Damn, that's a GOAT level frat. 
It's Black History Month in HL brehs....
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Dr. Joyce Yerwood, community leader, physician and inspiration
Dr. Joyce Yerwood was the founder of the city's first black community center, which today bears her name.
27 years ago
Oct. 2, 1987: Dr. Joyce Yerwood, who nurtured the sick for 42 years and administered an enduring dose of inspiration to Stamford's black community, died in her Old Greenwich home at the age of 78.
Yerwood, a family doctor, was Fairfield County's first black woman physician.
Her most visible contribution to the city was her role in founding the community center that would bear her name.
According to friends, the story of the Yerwood Center started with a child's statement. While talking to a group of children shortly before starting her practice, one of them said to her, "You're a colored doctor. I never knew that a colored woman could be a doctor."
Yerwood, her friends said, then realized that black people in the community needed someone to make them aware of how much they could accomplish. In essence, she began a second practice, serving as teacher and role model for generations of Stamford children.
Born in Texas, Yerwood graduated from Meharry Medical College in Tennesse and then moved to Stamford with her husband, Dr. Joseph L. Carwin, a community leader for whom Carwin Park is named.
Dr. Joyce Yerwood was the founder of the city's first black community center, which today bears her name.
27 years ago
Oct. 2, 1987: Dr. Joyce Yerwood, who nurtured the sick for 42 years and administered an enduring dose of inspiration to Stamford's black community, died in her Old Greenwich home at the age of 78.
Yerwood, a family doctor, was Fairfield County's first black woman physician.
Her most visible contribution to the city was her role in founding the community center that would bear her name.
According to friends, the story of the Yerwood Center started with a child's statement. While talking to a group of children shortly before starting her practice, one of them said to her, "You're a colored doctor. I never knew that a colored woman could be a doctor."
Yerwood, her friends said, then realized that black people in the community needed someone to make them aware of how much they could accomplish. In essence, she began a second practice, serving as teacher and role model for generations of Stamford children.
Born in Texas, Yerwood graduated from Meharry Medical College in Tennesse and then moved to Stamford with her husband, Dr. Joseph L. Carwin, a community leader for whom Carwin Park is named.
Dope. I would love to see these kind of things covered more.Kanem-Bornu Empire
One of our greatest empires imo. traded with everybody in Africa, traded with the Turks and Europe. first Africans to get guns
If you into ancient-middle ages era African history like me I can recommend the Kingdoms of Africa series:
These last few pages.... I'm going to have to re read some of this shyt.ummm when was that child prodigy shyt published??
What I mean to say is... how old is Rochelle Ballantyne
ITS not just Ethiopian history.I don't know enough about the Nubian kings/queens. I feel like they are a huge missing link from Ethiopian history.
Mods keep this thread up all year because Black History is forever brehs. Enjoyed the history posted by the brehs excellent.
yeah bruv I'm up on that series. hopefully in the next 5 years or so african historians will start publishing more materialEDIT: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/dialogue/general-history-of-africa/volumes/
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mawds be lookin at this post like damn give these niccas an inch they want a mile. can't they just be happy with havin the shortest month damn
. 28 days of this was just too long.
Ivory Bangled Lady
Analysis of Roman grave reveals that York was a multicultural society
Steve Bird
Archaeologists have discovered that wealthy black Africans lived in Roman Britain in one of the country’s earliest examples of multiculturalism.
Scientific research techniques have established that a lavish grave containing a woman’s skeleton, an ivory bangle, perfume bottle, mirror and jewellery, belonged to a North African member of York’s high society in the 4th century.
Scientific analysis of isotopes from the teeth revealed that water she drank during her childhood had contained minerals likely to have been found in North Africa. Skull measurements have also established that the “Ivory Bangle Lady” was black or of mixed race.
Her sarcophagus, which was made of stone, a sign of immense wealth in Roman Britain, was discovered in 1901 in Bootham, York. The city was then a legionary fortress and civilian settlement called Eboracum, founded by the Romans in AD71.
Her well-preserved remains showed that she was 1.5m (5ft 1in) and aged between 18 and 23. There were no signs of a violent death, and muscle markings showed that she had not lived a strenuous life, suggesting that she was affluent. Among the goods found in her grave was a bone with the inscription “Sor ave vivas in Deo” (Hail, sister, may you live in God), suggesting that she may also have been a Christian.
A bracelet of jet, probably from Whitby, North Yorkshire, showed that she had access to local trade networks. Researchers from the University of Reading’s department of archaeology believe that the ivory bangle, an artefact rarely found in Roman Britain, may have been kept by the woman as a memento of home.
Hella Eckardt, who carried out the study, said: “Multicultural Britain is not just a phenomenon of more modern times. Analysis of the ‘Ivory Bangle Lady’ and others like her, contradicts assumptions about the make-up of Roman-British populations as well as the view that African immigrants were of low status, male and likely to have been slaves.”
She said that “Ivory Bangle Lady” was very wealthy — “absolutely from the top end of York society”.
“The link between slavery and Africans is an early modern one. In the Roman world this simply was not the case. Slaves in Roman times could come from any area.”
She added that inscriptions from that period showed that African people were most often members of the imperialist power’s army. But the latest research on a series of skeletons showed that African men had immigrated to Britain, invariably with the Roman Army, and had brought their wives and children.
Dr Eckardt continued: “We’re looking at a population mix which is much closer to contemporary Britain than previous historians had suspected. In the case of York, the Roman population may have had more diverse origins than the city has now.
“This skull is particularly interesting, because the stone sarcophagus she was buried in, and the richness of the grave goods, means she was a very wealthy woman.”
The research, A Lady of York; migration, ethnicity and identity in Roman Britain, is published in the March edition of the journal Antiquity. The “Ivory Bangle Lady” will be the centrepiece of an exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum in August entitled Roman York: Meet the People of the Empire.
Analysis of Roman grave reveals that York was a multicultural society
Steve Bird
Archaeologists have discovered that wealthy black Africans lived in Roman Britain in one of the country’s earliest examples of multiculturalism.
Scientific research techniques have established that a lavish grave containing a woman’s skeleton, an ivory bangle, perfume bottle, mirror and jewellery, belonged to a North African member of York’s high society in the 4th century.
Scientific analysis of isotopes from the teeth revealed that water she drank during her childhood had contained minerals likely to have been found in North Africa. Skull measurements have also established that the “Ivory Bangle Lady” was black or of mixed race.
Her sarcophagus, which was made of stone, a sign of immense wealth in Roman Britain, was discovered in 1901 in Bootham, York. The city was then a legionary fortress and civilian settlement called Eboracum, founded by the Romans in AD71.
Her well-preserved remains showed that she was 1.5m (5ft 1in) and aged between 18 and 23. There were no signs of a violent death, and muscle markings showed that she had not lived a strenuous life, suggesting that she was affluent. Among the goods found in her grave was a bone with the inscription “Sor ave vivas in Deo” (Hail, sister, may you live in God), suggesting that she may also have been a Christian.
A bracelet of jet, probably from Whitby, North Yorkshire, showed that she had access to local trade networks. Researchers from the University of Reading’s department of archaeology believe that the ivory bangle, an artefact rarely found in Roman Britain, may have been kept by the woman as a memento of home.
Hella Eckardt, who carried out the study, said: “Multicultural Britain is not just a phenomenon of more modern times. Analysis of the ‘Ivory Bangle Lady’ and others like her, contradicts assumptions about the make-up of Roman-British populations as well as the view that African immigrants were of low status, male and likely to have been slaves.”
She said that “Ivory Bangle Lady” was very wealthy — “absolutely from the top end of York society”.
“The link between slavery and Africans is an early modern one. In the Roman world this simply was not the case. Slaves in Roman times could come from any area.”
She added that inscriptions from that period showed that African people were most often members of the imperialist power’s army. But the latest research on a series of skeletons showed that African men had immigrated to Britain, invariably with the Roman Army, and had brought their wives and children.
Dr Eckardt continued: “We’re looking at a population mix which is much closer to contemporary Britain than previous historians had suspected. In the case of York, the Roman population may have had more diverse origins than the city has now.
“This skull is particularly interesting, because the stone sarcophagus she was buried in, and the richness of the grave goods, means she was a very wealthy woman.”
The research, A Lady of York; migration, ethnicity and identity in Roman Britain, is published in the March edition of the journal Antiquity. The “Ivory Bangle Lady” will be the centrepiece of an exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum in August entitled Roman York: Meet the People of the Empire.