Sir Godfrey GreggBasil Biggs moved from Baltimore, MD to Gettysburg in 1858. A teamster, Biggs moved north to seek a better education for his children. The Biggs family rented a farm west of Gettysburg and as the Confederate army moved into Pennsylvania, Basil sent his family east to safety. He stayed…
Sir Godfrey GreggBY: NATASHA GREGG THE AFRO-PERUVIAN REVOLT – The first Africans arrived to Perú as slaves, sailors and soldiers amongst the conquistadors and were amongst troops that toppled the Inca Empire in 1533. As many white settlers from Spain arrived to Perú, the demand for slave labor increased substantially.…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggNEW YORK’S BURIED AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY FLASHBACK WHY YOU SHOULD CARE New York City’s past is darker and more complicated than you might imagine. By Steven Butler THE DAILY DOSEJUN 13 2015 Buried last winter in an arctic blast, Minetta Street and adjoining Minetta Lane were a sorry, frozen, mostly…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: NATASHA GREGG THE 1537 REBELLION PLOT – The rise in silver mines and sugar plantations in Mexico, up the demand for slave labor to complete the labor intensive work. Thus began the ingress of slaves from Africa to Mexico. As slaves were imported continuously, the slave populations…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggGuadeloupe #58 (1922) GUADELOUPE #58 (1922) Guadeloupe is an insular region of France located in the Leeward Islands, part of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. Administratively, it is an overseas region consisting of a single overseas department. It has a land area of 629 square miles (1,628…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThe lynching of Jesse Washington. This Black History Month be Emboldened to Live Your Truth for all those murdered in the land of the free. Washington was beaten with shovels and bricks,was castrated, and his ears were cut off. A tree supported the iron chain that lifted him above…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThe Road Not Taken TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair,…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThe Bailiwick of Guernsey is one of three Crown dependencies of the United Kingdom. Separated from the Dukedom and Duchy of Normandy by and under the terms of the Treaty (or Peace) of Le Goulet in 1204, the Bailiwick comprises the inhabited islands of Alderney, Guernsey, Herm, Jethou, Lihou,…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: NATASHA GREGG THE MALÊ REVOLT – During the era of slavery in the Caribbean and Latin America, out of all the colonies, Brazil had the largest population of slaves. As Christianity was assimilated throughout the colonies by the colonists, Islam too was assimilated, but by the slaves, who…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThe Rosewood Massacre: How a lie destroyed a black town AJC Sepia Black History Month FLORIDA MEMORY The house of a black resident of Rosewood goes up in flames during the race riots of 1923. (Florida Memory) Posted: 10:49 a.m. Friday, February 17, 2017 From the bruises on her…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThe Rise and Rise of Staying Woke… This Dude and Dr Martin Luther King were part of the first, Black Lives Matter Movement. When Civil Rights was the agenda. Not violence. But, true empowerment. Which has alwayz frightened the Conservative Establishment. Funny how…. Even some 50-yearz on, Malcolm X’s…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: NATASHA GREGG THE AGUADILLA REVOLT OF 1795 – The success of the Haitian Revolution in 1791 glaringly reveal to the colonial powers in the Caribbean the real threat of slave uprisings and the costs of self-liberation. After Saint Domingue’s success in gaining independence, all colonial powers in their…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggWHY YOU SHOULD CARE Because this extraordinary World War I soldier is still being left out of the story 100 years later. You never know who you’re sharing an elevator with — and back when Rockefeller Center still had elevator operators, it was easy to ignore the elderly Black…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggVIDEO: DO THE POLICE TODAY REMIND YOU OF SLAVE PATROLS DURING THE 1700S? BY JAE JONES – FEBRUARY 18, 2017 – DOCUMENTARY, LATEST POSTS, RACISM, SLAVERY During #slavery there were many African-Americans who fought back against those who were trying to imprison them. These individuals were not going to…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggVIRGIL LAMAR WARE, A 13-YEAR-OLD UNSUNG SOLDIER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Virgil Lamar Ware, known as Virgil Ware, was born on December 6, 1949. He grew up in Pratt City, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. The third of six children, Ware was an excellent student who enjoyed playing…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggLYNCHING OF PREGNANT 19-YEAR-OLD MARY TURNER Mary Turner was a 19-year-old black woman born in 1899 to Perry Graham and Elizabeth Johnson in Brooks County, Georgia. When Turner was eight months pregnant, she was murdered after she publicly denounced the unlawful extrajudicial killing of her husband, Hazel Turner. On…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: NATASHA GREGG THE BLOODY BAY REBELLION – Prior to the Treaty of Paris that ceded the island of Tobago to Britain in 1763, the island had remained neutral between the French and British. Once Tobago was in the hands of Britain, the colonial powers wasted no time in…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggTHE BACK STORY: MEET THE MAN BEHIND THIS POWERFUL IMAGE You’ve likely seen the picture of this runaway slave exposing his scourged back 100 times. Besides the obvious, did you ever wonder how or why he endured such horrendous treatment? The true story of Mr. Oliver Gordon’s brutal ordeal…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggCelebrating Black History Month: Iconic Civil Rights Moments Yahoo News Photo Staff February 6, 2017 Black History Month is a time for the United States to remember and honor the plentiful and rich contributions of African-Americans to the nation. The civil rights movement of the ’50s and ’60s helped define…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThis make you uncomfortable ? Black history is U.S. history. This picture is only 75yrs old, How many of you have grandparents who are 75 and older ? Can you imagine what they went through ? Don’t be afraid of the past and don’t forget it Average Rating 0…
Read more
