Following a trip to Haiti in September alongside Iranian-American venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar, rapper and fashion designer Kanye West revealed the president of the Caribbean island has given them a portion of Tortuga/Turtle Island to develop into a “city of the future.” Touching on the subject during an interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast Read More…
Month: November 2020
Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala opposed by United States for WTO top job
The United States says it is not backing former Nigeria finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to be the next Director-General of the World Trade Organization. America’s opposition to her candidature comes after the three WTO ambassadors charged with the task of finding the next WTO chief settled on the Nigerian, Reuters has reported. The choice of Read More…
Rihanna, the world’s richest female musician, built a $600 million net worth
Robyn Rihanna Fenty, 32, was recently certified by Forbes as the richest female musician in the world. Her fortune adds up to $600 million, ahead of the likes of Madonna ($570 million), Céline Dion ($450 million) and Beyoncé ($400 million). This year, she debuted on Forbes’ list of richest self-made women in America. The list, Read More…
From slave to architect, meet the South Carolina man who built America’s biggest bridges in the 1800s
Horace King had all the odds against him as he was born into slavery on a South Carolina plantation. He, nevertheless, rose to become a prolific architect and the most respected bridge builder in west Georgia, Alabama, and northeast Mississippi from the 1830s until the 1880s. King built a number of massive bridges, industrial facilities, Read More…
Amina, one of few warrior queens who ruled an African kingdom
One of the greatest warriors ever to emerge from Africa in the sixteenth century was Queen Amina of Zazzau. Like the great Nzingha of Angola, Queen Amina’s leadership skills were discovered early by her grandfather who allowed her to attend state meetings. Her mother, the Queen Bakwa of Turunku, an influential political figure in Amina’s Read More…
Jessica Hyatt : Brooklyn 15-year-old chess champion
Chess, to Jessica Hyatt’s mom, was a hobby but to the 15-year-old from Brooklyn, it was a passion, and now that passion is paying off. Hyatt was presented with the Daniel Feinberg Success in Chess Award in a virtual ceremony on October 13, an award that comes with a $40,000 in college scholarship. The award Read More…
Georgia counties elect the first Black sheriffs in their history
Three counties in Atlanta are going to have the first Black sheriffs in their respective history after the three men, who are all Democrats, were elected to fill the seats during Tuesday’s election. According to Channel 2 Action News, Craig Owens, a police major, defeated long-time Cobb County Republican Sheriff Neil Warren whilst electorates in Read More…
Powerful Harris: America’s first Black & first woman vice president-elect
For two decades in public life, powerful Harris has achieved a lot of firsts: the first Black woman to serve as San Francisco’s district attorney, the first woman to be California’s attorney general, first Indian American senator, and now she will be working by Biden’s side after he named her for the nomination to the Read More…
Did You Know: The last and only black queen of Hawaii was overthrown by the U.S.
The question of whether or not the original natives of Hawaii are truly of African descent has remained one of the biggest puzzles ever. Although their skin, hair and way of life prove that they were of African descent, scholars have one way or the other refused to dig into their history to provide clear Read More…
Andamanese: The almost extinct dark-skinnedpeople of India
They were also called the ‘Negritos’ The Andamanese are comprised of the five large tribes mentioned above; the Great Andamanese on Strait Island are speculated to be 50 in number, the Jarawa of the Jarawas of the Great Andaman archipelago, the Jangil of Rutland Island, the Onge of Little Andaman, and the Sentinelese of North Read More…