How this Afro-Puerto Rican scholar became known as 'the Sherlock Holmes of Black history'

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How this Afro-Puerto Rican scholar became known as 'the Sherlock Holmes of Black history'

He was inspired to discover Black history after a 5th-grade teacher told him, “Black people have no history, no heroes, no great moments.” To prove his teacher and racist historians wrong, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, also known as Arthur Schomburg, began research on Africa and the diaspora and over time, he became known as 'the Sherlock...

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