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What day is World Black Day?

We know that the world is made up of many kinds of color of the human race **** the same composition, and such as black white yellow and so on, and black people in recent history, have been a lot of oppression and persecution, with the development of society, and the pursuit of human rights, black people's day such a festival has been established, then it is in which day?

The first Sunday of January in the Gregorian calendar every year

In 1441, black people were trafficked through the Sahara trade routes, the Nile River, and the Indian Ocean to southern Europe, the Arab world, Persia, South Asia, and other places. In those days, because productivity was so low, the slave trade was common, not unique to blacks, and there were whites who were sold into slavery to blacks. According to statistics, black tribal slave-hunting wars in the 400 years of slavery, black Africans were killed tens of millions; Santo Domingo Island in the first half of the eighteenth century *** imported slaves 2.8 million people, and only 65,000 people left in 1976, an average of more than 40,000 deaths per year.

There are many other tragic histories of the black man and so on, and while economic exchanges between the countries of the world are developing rapidly, cultural understanding and communication seem to be progressing very slowly. In addition to language, habits, color differences, the difference between rich and poor people are also very easy to produce a lot of irrational associations and prejudice, so in the Organization of African Unity endorsed by the African Cultural Institute to determine the first Sunday in January each year for the establishment of the Black Day. The purpose of Black Day is to publicize the traditional culture of black people and to call on all people in the world to identify with black people.