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Unpacking the Berlin Conference: A Blueprint for Black Dispossession What follows is not just a history lesson—it’s an excavation. In peeling back the layers of willful amnesia and cognitive dissonance, we revisit the Berlin Conference of 1884, a calculated gathering of European powers where Africa was carved up like a pie—without a single African present. This wasn’t diplomacy. It was …
In a rural Maryland community, a historic Black church brings a reckoning over a racist history that is still prevalent today. Serving a Black community in Garrett County, Maryland at the turn of the 20th century, the once known as Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, or Bethel AME disappeared almost entirely in the span of a few short decades. Seated …
About Us | InnerKwest: Relentless in Truth, Redemptive in Justice Updated: August 25, 2025 At InnerKwest, we are far more than guardians of history—we are committed agents of rectification, investigators of truth, and architects of a redemptive and just future. Our mission is relentless in its pursuit to uncover hidden narratives, rectify distortions, and empower communities with revelatory insight that …
In a rural Maryland community, a historic Black church brings a reckoning over a racist history that is still prevalent today. Serving a Black community in Garrett County, Maryland at the turn of the 20th century, the once known as Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, or Bethel AME disappeared almost entirely in the span of a few short decades. Seated …
Have you ever questioned where white European interest imposing colonization on Africa originated? This imperial initiative was conceived and accelerated at the Berlin conference of European countries. Put in more precise terms the action is called unprovoked, violent expansionism. Europe and America left the confines of their territories and descended on a continent to rape and pillage resources of which …
The history books rarely give reference to the captured Africans that vigorously fought back, but there was one group the slave masters wish they had left in Africa, meet the Akan people. The Akan are a meta-ethnicity living in the southern regions of present-day Ghana and Ivory Coast in West Africa. The Akan language (also known as Twi/Fante) is a …
Establishing the “1776 Commission” is the latest effort to justify America’s indelible slave economy origins and present-day persistent, rancid-racist ideology. Any ill-conceived notions that excites Trump’s under-educated, racist voting block will be employed while attempting to derail the upcoming 2020 elections. Trump recently announced several measures aimed at promoting what he called “patriotic education” while blasting progressive efforts at re-examining …
Posterity demands from time to time that we dust off unsolicited and unimaginable past facts. In this chapter in time we thought it would be intriguing to our readers to review some of the famous brands we still see and use in all segments of industrial enterprise. People often choose to buy from brands that have been around for ages …
Did you ever wonder if the Greenwood district of Tulsa was the only prosperous African-American community? We have taken the time to search and compile the history of other such enclaves. The historical facts unveil a minimum of 7 additional African-American communities that were thriving and self-determined to succeed and succeed they did. The following revelations illustrate Black people can …
