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NBK History Brothers present Jungle Fever. White folks and their obsession with the Jungle and Congo. SUBSCRIBE: NEW BLACK KNOWLEDGE www.youtube.com/c/NewBlackKnowledge Instagram: www.instagram.com/nbklyrad Twitter: www.twitter.com/nbklyrad Facebook: NBK ACADEMY Fb.me/nbkacademy1

The History Brothers discuss the first Africans in New York and the African Burial Ground. SUBSCRIBE: NEW BLACK KNOWLEDGE www.youtube.com/c/NewBlackKnowledge Instagram: www.instagram.com/nb

The World’s First African-American Rolls Royce Car Dealer Thomas Moorehead is not only the first African American Rolls Royce car dealer but the only Rolls Royce dealership in greater Washington, D

Roscoe Robinson Jr. (October 11, 1928 – July 22, 1993) was the first African American to become a four-star general in the United States Army. He was born on October 11, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri.

Team NBK present the History of Drum Magazine. Drum was started in 1951, as African Drum by former test cricketer and author Bob Crisp and Jim Bailey an ex-R.A.F. pilot, son of South African financier Sir Abe Bailey. Initially under Crisp's editorship, the magazine had a paternalistic, tribal

Willie and George Muse were black albino brothers born in Roanoke, VA in 1893. In 1899 they were kidnapped by sideshow agents and told there mother had died and they would never see her again. They were showcased as White Ecuadorian cannibals, Eko and Iko. In the mid 1920s the brothers toured with R

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“Stagecoach” Mary Fields (c. 1832-1914) was born a slave in Tennessee and following the Civil War, she moved to the pioneer community of Cascade, Montana. In 1895, when she was around 60 years old, Fi

Millie and Christine McCoy (1851-1912) were conjoined twins born into slavery. They and their mother were sold to a showman, Joseph Smith. Smith and his wife educated the girls; they eventually could

Gangster Music and Gangsta Rap are said to have their birth in the 1980s. The truth is..... none of that is true. #NBKLife #GothamGriots SUBSCRIBE: NEW BLACK KNOWLEDGE www.youtube.com/c/NewBla

Samuel "Sam" Sharpe The leader of a Maafa (slavery) rebellion in Jamaica in 1831 which became known as the Christmas Rebellion. The uprising lasted 10 days and spread throughout the entire island,

Katherine Johnson The NASA Mathematician Who Advanced Human Rights with a Slide Rule and Pencil NASA chief Charles Bolden recalls the historic trajectory of the “human computer” who played a key ro

Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, known as Sissieretta Jones, (b.1868 – d.1933) was an American soprano. She sometimes was called "The Black Patti" in reference to Italian opera singer Adelina Patti.

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The Magnificent Walls of Benin "The Walls of Benin were a combination of ramparts and moats, called Iya in the local language[which?], used as a defense of the defunct Kingdom of Benin, which is present-day Benin City, the capital of present-day Edo, Nigeria. It was considered the largest man-mad

Emmett W. Chappelle Is a scientist who made valuable contributions in the fields of medicine, philanthropy, food science, and Astrochemistry. From 1950 to 1955 he served as an instructor of bio

He was the first Black Japanese Samurai in history and he was essentially one of the ‘Right Hand Men’ of the war lord of 16th century Japan: Oda Nobunaga. Yasuke (彌介) is what they cal

James Samuel Watson (1882–1952) was one of the first two Black Americans elected as a judge in New York City. James S. Watson was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica on May 29, 1882. His father, James

Black horsemen played a vital role in shaping early American turf history, and the Kentucky Derby is no exception. The history of the Kentucky Derby and African-American horsemen are intertwined. The

The Groveland Four (or the Groveland Boys) were four young African-American men: Earnest Thomas, Charles Greenlee, Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irvin, who were accused of raping a 17-year-old white woma

Roger Arliner Young (1889-1964) was born in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania in 1889, was the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in zoology and to conduct research at the prestigious Marine Biological Labora

6 year old Romanieo Jr. engages in playful improvisation in describing the structure of organic molecules. AMAZING!!! Click this link to subscribe: www.youtube.com/c/NewBlackKnowledge IG: www.i

Team NBK discusses the origins of the Black Conscious Community and some of the important figures that laid the foundation. Men and women such as Hubert Harrison, John Edward Bruce, John Henrik Clarke, Arturo Schomburg and many others paved the way for first a Consciousness of Africa and also an awa

Prince Hall is recognized as the founder of Black Freemasonry in America. The Freemasons are a society of secrets, but there is one secret all should know about the founder of Black Freemasonry in Ame