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Tariq ibn‑Ziyad

When Black Men Ruled Europe: Tariq ibn‑Ziyad

Tariq bin Ziyad is considered to be one of the most important military commanders in the Iberian history (the Iberian Peninsula , includes the countries of Andorra, Portugal and Spain, and the British colony of Gibraltar).

Wilma Rudolph

In 1960, Wilma Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at a single Olympics. "My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

Women of the British Black Panthers

Women of the British Black Panthers

In Kehinde Andrews’ words “Black women weren’t just part of the history of the black power movement; they led it in Britain” .

Cartoon Image of Yanga Gaspar

Yanga, Gaspar - First liberator of the Americas

Yanga is said to have been a royal from the Bran, people in the country that later became Gabon. Yanga was an enslaved worker in the sugarcane plantations of Veracruz, Mexico.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.(born June 7, 1943) is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator.

Zulu Warfare

Zulus would run directly at the enemy soldiers and stab them in the stomach to disembowel them. He introduced (and perhaps invented) the bull horn formation Many historians say Shaka Zulu was the first military leader to use the bull horn formation.

Battle of Isandlwana painting

Zulus vs the British: Battles of Isandlwana & Rourke’s Drift

Isandlwana represents the most glorious moment in Zulu military history. The first engagement of the Anglo‑Zulu War, it represented a triumph of spear over the most modern weaponry of the day. While the Zulu would have other victories, this was their finest.

Leo Africanus

No other could ever recreate what Al-Hassan Ibn Mouhamed Al-Wazzan, Al-Fasi, had achieved in Europe, as a writer, geographer and papal adviser. This Moor moved through various roles, at diﬀerent junctures he was a Granadan refugee, a Moroccan explorer of sub-Saharan Africa, a royal ambassador, a Muslim slave and a converted Moor living in Rome.

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