Ndaté Yalla Mbodj, the last queen of Senegal who fought off the French, Arabs and Moors

Located in what is now Senegal and parts of Mauritania, the Waalo kingdom was one of the strongest and oldest kingdoms in Senegal existing since the 11th century. Before the invasion of the Arabs, the people practised the matrilineal system which gave women equal rights and privileges as men.

Do you want to go to this snake massage parlor in Egypt? [Video]

Why would anyone want to visit a specialist who is massaging people with snakes? According to the spa owner Sawat Sedki, snake massages offer both “physical and emotional” benefits to patrons if they are willing to overcome their fears and submit to the serpentine healing. Sedki is a snake massage therapist in his spa in Cairo, the capital city of Egypt.

Nicki Minaj agrees to pay $450k to Tracy Chapman to settle two-year-long copyright suit

Nicki Minaj has agreed to pay $450,000 to seasoned singer and songwriter Tracy Chapman to settle a copyright lawsuit the latter brought against her for allegedly sampling her song without her permission.

George Carruthers, the inventor whose camera took the first images of space

“He will be remembered as an amazing scientist, engineer, professor, and mentor.” Those were the words of the National Society of Black Physicists (NSP) when it announced the death of its member Dr George R. Carruthers, who passed away December 26 at a Washington hospital.

Wallace Henry Thurman the man who penned the phrase ‘the blacker the berry’

Wallace Henry Thurman was in the early 1930s acknowledged as one of the leading novelists, poets, critics, and playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance. Yet, he questioned the very existence of the movement.