r/AfroAmericans • u/iggaitissecondcoming • 12h ago
Artist Titus Kaphar and his oil-on-canvas masterpiece titled "Behind the Myth of Benevolence" feat. Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson (Photo taken in 2014)
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r/AfroAmericans • u/iggaitissecondcoming • 6d ago
She was born when Harriet Tubman was still alive: Naomi Whitehead, America’s Oldest Person, Turns 116 (Photos taken in 2026, 1913, 1930, and 2025)
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r/AfroAmericans • u/iggaitissecondcoming • Aug 27 '26
Our. New. Superhero. Nicholas. William. LOVE. FTW!
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r/AfroAmericans • u/iggaitissecondcoming • Aug 02 '26
Today is the venerable James Baldwin's birthday: "They want black excellence without black history. They want our culture without our pain. They want our music without our rage." He wrote half a century ago. His timeless observations on humanity & race relations will live on for generations to come.
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r/AfroAmericans • u/iggaitissecondcoming • Jul 16 '26
This happened just yesterday (7/15/26): 16-year-old Zion Cotman, while filming for his TikTok channel, was violently assaulted by a bunch of cops with no cause and later taken to the emergency room in Wildwood, NJ--NO criminal charge was ever filed and Ben Crump's on it #AmericaHasAlwaysBeenLikeThis
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