Black Lore
Books, tales, events & figures of the diaspora. 310 entries and growing — search above or browse the shelves.
Books & Literature
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The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
Kobe Bryant · 2018
Love Trilogy
bell hooks
Of One Blood
Pauline Hopkins
Who Will Bell the Cat?
Patricia McKissack
White Noise
Suzan-Lori Parks
The Clone Codes
Patricia McKissack · 1994
Days Of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States
Patricia McKissack · 2002
Contending Forces
Pauline Hopkins · 1900
Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told By A Freeman Of Color
Patricia McKissack · 1998
Color Me Dark
Patricia McKissack · 2000
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois · 1903
Flossie & the Fox
Patricia McKissack · 1986
Folktales & Fables
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Events
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1954 · United States
Soweto uprising
1976 · South Africa
Freedom Riders
1961
Scramble for Africa
1885
Atlantic slave trade
Slave trade between Africa and the West
Birmingham campaign
American civil rights campaign in Alabama (1963)
Négritude
Cultural and political movement developed by a francophone African elite
apartheid
South African system of racial segregation
Back-to-Africa movement
Political movement in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries
Harlem Renaissance
1920s African-American cultural movement
Emancipation Proclamation
1862
Stono Rebellion
1739
Myth & Legend
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Yemowo
Water deity and wife of Ọbatala in Yoruba religion
Elegua
Deity of roads in some African religions
Bantu mythology
Bantu culture
San mythology
Religion and mythology
Oxalá
King of the Orisha in Yoruba religion
Petwo
Family of loa (spirits) in Haitian Vodou religion
Somali mythology
Paket kongo
Haitian spiritual objects
Rada loa
Major family of loa in Haitian Vodou
Boum'ba Maza
Group of powerful spirits in Vodou tradition
Aja
Orisha of whirlwinds and forests in the Yoruba religion
Haitian Vodoun Culture Language
Collection of loanwords