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Zheng, who, according to reports, was almost seven feet tall, became a towering figure in both stature and status.

Between 1405 to 1431 Zheng sailed 7 voyages in his treasure ships to many countries in Asia and East Africa. He set up trade routes…

“Every time a rich man believes that he is better than a poor one, or a white man believes that he is better than a black one, then he is being arrogant. He is adopting the same hierarchical principles adopted by Satan in his ignorance."

The Native Heritage project is an ongoing effort to document the Native American people as they obtained surnames and entered recorded history in the continental United States. https://nativeheritageproject.com

A novel program hires Black trans chefs to provide free, home-cooked meals for the urban poor Black trans people who are living in a Crown Heights food desert.

There is the cultural revival of the Siletz traditional practices and rituals, as the author explains, "…like their traditional dance, nay-dosh, which is done in a traditional cedar dance house that seats a couple of hundred people, and the dancers…

Rainbow Home of Seven Sisters give shelter to transgender persons and survivors of human trafficking who are thrown out of their homes and society, give psychological support and educate them with life skills and soft skills in order to make them…

In her Ted talk called, Imagine if...You Create Your Value, Anglica Ross explains how she achieved success when she became a Buddhist. That decision enabled Miss Ross to recover from a suicide attempt her mother had requested because her religion…

The 1939 rebellion was ignited because white colonists had been working on a Negro Act of 1740 that would put more limits on Black enslaved people. It would be illegal for Black people to assemble on their own, grow their own food, learn to read, or…

This website by the activist Raquel Willis, is telling their stories in honor of fallen trans women of color.https://www.transobituariesproject.comhttps://www.out.com/print/2019/11/20/trans-obituaries-project-honoring-trans-women-color-lost-2019

Double jeopardy means BIPOC trans people typically strive to survive in the outside world and the LGBTQ community. Not only must they expend their energies defending themselves from anti-trans forces external to their communities. But they also must…