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# ![@AfricanArchives Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::808806102.png) @AfricanArchives AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY

AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY posts on X about the first, united states, south africa, symbol the most. They currently have XXXXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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[countries](/list/countries)  #7269 [finance](/list/finance)  #458 [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX% [musicians](/list/musicians)  XXXX% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[the first](/topic/the-first) 8.41%, [united states](/topic/united-states) #2470, [south africa](/topic/south-africa) #1024, [symbol](/topic/symbol) #262, [the british](/topic/the-british) #32, [congo](/topic/congo) 1.87%, [guadeloupe](/topic/guadeloupe) #15, [university of](/topic/university-of) #691, [nigeria](/topic/nigeria) #834, [insurance](/topic/insurance) #11

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"The Kru people indegenous to Liberia and Ivory Coast strongly resisted European enslavement and would've rather committed suicide. Because of their tenacity they were labeled as difficult and less valuable in the slave trade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1998698950316998658)  2025-12-10T10:18Z 1.1M followers, 37.5K engagements


"The players protested playing a game with Brigham Young University (BYU) because of the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS ban on black men holding the priesthood in the church and other racial restrictions. Mormons believe black people are cursed with the mark of Cain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1979193286100230204)  2025-10-17T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 1182 engagements


"In Belgium Congo women were held hostage until their men returned with enough rubber for the colonizer King Leopold The Butcher of Congo. Some had their hands chopped off for not meeting rubber quotas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1987221177060753803)  2025-11-08T18:10Z 1.1M followers, 4867 engagements


"On this day in 1969 activist and chairman of the Black Panther Party Fred Hampton was assassinated by Chicago police and the FBI at just XX years old. William O'Neal an FBI informant infiltrated the Black Panthers and set up Fred Hampton for $XXX. A THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1996643235691696379)  2025-12-04T18:10Z 1.1M followers, 52.5K engagements


"Unknown Bahamian-American family Key West Florida 1900"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1998497958686253238)  2025-12-09T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 51.9K engagements


"He wrapped the coat around his wife and his last words to her were: Here take this you are going to need it. Ill get another boat. God be with you. Ill see you in New York"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1999177499767456124)  2025-12-11T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 5152 engagements


"She was depicted as The Mammy. A Black woman whose purpose & life circled around taking care of the white man & his family and almost ALWAYS desexualized and complacent with not being free"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1999904732781957182)  2025-12-13T18:10Z 1.1M followers, XXX engagements


"It is believed that Solitude was born as a result of her mother being raped by a white sailor while she was being transported on a slave ship from Africa. She was sold into slavery in Guadeloupe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2000989619807031411)  2025-12-16T18:01Z 1.1M followers, 5994 engagements


"The Wyoming Cowboys had won three consecutive Western Athletic Conference (WAC) championships and they were considered as the best football team to ever play for the university in 1969"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1979193292467134873)  2025-10-17T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 1281 engagements


"The Great Depression and the Great Migration were two distinct though interconnected events. The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1996686020545253839)  2025-12-04T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 1683 engagements


"Quilt Codes & the Underground Railroad: How Enslaved People Used Quilts as Maps to Escape To Freedom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1956725365642076367)  2025-08-16T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 2.4M engagements


"Michael Jackson in the studio with his cousin Stevie Wonder 1975"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1714115335345864970)  2023-10-17T03:05Z 1.1M followers, 38.6M engagements


"Former Sharecroppers Talk About Life On The Field And Picking Cotton 1968"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1963611532308221958)  2025-09-04T14:34Z 1.1M followers, 8.1M engagements


"A man rides a bus in Durban meant for white passengers only in resistance to South Africa's apartheid policies 1986"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975509034640822683)  2025-10-07T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 6.8M engagements


"An African boy in a cage watched by two white girls. Belgian Congo 1955"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1985297227913265455)  2025-11-03T10:45Z 1.1M followers, 191.2K engagements


"On this day in 2008 Obama was elected President of the United States"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1985678513886642381)  2025-11-04T12:00Z 1.1M followers, 3.9M engagements


"On this day in 1968 Shirley Chisholm became first black woman elected to the United States Congress"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1986078675268174071)  2025-11-05T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 328.8K engagements


"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Frederick Douglass"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1999222730999103553)  2025-12-11T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 44.2K engagements


"In 1956 Autherine Lucy became the first black student admitted to University of Alabama after a long legal battle that included the Supreme Court. Riots ensued and She was expelled X days later for "her own safety"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2000211771382985126)  2025-12-14T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 41.1K engagements


"Mother Daughter and Maid Johannesburg South Africa 1977"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1964277494648823841)  2025-09-06T10:40Z 1.1M followers, 6.9M engagements


"We need to speak up about what is happening in SUDAN its a GENOCIDE that has led to the World's largest displacement crisis. So Whats Happening in Sudan and How is UAE (Emirates) supporting the genocide #FreeSudan THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1984229450142085326)  2025-10-31T12:02Z 1.1M followers, 1.1M engagements


"Vietnam War Veteran Akmed Lorence on injustice in American Society 1968"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1993688816062718003)  2025-11-26T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 98.4K engagements


"South African mine workers being x-rayed by radiologists at the end of each shift before leaving the De Beers diamond mines in Kimberley South Africa exposing them to radiation constantly 1956"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1994353141555314771)  2025-11-28T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 4.8M engagements


"President Jimmy Carter with Olusegun Obasanjo the leader of Nigeria 1977"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1994738196207325698)  2025-11-29T12:00Z 1.1M followers, 689.8K engagements


"Krotoa a Khoikhoi a translator for the Dutch authorities marriage was the first recorded union between a native and a settler in South Africa. She was banished to Robben Island. As opposed to resisting the Dutch she tried to negotiate for peace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1995138346763292762)  2025-11-30T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 898K engagements


"American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell on Reparations 1959"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1995863173275042107)  2025-12-02T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 695.1K engagements


"A family leaves Florida for the North during the Great Depression"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1996686014866227412)  2025-12-04T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 222.8K engagements


"British colonialism in Africa in a nutshell: Two kinds of British came to Africa. X. The ones with guns to kill and steal the land. X. The ones with the Bible to deceive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1997259810794873141)  2025-12-06T11:00Z 1.1M followers, 84K engagements


""The flag is drenched with our blood Fannie Lou Hamer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1997312707582709771)  2025-12-06T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 182.9K engagements


"Mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home of sharecropper Transylvania Louisiana January 1939"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1997773189946945599)  2025-12-07T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 82.4K engagements


"Bamum King Ibrahim Njoya on his throne western Cameroon 1912. It was the late 19th century in western Africa. European nations had just carved up the continents resources (and people) in the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 during the scramble for Africa. In the ensuing three decades European colonial powers took control of almost XX percent of the continent. In the interior of a territory the German occupiers called Kamerun a sultan named Ibrahim Njoya held sway over the kingdom of Bamum (also spelled Bamoun). He was the most recent in a line of a royal family that had ruled the grasslands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1998339440717045792)  2025-12-09T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 35.2K engagements


"Remembering the late great John Sanford aka Redd Foxx on his birthday today. (December X 1922 October XX 1991)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1998363316738015656)  2025-12-09T12:05Z 1.1M followers, 151.7K engagements


"One year ago today the great author poet educator and activist Nikki Giovanni died. Rest in Peace 🎥: Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin: A Conversation 1971"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1998399877139612120)  2025-12-09T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 187.1K engagements


"Dr. William Conan Davis was the first black man to recieve a PhD from the University of Idaho in 1965. He also co-created the formula for Dasani brand water for Coca-Cola"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1998762196184998208)  2025-12-10T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 52K engagements


"German colonizers in Namibia due to their interest in evolutionary theory and missing links executed inmates and decapitated them. Herero women were required to remove all flesh from the heads to create clean skulls suitable for shipment for study in German Institutes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1999074252356542480)  2025-12-11T11:10Z 1.1M followers, 96.9K engagements


"Law graduating class at Howard University Washington D.C 1900"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1999585132714328145)  2025-12-12T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 71.7K engagements


"A family taking a break at segregated water fountain Mobile Alabama 1956"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2000309898161045886)  2025-12-14T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 39K engagements


"A statue of La Mlatresse Solitude who in 1802 helpled lead a slave revolt while EIGHT Months pregnant in Guadeloupe. She became a martyr and symbol for all women and mothers who against all odds defended the ideals of freedom and equality. A THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2000989615629431208)  2025-12-16T18:01Z 1.1M followers, 167.2K engagements


"Former enslaved people Freed by Union Forces During U.S Civil War 1862"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2001397060415738250)  2025-12-17T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 44.3K engagements


"Ten weeks later around November 1781 the Zong arrived at Tobago then proceeded toward St. Elizabeth but deviated from its route near Haiti. At that stage water shortages illness and fatalities among the crew combined with poor leadership decisions caused chaos"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2001717930535383170)  2025-12-18T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 33.3K engagements


"Children women and men were forced off the ship and left to drown. Some of the men handcuffed and had iron balls tied to their ankles. About XX Africans jumped rather than be pushed by the crew. By December XX about XXX Africans arrived alive a mortality rate of 53%"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2001717940983415106)  2025-12-18T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 22K engagements


"Philip Downing patented his invention the street letter box the predecessor of todays mailbox in 1891. In the 1800s anyone interested in mailing a letter would have to make the long trip to the post office. Philip B. Downing designed a metal box with four legs which he patented on October XX 1891. He called his device a street letter box and it is the predecessor of today's mailbox"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1971906768151199853)  2025-09-27T11:56Z 1.1M followers, 39.5K engagements


"On this day in 1960 Ruby Bridges became the first Black American to attend a white elementary school in the South. A visual reminder of what she faced every day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1989340105287307641)  2025-11-14T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 677.8K engagements


"Over XXX Years of Institutional Racism. Slavery (1619-1865) Black Codes (1865-1866) KKK (1865-) Jim Crow (1877-1954) Redlining (1934-1968) War On Drugs (1971-) Mass Incarceration (1973-) Three Strikes Law(1993-)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1991929669982031976)  2025-11-21T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 310.3K engagements


"The African Renaissance Monument Located in Dakar Senegal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1993628387479334913)  2025-11-26T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 301.1K engagements


"Did you know Sports legends Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis were stationed at Fort Riley during World War X The legendary number "42" and the "Brown Bomber" are pictured in 1942 during their time serving our country. Robinson was drafted and sent to Fort Riley for basic training. During Robinson's time at Fort Riley he passed all the requirements and applied for Officer Candidate School. Robinson along with several other black candidates' applications were dismissed due to their race. Louis used his popularity to campaign on behalf of Robinson and other prospective officers. As a result the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1994149325434179934)  2025-11-27T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 2.1M engagements


"Venus Williamss father schools white journalist on how to interview a 14-year-old Black girl 1995"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1996587933315248207)  2025-12-04T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 378.4K engagements


"On this day in 1865 the 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified abolishing slavery. This picture is XX years after the end of slavery. How Slavery continued after the 13th amendment abolished slavery A THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1997365496845422872)  2025-12-06T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 53.8K engagements


"Malcolm X on Black Economics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1999124632335450125)  2025-12-11T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 77.7K engagements


"Yaa Asantewaa was a queen mother of the Ejisu people in the Ashanti Empire (present-day Ghana). She's remembered for leading the Ashanti rebellion against British colonial rule in 1900. She rallied the Ashanti people to fight against British colonization. The rebellion she led is known as the War of the Golden Stool a symbol of Ashanti power and authority"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1999426572520984861)  2025-12-12T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 15.2K engagements


"The British eventually captured Yaa Asantewaa and exiled her to the Seychelles where she remained until her death in 1921. Yaa Asantewaa is celebrated as a symbol of resistance against colonialism and a heroine of Ghanaian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1999426575863894108)  2025-12-12T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 4934 engagements


"On this day in 1899 Dr. George Grant of Boston was issued patent #638920 for his invention the modern golf tee. He was also the first Black Professor at Harvard University"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1999452997403750656)  2025-12-12T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 67K engagements


"Samora Machel was the first president of independent Mozambique. Machel attended a Catholic mission school for his primary education and by 1954 he had started studying in the capital city of Maputo to become a nurse one of the few occupations open to Black Mozambicans at the time. It was during this time that Machel began criticizing the Portuguese government protesting that Black nurses were paid less than their white counterparts. In 1962 Machel gave up nursing and volunteered for the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) which was an organization dedicated to the liberation of Mozambique"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1999788956582387730)  2025-12-13T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 44.1K engagements


"Black and white passengers on the Atlanta Transit Company trolley on April XX 1956 after the outlawing of segregation on public transit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1999947503702061094)  2025-12-13T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 24.2K engagements


"On this day in 1780 Ignatius Sancho died and became the first African to be given an obituary in the British press. He was XX years old. Ignatius Sancho a composer actor writer and businessman was the first Black person known to have voted in Britain in 1774 and 1780. Sancho was also the first African prose writer whose work was published in England"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2000158911869919536)  2025-12-14T11:00Z 1.1M followers, 40K engagements


"This is the only known photograph of a Black American Union soldier with his family circa 1863"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2000672291932286986)  2025-12-15T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 63.5K engagements


"Activist Angela Davis and her good friend novelist Toni Morrison. Morrison edited and published the first edition of Angela Daviss Autobiography in 1974"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2000936540290068948)  2025-12-16T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 50.6K engagements


"Black Panther Fred Hampton on Capitalism and Socialism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2000971591295881494)  2025-12-16T16:49Z 1.1M followers, 72.3K engagements


"On May XX 2022 she became the very first statue of a Black woman inaugurated in Paris"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2000989660214890516)  2025-12-16T18:01Z 1.1M followers, 9129 engagements


"A Beautiful Black Family 1936"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2001034692422668379)  2025-12-16T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 121.1K engagements


"Mary Violet Leontyne Price is widely regarded as the first Black person to gain international acclaim as a professional opera singer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2001298915061043362)  2025-12-17T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 43.8K engagements


"Happy 79th Birthday to the late Steve Biko. An anti-apartheid activist he founded the Black Consciousness Movement. On 12th September 1977 Stephen Bantu Biko died in a prison cell in Pretoria. XX years later an Afrikaner police Gideon Nieuwoudt admitted to killing him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2001598381177586031)  2025-12-18T10:20Z 1.1M followers, 42.8K engagements


"When Nigeria played in the UK without boots and won 5-2 back in 1949"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2001661364624871524)  2025-12-18T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 269.5K engagements


"In 1781 over XXX enslaved Africans were thrown overboard and drowned so that the slavers could cash in on the insurance of those enslaved. The Zong Massacre THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2001717925560848833)  2025-12-18T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 1.6M engagements


"By end of November about XX Africans had died from either disease or malnutrition. The Zong then sailed in an area in the Atlantic known as the Doldrums notorious for stagnant winds. Stranded there illness ravaged the ship claiming over XX more lives as conditions worsened"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2001717932863156701)  2025-12-18T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 30.1K engagements


"Desperate as they ran out of water Luke Collingwood captain of the ship decided to jettison some of the cargo in order to save the ship & provide its owners the opportunity to claim insurance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2001717938248688035)  2025-12-18T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 26.3K engagements


"Beautiful Black Women at New York's Penn Station in 1942"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2001759453842981036)  2025-12-18T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 54.5K engagements


"In 1971 Idi Amin Dada took over power in Uganda. His full title was His Excellency President for Life Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor VC DSO MC Lord of All the Beasts Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2002333232835035561)  2025-12-20T11:00Z 1.1M followers, 49.8K engagements


"We died to build America. Minister Louis Farrakhan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2002386152595009736)  2025-12-20T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 89.9K engagements


"New Orleans in the 1960s was sharply divided over the practice of segregation and the "Citizens Council of Greater New Orleans" advocated some pretty silly stuff including a protest against black musicians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2002748470923280592)  2025-12-21T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 17.6K engagements