 10,000 pages of information, BlackPast.org is the single largest free and unrestricted resource on African American and African history on the Internet today. The articles and outlines below are … Read More … Read MoreUsing Blackpast.org in the Classroom
