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Boston, MA -- Since it's founding in 1997 by a pair of self-avowed "nerds" from MIT and Boston University, BlackFacts.com has been the longest running data-driven repository of Black history on the internet. Over its 20+ year history, this online project, founded on the concept that there were black technologists who could give back to their community, has grown from a simple labor-of-love, to become #1 on all 3 major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing), having its own Amazon Alexa(TM) Skill for the Black History Fact-Of-The-Day, and garnering millions of national and international visitors and over 100,000 followers via social media and email.
Yet despite all of that, BlackFacts.com was still a relatively unknown entity. The founders decided to change that fact for 2018. Over the course of the past 6 months BlackFacts.com has made drastic changes to what was once a text-based web site and email service that simply provided black history Fact-Of-The-Day. They have expanded their database content - with over 26,000 articles and growing. The website has been revamped with images, videos, games/quizzes, speeches and more. Every article is indexed and cross referenced with machine learning to identify related people, places and events. New content and new features are being added daily to allow for a rich user experience and to bring Black history to life.
