REF: JSC 247-37-003 ONBOARD PHOTO STS-47 ONBOARD PHOTO VIEW. ASTRONAUT MAE JEMISON, MISSION SPECIALIST WORKING IN SL-J MODULE. Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-47) onboard photo of Astronaut Mae Jemison working in Spacelab-J module. Mae Jemison was the first African-American woman in space. Spacelab-J is a combined National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) and NASA mission. The objectives included life sciences, microgravity and technology research Image Number: 9265609 Date Taken: September 1992

Hello! Bonjour! Guten tag! Hola! (Insert a myriad other hellos). My name is Lacoste Alligator, and I am going to be writing a sort of review-type thing about my car. So this is the first time I’m doing something of the sort, and if it goes well, it might not be the last time. But oh well, let’s see how good of a review I can do at 2:32:57 in the morning.

In this post I am going to examine the descendants of Shem and Ham according to the Bible. I will be exploring oral accounts and scientific and visual evidence of who they were and where they lived…

African American man standing in a slightly worn sack suit and white shirt. c.1890 For more on African American experience and achievements in the U.S. and elsewhere visit Discover Black Heritage , a travel guide to black history and culture

The Damen Shipyards Galati-built tugs, SL Gabon and SL Libreville, were welcomed to the SMIT Lamnalco fleet at a ceremony at Port-Gentil, Gabon last week. These new Stan 4011...

For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in the Civil War era. However, David Williams suggests that this portrayal marginalizes the role that African American slaves played in freeing themselves. At the Civil War's outset, Lincoln made clear his intent was to save the Union rather than free slaves - despite his personal distaste for slavery, he claimed no authority to interfere with the institution. By the second year of the war, though, when the Union army was in desperate need of black support, former slaves who escaped to Union lines struck a bargain: they would fight for the Union only if they were granted their freedom. Williams importantly demonstrates that freedom was not simply the absence of slavery but rather a dynamic process enacted by self-emancipated African American refugees, which compelled Lincoln to modify his war aims and place black freedom at the center of his wartime policies.

When Haiti unveiled Le Negré Marron statue in 1967, it became a symbol for freedom of black people across the world. The sculpture is a reminder of the rebellion against the French that set the Haitians free.

View across to Spandau Kop from the Valley of Desolation.

This is an amazing photo my dad took in Sierra Leone. So simple. Yet so much to this photo. :)