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NBK Truthstorian presents Give The Drummer Some, The Soundtrack of the African Diaspora. Give the Drummer Some explores the African diaspora and their connection to the drum. SUBSCRIBE: NEW BLACK KNOWLEDGE www.youtube.com/c/NewBlackKnowledge Instagram: www.instagram.com/nbklyrad Twitter

Linda Brown was born on February 20, 1942, in Topeka, Kansas. Because she was forced to travel a significant distance to elementary school due to racial segregation, her father was one of the plaintiffs in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, with the Supreme Court ruling in 1954 that school seg

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

“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,