… the son of a slaveholder and an almost white slave
who was so white that “the closest obsever could not
detect in his appearance any trace of African descent.”
His father sent him off for an education and trade and
he “married an estimable young white woman, and had
a family of five or six children,” all of this without
“the slightest knowledge of the [ ] African blood in
his veins, and no one in the neighborhood knew that
he was the son of an octoroon slave woman. read more

SOCA ARTIST Alphonsus Cassell, more popularly known as Arrow, has passed on to the other realm.

The 55-year-old musician and songwriter passed away in Antigua where he had been seeking medical treatment for brain tumor problems. read more

Kmt means black, and it only means black, it is what follows that tells us – black (what)?

Some examples of usage: (Note: the ‘t’ is silent, and is merely used to make the word a feminine noun.) read more

1) According to Cheik Anta Diop, “no Arab army ever crossed the Sahara in an attempt to conquer Africa, except for the Moroccan war of the sixteenth century. During the period of our study, from the third to the seventeenth centuries, not one conquest was ever launched by way of the Nile: That of the Sudan (modern country), accompanied with the help of England, came only in the nineteenth century. Nor was there ever an Arab conquest of? Mozambique or any other East African country.” read more