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Did you know Avatar was created based on the culture of Nilotic people of Africa?

“The Nilotic people of Eastern South Sudan, Western Ethiopia, and Northern Kenya inspired Avatar. The Nilotic people are the world’s tallest and darkest people.” Avatar (also known as James Cameron’s Avatar) is a 2009 American film directed by James Cameron. In the mid-twentieth century, mankind colonize Pandora, a lush livable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star …

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Meet self-educated African American Architect who designed Washington, DC in two days

Many people think, Washington, D.C., the U.S. headquarters. Originally designed by the white famous architects Pierre Charles L’Enfant, Andrew Ellicot finished the project in 1792 after the former left the building. U.S capital would not be the same if it wasn’t for Benjamin Banneker, the Black architect hired by George Washington, the first President of the United States, to design …

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Henry Box Brown, enslaved black man who mailed himself to freedom in a wooden box in 1849

Henry “Box” Brown was born enslaved in Louisa County, Virginia in 1815. When he was 15, he was sent to Richmond to work in a tobacco factory. His life was filled with unrewarding drudgery, though he had it better than most of his enslaved peers. The loss of his freedom prevented him from living with his wife, Nancy, who was …

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