by JoeMonica | Jul 6, 2010 | African American History, People
Political activist and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 24, 1954. Born Wesley Cook, he took the name Mumia (“Prince”) in high school while taking a class on African cultures. In 1971, he added Abu-Jamal (“father of Jamal”)...
by FateMichael | Jul 6, 2010 | African American History, People
Political activist Kathryn Magnolia Johnson was born on December 15, 1878 in Darke County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Walter and Lucinda Jane McCown Johnson. Kathryn Johnson graduated at the top of her high school class in New Paris, Ohio in 1895 and worked as a...
by FateMichael | Jul 6, 2010 | African American History, People
Callie House is most famous for her efforts to gain reparations for former slaves and is regarded as the early leader of the reparations movement among African American political activists. Callie Guy was born a slave in Rutherford County near Nashville, Tennessee....
by GiffinSusan | Jul 6, 2010 | Global African History, Places
Johannesburg is the largest city in South Africa. Before the 1837 arrival of the Transvaal Boers, descendants of Dutch settlers, the area that is now Johannesburg was occupied by the Sotho-Tswana peoples. In early 1886, gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand ridge....
by GiffinSusan | Jul 6, 2010 | Global African History, Places
Abidjan is the former capital of Côte d’Ivoire as well as the country’s principal city. The lagoon on which the city now sits was occupied by the Ebrié people long before the French selected the site of Abidjan in 1903. Intended as the terminus for a railroad to...
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