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The Black Emperor of the World

November 24, 2019

Lucius Septimius Severus (145-211 A.D.) The Black Emperor of the World (193-211 A.D.) One of the first Black men to rule the world was Lucius Septimius Severus. The world, as the ancients knew it, was divided into three geographical areas: Roman Britain, Roman Asia, and Roman Africa. Septimius Severus, an African, was born in Leptis […]

No Voice

November 10, 2019

Jamya, Age 10, New York I began patting the black leather seats and thinking about how I got to skip school on this windy Thursday morning. As my mom began to speed up, I could hear the tires screeching. I wanted to tell her to slow down because my life was in her hands. That […]

Solomon G. Brown

October 30, 2019

Solomon G. Brown (c. 1829 – 1906) was born a free man in Washington, D.C. while slavery was still legal. In 1864, Mr. Brown wrote of the Confederate march on D.C. and his own exemption from the military draft. His letters provided unique views of a free African American man on the Civil War as […]