African american mothers

The debut of a major new talent, SAPPHIRE'S GRAVE tells the stories of several generations of African-American women, bringing their spirit and their sorrow to life with a power, sensitivity, and immediacy. In 1749 in Sierra Leone, a woman of fierce dignity is captured and forced onto a slave ship. On the harrowing voyage to the Americas, she is beaten for her unrelenting will and staunch pride. When she arrives, she gives birth to a daughter who is called Sapphire because of the…

Gertrude Pridgett, who was one of the earliest African-American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of blues singers to record was professionally known as Ma Rainey. She was well recognized for her powerful vocal abilities, energetic disposition, majestic phrasing, and a "moaning" style of singing. She began performing as a teenager and became known as "Ma" Rainey after her marriage to Will "Pa" Rainey, in 1904. The "Mother of the Blues" was among the first singers to…

February 23, 2015 This essay started innocently enough. I read and shared a Facebook post declaring that President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s mother was mulatto. Which, in our racially driven American …

Malcolm X once stated “Aborigine. Which means what? Black Folks.” Then he later went on to say “You and I are Aborigine.” Malcolm X stated that the rock landed on us after h…

AFRICANGLOBE – This little known story has met a just conclusion, as Sophia Stewart, African American author of The Matrix will finally receive her just due from the copyright infringement of her original work!!! A six-year dispute has ended involving Sophia Stewart, the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and Warner Brothers. Stewart’s allegations, involving copyright infringement and […]

Mother Laura Adorkor Kofi was assassinated on March 28, 1928, in Miami.

Born in the pre-Civil War South to a mother who was free and a father who was enslaved, George Edwin Taylor would become the first African American selected by a political party to be its candidate for the presidency of the United States.

Conjure Doctors Roots and Remedies, Spiritual Mothers, Conjure Women

The murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was seen as America’s last hope for racial harmony, is highly remembered as one of the most tragic events in history. His assassination sparked days of rebellion all over the nation and left several American cities in smoking ruins. Yet, the murder of the woman who...