While we are all aware of the horrendous fires that are burning through the Amazon rainforest at an alarming rate, what many may NOT know is that central Africa is on fire too. The areas impacted are in the Congo Basin, which include parts of Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo,…
Apparently Black women in Omaha, Nebraska during the turn of the century were not with the shits and for that reason this #WCW post is dedicated to Goldie Williams and Minnie Bradley. Omaha’s Black population exploded after 1880 due to the job opportunities from the railroads where Black people found…
Back to School season is in full swing so Black Like Vanilla wanted to take this opportunity to highlight Black people working in education with our “Black to School” spotlight, highlighting all of those hard working black teachers, professors, administrators, counselors, and so on, who play such a crucial role…
This is a difficult part of our history where the heroes become the bad guys. Over 100 years later & this is still up to interpretation. That said, context matters. In regards to this incident, the backdrop is a Jim Crow Houston,TX, a hostile environment for black servicemen who had…
Back to School season is in full swing so Black Like Vanilla wanted to take this opportunity to highlight Black people working in education with our “Black to School” spotlight, highlighting all of those hard working black teachers, professors, administrators, counselors, and so on, who play such a crucial role…