100 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE NEGRO. By Henry Louis Gates Jr. Pantheon. 476 pages. $40. Here are a few of the “100 Amazing Facts About the Negro” that Henry Louis Gates Jr. brings to our attention in ...

(The Root) — In 1934, Joel Augustus Rogers, a highly regarded journalist in the black press, published a remarkable little book of 51 pages titled 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof ...

Here are a few of the “100 Amazing Facts About the Negro” that Henry Louis Gates Jr. brings to our attention in his new book: • Nearly 8 million white Americans have hidden African heritage. That ...

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Pantheon). This compendium takes its title from a 1934 book by the Jamaican-born American journalist and historian Joel A. Rogers, which ...

1. Which journalist was among the first to bring black history facts to the masses? -- 2. How many Africans were taken to the United States during the entire history of the slave trade? -- 3. Who was ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. She was also the founding editor of TIME’s history section. The scholar is busy with a new book, 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro, a forthcoming anthology and the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The person who spearheaded “the first, black initiated ‘back to Africa’ effort in U.S. history,” according to the historian Donald R. Wright, was also the first free African American to visit the ...