37,000 years of history they didn't teach you.
Oldest mathematical artifact in human history. Found in Eswatini with 29 notches tracking lunar cycles. Mathematics began in Africa.
Learn more →Found in Congo. Contains prime numbers and multiplication patterns. The world's oldest calculator, now in Belgium's Royal Institute of Natural Sciences.
Learn more →Indigenous West African writing system develops in Nigeria/Cameroon. Used for sacred knowledge, law, and communication. Still in use today.
Learn more →Great Pyramid built. Hieroglyphics, advanced medicine, mathematics developed. Every Western alphabet traces back to Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Learn more →World's first physician, architect, and engineer. Designed the Step Pyramid. 2,000 years before Hippocrates.
Learn more →Kingdom of Kush conquers Egypt. Nubian kings rule as the 25th Dynasty. Built more pyramids than Egypt. Meroe pyramids still stand in Sudan.
Learn more →Massive stone city in Southern Africa. Walls 36 feet high, built without mortar. Home to 18,000 people. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Learn more →Ruler of Mali Empire. Richest person in human history (~$400 billion). His 1324 pilgrimage crashed Egypt's economy for 12 years.
Learn more →25,000 students at Sankore University. 700,000 manuscripts on astronomy, medicine, law. While Europe was in the Dark Ages.
Learn more →First enslaved Africans arrive in the Americas. Over 350 years, 12.5 million kidnapped. 2 million died in the Middle Passage.
Learn more →First documented Africans arrive at Point Comfort. Beginning of 246 years of chattel slavery in America.
Learn more →First Black U.S. Deputy Marshal west of the Mississippi. Arrested 3,000+ felons, never wounded. Likely inspired the Lone Ranger.
Learn more →13th Amendment abolishes slavery "except as punishment for crime." Slavery continued under another name until 1928.
Learn more →Only successful coup d'état in American history. White supremacists overthrow elected Black government in NC. 60-300 killed.
Learn more →Greenwood District in Tulsa begins to flourish. By 1921: 200+ Black-owned businesses, hospitals, newspapers, libraries.
Learn more →White mobs destroy 35 blocks of Greenwood. 300+ killed, 10,000 homeless. First aerial bombing of an American city. Erased from history for decades.
Learn more →U.S. government "studies" 399 Black men with syphilis. Never told, never treated. Continued 40 years until 1972.
Learn more →Federal Housing Administration draws red lines around Black neighborhoods. Banks forbidden from giving mortgages. This is why the wealth gap exists.
Learn more →HeLa cells become first "immortal" human cells. Led to polio vaccine, cancer treatments, COVID vaccines. Family not compensated until 2023.
Learn more →Nine months before Rosa Parks, 15-year-old Claudette refuses to give up her bus seat in Montgomery. Erased from history until recently.
Learn more →Philadelphia police drop bomb from helicopter on Black neighborhood. 11 killed including 5 children. 65 homes destroyed. No officers charged.
Learn more →44th President of the United States. First African American to hold the office. From enslaved people building the White House to a Black family living in it.
Learn more →From the Ishango Bone to the White House. From Timbuktu to today. The story is not over. You are part of it.