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So I was driving home yesterday to visit my parents in the burbs and upon turning down one of the residential streets, I see an entourage of cars that looked like this. This is not uncommon in Chicago around this time of the year as it’s Puerto Rican Pride weekend and you will see Puerto...

Southern Europeans get a significant portion of their genetic ancestry from North Africa, new research suggests. The findings are perhaps not surprising, given that the Romans occupied North Africa and set up extensive trade routes in the region, and the Moors, a North African people, ruled a...

The world was tough before the 20th century:mjcry:

I tried weaving this in a thread earlier-- won't do that again. My mom's side descends from a freedman town in Oklahoma. and I'm trying to find any info on migration patterns. Or just useful info on freedman towns in general. It's hard because the earliest person I know is my grandma, and she...

Just got down reading American Civil War - Wikipedia and it just :mindblown: that the Union leaders just decided to either completely pardon them or imprisoned them for a few years except the manager who ran Andersonville Prison. That's insane that you went against the government and be...

100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars Back in 2010, we shared with you 100 awesome search engines and research resources in our post: 100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars. It’s been an incredible resource, but now, it’s time for an update. Some services have moved...

When Parisian Prisoners Were Offered Freedom if they Agreed to Marry Prostitutes and Move to Mississippi In 1719, John Law decided to offer prisoners in Paris something they could not refuse. He offered them their freedom as long as they were willing to marry a prostitute and head off to...

COMMUNITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE Five on the Black Hand Side: Origins and Evolutions of the Dap September 22, 2014 | LaMont Hamilton |Comments Five on the Black Hand Side is a project exploring gestural languages that were born in African American communities during the 1960s and 1970s, including the...

COMMUNITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE Five on the Black Hand Side: Origins and Evolutions of the Dap September 22, 2014 | LaMont Hamilton |Comments Five on the Black Hand Side is a project exploring gestural languages that were born in African American communities during the 1960s and 1970s, including the...

Anyone have suggestions? I want to learn more about West African history.

I also posted the thread in the Locker Room to see whether or not it's more interesting to post these kinds of thread here or there. I'm also collecting information about the Ancient Egyptian origins of the Wolof people. I'll do a thread about that too.

Another banger from HomeTeam History.

To whom it may concern, :francis:I'm at an impasse breh I like the idea of marketing/finance/being a businessman, but I don't LOVE it. Since I was a little boy, I've had a raving thirst for geography/history. Going back to age 5, I was reading social studies textbooks, maps, encyclopedias &...

Years upon Years Upon Years ago, Before Drake, Before whatsapp and phones you could watch netflix on, before the social media blow-up...shyte before Facebook even, there were social gathering based websites like Black Planet, Asian Avenue etc. The Toronto social scene had a unique site called...

pretty funny actually

Aretha Franklin reflects on dad's role in freedom walk

A breh here has a thread on books other black folk should read (or was it their children should read? :jbhmm:). I don't remember if these books in the article are part of the list. But brehs and brehhettes with kids in school are these books on your reading list? If you have already read them...

The Senate’s Three Black Members Introduce Bill to Finally Make Lynching a Federal Crime :wtf: How isn't one already? Though this bill is necessary, as I alluded to, this should have been done decades ago. The cynic in me gets the feeling that this might be for Presidential nominee attention...