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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 south africa, united states, kingdom of, prime minister 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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**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [musicians](/list/musicians)  XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX% [finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies)  XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX%

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[south africa](/topic/south-africa) #422, [united states](/topic/united-states) #3489, [kingdom of](/topic/kingdom-of) #126, [prime minister](/topic/prime-minister) #2438, [mali](/topic/mali) #308, [elvis](/topic/elvis) 0.37%, [madagascar](/topic/madagascar) #437, [stevie wonder](/topic/stevie-wonder) #57, [money](/topic/money) 0.37%, [buffalo](/topic/buffalo) XXXX%

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### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::808806102/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"John Morton Finney was a Buffalo soldier who fought in World War X earned XX degrees and practiced law until he was XXX years old. He was believed to be the longest practicing attorney in the United States. John Morton-Finney (June XX 1889 - January XX 1998) was an American civil rights activist lawyer and educator who earned XX academic degrees including X law degrees. He spent most of his career as an educator and lawyer after serving from 1911 to 1914 in the U.S. Army as a member of the 24th Infantry Regiment better known as the Buffalo soldiers and with the American Expeditionary Forces"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977117120975478795) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-11T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 100.5K engagements


"In 1942 the Tuskegee Airmen became the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military and fought in World War II. The Tuskegee Airmen epitomized courage and heroism. The first unit the 99th Pursuit Squadron was activated at Chanute Field in Rantoul Illinois on March XX 1941 nine months before the United States officially entered World War II. Over the past seven decades the exploits of the Tuskegee Airmen have been celebrated occasionally mythologized and used as a recent reminder of the patriotism and heroism of African Americans in times of national crisis. Mounting pressure by"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1976260220796961073) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-09T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 39.2K engagements


"Africas wealth was stolen for centuries now they call it foreign aid when they return XXX% of it. Africa's stolen wealth was used to stimulate the economies of many Western nations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978468610348658917) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-15T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 27.2K engagements


"Rosa Ingram and her teen sons were sentenced to death in 1948 after they murdered a white neighbor who attempted to sexually assault their mother. Thanks to civil rights activists the story gained national press. They were later released on parole for being "model prisoners." In 1948 Rosa Lee Ingram a sharecropper and widowed Mother of four boys was the center of one of the most-explosive capital punishment cases in history. In 1948 in a one-day trial Ingram and two of her teenage boys were sentenced to die by electric chair after an altercation with a White landowner in the state of Georgia."  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977800341459509382) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-13T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 132.1K engagements


"Ganga Zumbi the African Spartacus. Was born in Kongo in 1630 enslaved and shipped to Brazil to work as a plantation slave. Managed to escape raised an army of enslaved Africans and founded his own kingdom of Palmares with a palace and court. THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1952784527685804146) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-08-05T17:31Z 1.1M followers, 160.4K engagements


"63 years ago today Jamaica gained its independence from British after over XXX years of slavery and exploitation. It remains as an independent domininon within the British Commonwealth and the King remains the Head of State. THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1953101369470021884) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-08-06T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 61.7K engagements


"is the sheep preaching hate when he says that im not going to let the wolf eat me anymore Denzel Washington speaking on Malcolm X"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978106159929168340) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-14T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 107.7K 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) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-09-27T11:56Z 1.1M followers, 39.1K engagements


"In 1944 The United States Maritime Commission launched the SS Harriet Tubman the first Liberty ship ever named for a Black woman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975305174764650881) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-06T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 50.5K engagements


"No other race is told to forget their history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1974119860964618351) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-03T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 6.8M engagements


"A photograph of Malcolm X's mother Louise Norton Little (1897-1989). Louise Little was a brilliant woman speaking multiple languages and for years along with her husband Earl Little a dedicated activist of Marcus Garvey's Pan-African Movement (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League). Louise Norton Little (1897-1989) was a Grenadian-born American activist and the mother of Malcolm X. Here are some key facts about her life. - Born in Grenada to a former slave from Nigeria and a Scotsman - Raised by her grandparents in Grenada - Immigrated to Canada in 1917 and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1973855643372024148) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-02T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 153.2K engagements


"On this day In 1966 The Black Panther Party for Self Defence was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Originally founded to fight police racism they were dedicated to liberating people from white supremacism and also fed the hungry and mentored youth. A THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978521364253249816) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-15T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 39.7K engagements


"Others have stated that the term comes from the earliest settlers of the region being a tribe called the 'Nuba' or ' Noba'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975626083287343116) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-07T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 1399 engagements


"On this day in 1966 Lesotho formerly Basutoland became independent from British rule with King Moshoeshoe II as head of state and Chief Leabua Jonathan as prime minister"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1974422837147345403) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-04T10:34Z 1.1M followers, 36K engagements


"This lead to the death of X solider injury of X and XX convictions. Back in America the battle was hushed up because they didnt want the country to find out that they were fighting their own soldiers which would anger the black population and weaken the morale in the country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1974540407192084526) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-04T18:21Z 1.1M followers, 2542 engagements


"Dr. Charles Drew a Black American surgeon pioneered Blood Banks making it possible to store blood plasma for transfusion helping save countless lives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1974180245885374492) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-03T18:30Z 1.1M followers, 63.3K engagements


"The Mali kingdom at one point accounted for half of the world's gold supply; and housed over a million manuscripts so you could argue academia in the continent really began here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975626069802729935) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-07T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 1611 engagements


"I Too BY LANGSTON HUGHES I too sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes But I laugh And eat well And grow strong. Tomorrow Ill be at the table When company comes. Nobodyll dare Say to me Eat in the kitchen Then. Besides Theyll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed I too am America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978204288884019561) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-14T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 86.1K engagements


"63 years ago today Uganda was proclaimed independent from the British with Milton Obote as the first prime minister"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1976233680868634685) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-09T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 18.6K engagements


"Godfather and godmother of Rock N Roll Chuck Berry and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Chuck Berry once said his entire career was "one long Sister Rosetta Tharpe impersonation.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977479739112624158) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-12T21:01Z 1.1M followers, 57.7K engagements


"Ray Charles Explaining Why He Wasn't Impressed With Elvis Presley"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1974482137983434755) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-04T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 145.5K engagements


"Did you know Cornrows were used to help enslaved people escape slavery They used cornrows to create maps to leave plantations. Its most documented in Colombia where Benkos Bioho came up with the idea to have women create maps & deliver messages through cornrows. A THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1961847725906907428) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-08-30T17:45Z 1.1M followers, 254.7K engagements


"Big Mama Thornton performing "Hound Dog". She released the song first in 1953 before Elvis Presley (1956) his biggest worldwide rock and roll hit record. Thornton was a blues singer who helped shape the sound of Rock&Roll. She released the song Hound Dog in 1953 and it sold two million records and went #1 on the R&B charts. Unfortunately Thornton only received about $XXX from those profits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1918674533998858352) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-05-03T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 424K engagements


"Happy Birthday to the late Great Ms. Fannie Lou Hamer. Nobodys free until everybodys free Fannie Lou Hamer was a voting rights activist and civil rights leader. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). On June X 1963 Hamer was on her way back from Charleston South Carolina with other activists from a literacy workshop. Stopping in Winona Mississippi the group was arrested on a false charge and jailed. Once in jail Hamer and her colleagues were beaten savagely by the police almost to the point of death. Released on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975173053093925233) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-06T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 66.6K engagements


"Lonnie Johnson NASA engineer invented the Super Soaker. He made your childhood hot summers fun. He turns XX today. Happy Birthday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975263641948627021) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-06T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 2.4M engagements


"Rachel Isum and Jackie Robinson met during their time at UCLA. She pursued a nursing career while Jackie was excelling in four varsity sports: baseball basketball football and track"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1770967764141744377) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2024-03-22T00:16Z 1.1M followers, 56.8K engagements


"The Nazis were not the only ones who operated concentration camps. Britain used them in South Africa and Kenya. In Kenya the camps were sites for random executions and Interrogation involved stuffing detainees mouth with mud and stomping their throats till they passed out. Before the British fought the Nazis they used history's first concentration camps to commit genocide during the Boer War. These camps were built by British soldiers amid the Boer War during which the British rounded up Dutch Boers and native South Africans and locked them into cramped camps where they died off by the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975207042596888865) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-06T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 77.2K engagements


"Former Sharecroppers Talk About Life On The Field And Picking Cotton 1968"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1963611532308221958) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-09-04T14:34Z 1.1M followers, 8M engagements


"Thomas W. Stewart was a black inventor from Kalamazoo Michigan. He patented a new type of mop in 1893. His mop was special because the head could be replaced by unclamping the old mop head and clamping on a new one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977381342674338091) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-12T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 41.9K engagements


"Sarah Boone invented the modern ironing board streamlining the ironing process for women's clothing. Her patented design awarded in 1892 made her one of the first black women to receive a patent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975897822282080751) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-08T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 250.9K engagements


"A lady preparing gravy in the kitchen Missouri 1938"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1971320414178529781) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-09-25T21:06Z 1.1M followers, 1.4M engagements


"Mary Fields aka Stagecoach Mary was hired as a mail carrier because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of six horses. She was the first black woman employed as a mail carrier in the US and the second woman to work for the US Postal Service. Mary Fields was born enslaved around 1832 and freed following the American Civil War. In 1895 Fields was hired as a mail carrier because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of six horses. Fields was the first African American woman and only the second woman to work in the United States Postal Service. She got her nickname stagecoach"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1976656580079673368) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-10T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 52.4K engagements


"On this day in 1806 Benjamin Banneker died. In 1753 he created the first functioning clock in the U.S entirely out of wood it was so advanced it kept accurate time for over XX years. During his funeral all his belongings including the clock were destroyed in a mysterious house fire. He also helped survey and design Washington D.C. Benjamin Banneker. A Mathematician and astronomer who planned all the construction of the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. Benjamin Banneker is known for The first African American To create a scientific book an almanac published in 1791. Bannekers book contained"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1976350806086422975) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-09T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 90.7K engagements


"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. James Baldwin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975754719277560164) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-08T02:46Z 1.1M followers, 146.8K engagements


"On this day in 1932 Comedian actor writer social critic and activist Dick Gregory was born"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977347379452838317) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-12T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 63.3K engagements


"A lone Black man attends a Klan rally in Jackson Mississippi 1950"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1976392337765913039) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-09T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 150.7K engagements


"Black Students Asked Why They Chose To Attend a HBCU 1978"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1951652457236619651) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-08-02T14:33Z 1.1M followers, 101K engagements


"Two wealthy women of Madagascar 1900s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1958476792580264183) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-08-21T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 164.7K engagements


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


"When the Zulu People of South Africa defeated the British A THREAD In 1879 the British army invaded the independent & previously friendly Zulu kingdom which had been founded by the formidable Nguni warrior Shaka Zulu in 1818"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978159225109876762) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-14T18:01Z 1.1M followers, 29.7K engagements


"Africans around the world fought in both World Wars only to return home to colonialism in Africa and the Caribbean and Jim Crow in America. Throughout history weve been enlisted to fights and die in wars instigated by our oppressors; wars which had nothing to do with us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1968389630673227819) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-09-17T19:00Z 1.1M followers, 41K engagements


"THE KINGDOM OF WAGADU (GHANA) This kingdom was an important stop along the trans-Saharan trade route which connected African societies in the Sahel to the markets found along the coastlines of the Mediterranean Sea and the trans-Saharan gold trade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975626091835375927) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-07T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 1875 engagements


"38 years ago today Thomas Sankara a revolutionary African leader was assassinated by French imperialists. Rest In Power Sankara drove out French imperialism from Burkina Faso and withdrew from IMF and made the country non-reliant on foreign aid. He was assassinated in a coup led by his close ally Blaise Compaor supported by French imperialists As far as African leadership goes Thomas Sankara was cut from a different piece of cloth. Here are some of his accomplishments ONLY X YEARS in power (1983-87): He vaccinated XXX million children against meningitis yellow fever and measles in a matter of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978415658992840822) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-15T11:00Z 1.1M followers, 76.4K engagements


"The House Negro Malcolm X"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1976294077441397234) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-09T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 149.5K engagements


"On this day in 1865 enslaved people in Texas were notified by Union Civil War soldiers about the abolition of slavery. This was XXX years after the final Emancipation Proclamation which freed all enslaved Black Americans. #Juneteenth But Slavery continued A THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1935759602659852735) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-06-19T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 385K engagements


"History books say slaves were brought to America but no one ever asked the free Africans if they wanted to leave their homeland. They were stolen shackled crammed head-to-toe in slave ships traded for goods or sold"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978083722852192583) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-14T13:01Z 1.1M followers, 33.3K engagements


"A rare picture of George Harry Galt a British colonial officer arriving in Ibanda in 1905. A tired Ugandan Rutaraka later speared him to death"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1974438619449299427) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-04T11:37Z 1.1M followers, 71.4K engagements


"The Devils Punchbowl in Natchez Mississippi was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black people were funneled into concentration camps. As the enslaved people were released from the plantations in large numbers following the Emancipation Proclamation and the advance of Union forces Natchez became a refuge for many seeking freedom. But instead of freedom the Union Army traps them in a concentration camp in this deep-ass pit surrounded by steep bluffs known as the Devils Punch Bowl. However the influx overwhelmed the towns resources. Union authorities struggling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1973395083346014366) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-01T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 69.1K engagements


"In Louisiana black women were put in cells with male prisoners and some became pregnant All children born in the penitentiary became property of the state At XX years they would be auctioned off. The proceeds were used to fund schools for white kids THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977075569037566394) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-11T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 193K engagements


"On this day in 1963 four little girls: Denise McNair(11) Carole Robertson(14)Addie Mae Collins(14) and Cynthia Dianne Wesley(14) were killed when white supremacists bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. The bomber was found not guilty of murder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1967596886702878809) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-09-15T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 1.1M engagements


"you may read about the ill treatment of black American soldiers by their own army in the book FORGOTTEN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1974540413751922739) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-04T18:21Z 1.1M followers, 15.8K engagements


"13 year old Stevie Wonder and XX year old Muhammad Ali 1963"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1973493226922279185) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-01T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 86.7K engagements


"Shaka had been the first proper king in South Africa in that he managed to unite almost XXX Eastern NguniBantu clans under his rule displacing the rest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978159232273764371) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-14T18:01Z 1.1M followers, 1079 engagements


"In 1960 four black college students staged a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro NC. They sparked a national movement across the country. Instructions were simple: sit quietly and wait to be served"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977841876645421444) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-13T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 87.2K engagements


"we've come a long way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977746927706866075) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-13T14:43Z 1.1M followers, 226.9K 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) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-08-16T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 2.4M engagements


"A Fulani home early 20th century Cameroon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1963912631296630958) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-09-05T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 65K engagements


"On this day in 1966 Botswana formerly Bechuanaland gained independence from Britain with Seretse Khama as its first president. This marked the establishment of a stable democratic state in Southern Africa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975142854155436136) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-06T10:15Z 1.1M followers, 29.8K engagements


"THE KINGDOM OF KUSH Kush was a part of Nubia ancient Nubian cultures were sophisticated and cosmopolitan as the region served as a major trading center for goods from the African interior Arabian desert and Mediterranean basin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975626077088129120) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-07T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 1689 engagements


"One of the most influential Black women in California Bridget Biddy Mason was one of the first black women to own land in California. She was born enslaved but sued for her freedom used her midwifery skills to earn money that she invested in real estate & died one of the wealthiest women in Los Angeles. Her financial success enabled her to support her extended family for generations despite the fact that she was illiterate. Biddy Bridget Mason (1815-1891) was born into slavery and "given" as a wedding gift to a Mormon couple in Mississippi named Robert and Rebecca Smith. In 1847 at age 32"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1974844636096025014) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-05T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 69.7K engagements


"When they tell us to go back to Africa Minister Louis Farrakhan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975569303069204836) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-07T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 43.1K engagements


"The Battle of Bamber Bridge 1943. Racist US military police attacked black US troops on British soil. US military authorities demanded the towns pubs impose a colour bar the local landlords responded with signs that read Black Troops Only which pissed them off. A THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1974540376078745648) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-04T18:21Z 1.1M followers, 80.3K engagements


"On this day in 1914 Garrett T Morgan patented his invention the Gas Mask. His invention saved countless lives. He also invented the automated electric traffic light signals 🚦 an improved sewing machine and a hair-straightening product"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977713538543014111) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-13T12:30Z 1.1M followers, 128K engagements


"The first and only black-owned automobile in history was the Patterson-Greenfield Automobile Company pioneered by Frederick Patterson and his father Charles R. Patterson. Frederick Douglas Patterson was the first African American to build motorized cars. His father Charles Rich Patterson created C. R. Patterson and Sons Company located in Greenfield Ohio. Beginning in 1865 the company built fashionable carriages. Frederick Patterson inherited the company upon the death of his father in 1910 and began building motorized vehicles. The first Patterson automobile the Patterson-Greenfield rolled"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975931828444733647) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-08T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 49.9K engagements


"On this day in 1964 Martin Luther King Jr became the youngest man ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize at that time. He later donated the prize money of $54123 to furthering the civil rights movement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978053287162106061) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-14T11:00Z 1.1M followers, 54.4K engagements


"Africa is portrayed as a continent without history before slavery and colonialism. African History isn't known by many people compared to the history of Europe Americas and Asia. Some of the world's great civilisations such as Mali flourished in Africa. A THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975626035212288011) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-07T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 81.3K engagements


"Cecil Williams drinking from a "Whites Only" water fountain in 1956. He was an avid photographer of civil rights injustice and an early pioneer to hold up a mirror to discrimination segregation and inequality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1974218013223043403) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-03T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 66.5K engagements


"October X 1951 Henrietta Lacks dies at Johns Hopkins Hospital at the age of XX. Her cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951 (HeLa cells) and became one of the most important tools in medicine. They became vital for developing the polio vaccine cloning gene mapping in vitro fertilization & more. Henrietta Lacks was black woman who unknowingly was the source of cells (from her cancerous tumor) which were cultured by George Otto Gey to create the 1st known human immortal cell line for medical research. The Diagnosis: On January XX 1951 Henrietta went to Johns Hopkins Hospital because she"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1974448274913276220) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-04T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 198.3K engagements


"65 years ago today Nigeria gained independence from the British colonial rule. Happy Indepedence Day Nigeria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1973342233605673375) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-01T11:00Z 1.1M followers, 81.5K engagements


"Did you know The real Betty Boop was inspired by a Black Harlem jazz singer named Esther Jones. Ever heard of Baby Esther She later sued the cartoonist but the court threw out the case and she was never compensated A THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1966924954361868752) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-09-13T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 228.4K engagements


"Slavery was Legal. Colonialism was Legal. Jim Crow was Legal. Apartheid was Legal. Legality is a matter of Power NOT Justice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1974897491595182580) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-05T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 887K engagements


"Maya Angelou Speaks On The Difference Between Black Vs. White Womanhood 1973"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977018852262527463) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-11T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 114.4K 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) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-07T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 6.7M engagements


"2nd October 1800 Nat Turner was born in the Tidewater region of Virginia. He was an anti-slavery revolutioniary an insurrectionist and started one of the deadliest slave revolt in the U.S. Around early 1828 he was convinced that he was ordained for some great purpose in the hands of the Almighty. A solar eclipse and an unusual atmospheric event and is what inspired Nat Turner to start his insurrection which began on August XX 1831. Nat Turner believed God was showing him a sign by putting a black man hand over the Sun. Its been known for thousands of years solar eclipse give off energy. On"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1973818132138537383) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-02T18:31Z 1.1M followers, 142.3K engagements


"Tooth sharpening is customary in various cultures. Historically it was done for spiritual and identification purposes. (1st pic- Congo 2nd-Cameroon 3rd-Ethiopia)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1637833685503291392) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2023-03-20T15:09Z 1.1M followers, 1.1M engagements


"Queen Ranavalona III was the last sovereign of the kingdom of Madagascar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1957021942864654402) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-08-17T10:09Z 1.1M followers, 81.2K engagements


"The Slave Bible How The Bible was Selectively Edited to Instill Obedience"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1964335277700501860) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-09-06T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 60K engagements


"Michael Jackson in the studio with his cousin Stevie Wonder 1975"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1714115335345864970) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2023-10-17T03:05Z 1.1M followers, 37.3M engagements