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Our History Matters is a comprehensive knowledge and information enterprise that promotes Africa and African-descended peoples globally. This will be done by enlightening, explaining, expatiating, enquiring, and educating about Global African conditions.
OHM is dedicated to rewriting, rethinking, and reinterpreting the negative, one-sided, and partial information on Africa and its sons and daughters that has passed for knowledge for centuries. It is to reorder the priorities of the African world by liberating the mind. OHM will use history as a way to interpret the present and create the future.
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"We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey."
John Hope
June 2, 1868 - February 22, 1936
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John Hope
Educator | Activist | First Black President of Morehouse College and Atlanta University
John Hope was an African American educator who, together with W.E.B. DuBois and William Monroe Trotter, founded the Niagara Movement in 1905 to end legal segregation, agitate for equal rights, and fight the disenfranchisement of Black people. He eventually became the first African American president of Morehouse College and, later, then Atlanta University.
Heed John Hope’s words by choosing the cyber bypath to continue to illuminate the glorious history of Africans in America. It is a comprehensive knowledge and information enterprise whose primary purpose is to promote Africa and African-descended peoples globally. This will be done by enlightening, explaining, expatiating, enquiring and educating about Global African conditions.
OHM is therefore dedicated to rewriting, rethinking, and reinterpreting the negative, one-sided, and partial information on Africa and its sons and daughters that has passed for knowledge for centuries. It is to reorder the priorities of the African world by liberating the mind and re-centering the African voice in the global marketplace in an effort to inform choices for the future.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
A triangular trade pattern emerged which connected the Americas, Europe, and Africa. In addition, trade and other incursions brought other parts of the world into this pattern, thereby cementing one large global network of societies.
At the root of this relationship was the economic imperative, and at its root was the trade in human cargo. This trade, and the system of slavery it established around the world, held the globe together like glue.
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Learn about pivotal events and figures that have shaped the African diaspora and continue to influence the present.
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