Aaron Goodelman (913), all in one DYK nomination: Did you know... that the 1935 New York anti-lynching exhibitions included Death (modeled after the lynching of George Hughes), Necklace (by Aaron Goodelman), This Is Her First Lynching, and The Law Is Too Slow (pictured), and were intended to support anti-lynching legislation, while earlier similar proposed legislation was supported by the NAACP using the lynching of Henry Lowry? (37,477 total views)
Lynching of Leonard Woods: Did you know... that the Lynching of Leonard Woods took place on the platform from which days before US Route 23, connecting Virginia and Kentucky, had been ceremoniously opened?
Lynching of Owen Flemming: Did you know... that when the sheriff in Helena, Arkansas, was asked to arrest Owen Flemming, an African-American man accused of killing a white overseer on June 8, 1927, he allegedly said "I'm busy. Just go ahead and lynch him"? (12,119)
Lynching of John Carter: Did you know... that some 5,000 white people looted a Black church for wood to burn the lynched body of John Carter, a Black man who was hanged and shot in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1927? (16,000)
L. Zenobia Coleman: Did you know... that L. Zenobia Coleman, a librarian at Tougaloo College for 36 years, "paved the way for Black librarians"? (1,380)
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: Did you know... that in The Age of Phillis (2020), American poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers "fills in the gaps" in a white woman's biography of Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)? (1,147)
Minnie Lou Crosthwaite Did you know... that Minnie Lou Crosthwaite, the first Black woman to pass the teacher exam in Nashville's segregated school system, and Minnie Lee Crosthwaite, one of Kansas City's first Black social workers, both attended Fisk University? (1,560)
Real Life (novel): Did you know... that Real Life, Brandon Taylor's debut novel, is an American campus novel about a gay, black doctoral student in a mostly white PhD program? (1,679)
The 1619 Project: Did you know... that The New York Times's The 1619 Project, which aims to re-examine slavery in the United States, was developed in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center for use in schools? (4,502)
Clyde Foster: Did you know... that Clyde Foster (pictured), a mathematician with NASA, persuaded former Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun to support a computer science program at historically black Alabama A&M University? (6,528)
Abdallah Oumbadougou: Did you know... that Abdallah Oumbadougou, the "godfather of all the present-day Tuareg musicians in Niger", distributed illegal cassette tapes of banned ishumar music while in exile from 1984 to 1995? (2,059)
Tomas Diagne: Did you know... that Senegalese turtle biologist Tomas Diagne drove 1,200 miles (1,900 km) to pick up the carcass of a Nubian flapshell turtle? (1,272)
Violet Dias Lannoy: Did you know... that Mozambique-born Violet Dias Lannoy, called "the lost Goan/Indian/African novelist" by Peter Nazareth, came from a Goan family, worked with Mahatma Gandhi, and hung out with Richard Wright? (2,240)
Douga: Did you know... that the Mandinka douga, the "dance of the vulture" described in 20th-century African literature, may go back to Sundiata, and reach across to American Gullah culture, buck dance, and the minstrel show? (1,366)
The Black Cloth: Did you know... that the folk tales in Bernard Binlin Dadié's The Black Cloth express the "African sense of community" and the "wisdom of an ordered society" in the face of French claims of moral superiority? (1,384)
Petro Kilekwa: Did you know... that Petro Kilekwa from Zambia was enslaved because his mother could not pay the ransom – eight yards (7.3 m) of calico cloth? (2,222)
Ernst Dammann: Did you know... that Ernst Dammann, an early member of the Nazi Party, was a founding figure of African studies in East Germany – together with Walter Markov, a communist who spent much of the Nazi era in prison? (1,861)
Paul Pascon: Did you know... that archaeologist Paul Pascon was a Pied-Noir whose devotion to the situation of Moroccan peasants led him to take Moroccan citizenship? (1,312)
Tasghîmût: Did you know... that much of the stone material studied by archeologists at the 12th-century fortress of Tasghîmût near Marrakesh has since been hauled off by local builders? (1,919 and 1,385)
Gara Medouar: Did you know... that a film set for The Mummy was built at Gara Medouar (pictured), an 11th-century fortress on a rock plateau near Sijilmasa, Morocco? (12,421)
Ali Eisami: Did you know... that Ali Eisami (pictured), a Kanuri man, dictated his memoirs of his captivity to German missionary and linguist Sigismund Koelle, and helped him produce a Kanuri grammar? (6,760)
Adriaan de Bruin: Did you know... that Adriaan de Bruin was enslaved in Africa but ended up in Hoorn in the Dutch Republic, where he married a local woman and ran a tobacco shop? (12,327)
Redoshi: Did you know... that Redoshi (pictured), a West African woman who lived in Alabama and died in 1937, was the last known survivor of the transatlantic slave trade? (16,734)
Charlton Miner Lewis: Did you know... that Charlton Miner Lewis was a lawyer before becoming an English professor at Yale, and the first judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets? (360)
Reuben Bright: Did you know... that Edwin Arlington Robinson's 1897 poem "Reuben Bright", considered good teaching material for English classes, featured a "cow-killer converted" in a realistic, vernacular narrative? (1,526)
Tugelbay Sydykbekov: Did you know... that Kyrgyzstani author Tugelbay Sydykbekov won the Stalin Prize in 1949 for the novel People of our Time, which simultaneously embraced Soviet-style communism and traditional culture including Islam? (1,578)
Gwerz Skolan: Did you know... that the Breton saint Goulven of Léon may have been confused with a legendary murderer and rapist featured in the poem "Gwerz Skolan", giving rise to a number of place names with elements of both individuals? (2955)
The Equatorie of the Planetis: Did you know... that the 14th-century manuscript The equatorie of the planetis, sometimes ascribed to Chaucer, describes an equatorium (example pictured)?
Among the Lost: Did you know... that in Among the Lost, a 2018 novel by Mexican author Emiliano Monge, the victims of human trafficking are described in language borrowed from Dante's Inferno and the testimony of real-life people? (2,071)
Evangelical Lutheran Church (Enkhuizen): Did you know... that Danish oxen traders brought Lutheranism to the Dutch city of Enkhuizen, including through the establishment of an Evangelical Lutheran Church there in 1605? (1,260)
Islam in the Arctic: Did you know... that despite an extensive history of Islam in the Arctic, the first mosque (pictured) in the Canadian Arctic was only built in 2010? (14,509)
Cueva de Bolomor: Did you know... that Neanderthals in the Valencian Valldigna valley hauled young elephants up a 100-metre (330 ft) climb to the Bolomor Cave, for use as food? (2,104)
Cova Foradà: Did you know... that a Neanderthal man, whose upper jaw was found in the Cova Foradà in Spain, used a toothpick because he had sore gums? (6,031)
El Salt: Did you know... that 50,000 years ago a Neanderthal defecated on an old campfire in El Salt, Spain, and proved the Neanderthal diet also included plants? (7,528) (imagine if they hadn't taken substituted “defecated” for "pooped")
