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03/19/2025

Big Chief, Black Hawk and the African origin of Mardi Gras Indians

03/19/2025

An enslaved African, Onesimus helped to save hundreds of Bostonians from smallpox in 1721. Left out of the history books, he taught others about the practice of inoculation, which was common in Africa and Asia long before vaccines were established.

📽️: /joshuadairen

03/12/2025

Founded in 1603 by Benkos BiohĂł, "San Basilio de Palenque" was the first free African town in the Americas.

02/27/2025

Chief Desmond Melancon of New Orleans showcases his "Jah Defender" Masking Suit at the International African American Museum in Charleston, SC.

The Mardi Gras Indians' tradition is part of the African diasporan decorative aesthetic, and is an African-American art form.

02/27/2025

Senegambian Dance Influence on New Orleans Bounce

02/23/2025

The "Sweet Trials":

A white mob attacked the home of Dr Ossian Sweets. He and his friends responded with armed self-defense. Dr Sweets, his wife, 2 brothers & 9 friends were arrested, charged with murder, & acquitted.

02/22/2025

“Since the dawn of history the negro has owned the continent of Africa–rich beyond the dream of poet’s fancy, crunching acres of diamonds beneath his bare black feet. Yet he never picked one up from the dust until a white man showed to him its glittering light.

His land swarmed with powerful and docile animals, yet he never dreamed a harness, cart, or sled. A hunter by necessity, he never made an axe, spear, or arrowhead worth preserving beyond the moment of its use. He lived as an ox, content to graze for an hour.

In a land of stone and timber he never sawed a foot of lumber, carved a block, or built a house save of broken sticks and mud. With league on league of ocean strand and miles of inland seas, for four thousand years he watched their surface ripple under the wind, heard the thunder of the surf on his beach, the howl of the storm over his head, gazed on the dim blue horizon calling him to worlds that lie beyond, and yet he never dreamed a sail!

He lived as his fathers lived–stole his food, worked his wife, sold his children, ate his brother, content to drink, sing, dance, and sport as the ape!”

The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Klu Klux Klan, Thomas F. Dixon Jr., 1905

02/21/2025

The Mastery of Benin Bronze-Wax Crafting & Artifacts

02/16/2025

"Enslaved people were often forbidden to mark their graves. The tradition of the face jug arose to honor a loved one's body and protect it from evil spirits."

jamescityhistory.org/face-jugs

02/07/2025

"Little Africa" embodied the black self-help ethic. The Parkland Improvement Club helped to add items such as cinder walks and mailboxes to the community. The town of "Little Africa" disappeared ca. 1948 when work began on the Cotter Homes Project, named for early resident, poet, and educator Joseph S. Cotter (1861-1949).

01/25/2025

ATRs (African Traditional Religions) & Cultural practices that survived & were remixed outside of Africa into "Afro-Diaspora Traditions".

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