New exhibition about Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at the Yorkshire Museum
Septimius Severus was the first Roman Emperor born in Africa. He ruled between AD 193 and 211. Although his family was of Phoenician rather than black African descent, ancient literary sources refer to the dark colour of his skin and relate that he kept his African accent into old age.
However, there are many other prominent Black Romans; Lucius Quietus, a famous Berber Calvary commander who is immortalized on Trajans column depicting the conquest of Dacia (modern day Romania). Quietus was not only one of the most effective Generals of his day, he was also Roman governor of Judea, suppressing the last uprising of Jews before the emperor Hadrian expelled the Jews from Judea. It has been speculated that Quietus was killed by a jealous Hadrian, who envied and feared his popularity amongst the army.
Tertullian, a brilliant writer and the first to organize a succinct corpus of early Christian beliefs. There is also Augustine, guy who wrote a little book called City of God, which became the founding and guiding principle of Christian intellectual thought following the fall of Rome.
St. Maurice, a prominent Christian Calvary commander who was martyred rather than carry out the execution of Christians in the 3rd Century. You may know him as St. Maurice, the patron saint of armies, infantryman and battles.
There are many examples of blacks doing well in ancient Rome, indeed of contributing black excellence to the Ancient Empire. Y all should brush up on antiquity more.
As a final parting shot, white supremacists are fond of arguing that mongerlizarion, race mixing destroyed the old Empire. But any actual reading of history reveals this to be a farce: some of Rome's most prominent and important emperors were born outside of the City, indeed of the Italian peninsula. When the Julio Flavian dynasty fell (the direct descendants of Augustus Ceasar) and less and less Romans opted for the harsh discipline of the Army, it was men from the provinces, the mongrels and non pure blooded Romans who carried the banner. During the third Century Age of Crisis in which the Empire was invaded by Germanic barbarians from the West and a resurgent Persian Empire from the East, it was men from the Balkans, Syria and North Africa which shepherded the Empire through its long emergency. The last effective Roman General, Aetius, was a Romanized German. White supremacists also conveniently ignore the fact that it was Western Germanic tribal invasions that finally brought down the Empire.
don't quote me or reply in my thread no more...out the door you go 
east Africans like Ethiopians and Somalians aren't black? 
fifth column ass nikkas...
face.
and he was a breh 
even though it's documented that Arab slave traders was getting slaves as far south as Tanzania starting as early as the 9th century? 
or at least by that time they were already whitewashed...