On Wednesday, February 24, BlackPast.org crossed the one million mark in unique visitors for 2016

Dr. Quintard Taylor

Dr. Quintard Taylor writes:

Folks:

Sometime on Wednesday, probably when I was in the operating room for eye surgery, BlackPast.org (www.blackpast.org)  crossed the one million mark in unique visitors for 2016.  In fact, in the four days since then, the website has seen another 84,000 visitors.

This is the earliest point in the year that the website has reached that level.  In 2015 it reached one million visitors on March 6.  In 2014 it reached that level on July 26.

In addition, we are getting a growing amount of international traffic.  According to Google, the following nations sent visitors to the website just ten minutes ago in this order:

United States

Canada

South Africa

France

Indonesia

Netherlands

Nigeria

United Kingdom

Dominican Republic

Ethiopia

Guam

Italy

Jamaica

Kenya

Philippines

Poland

South Korea

Colombia

Sweden

BlackPast.org continues to grow and you through your efforts have made that happen.  I am confident it will grow more rapidly as we strengthen our internal organization, a process that has already begun with the addition of Chieko Phillips as our first executive director and with the extraordinary work of Jackson Fish Market in redesigning the website.  Ultimately that means we will serve millions more people around the world with our rich and continuously growing content of African American and global African history.

Quintard Taylor

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Thanks Bill, for reposting this and thus spreading the information about BlackPast.org.  [Dr. Quintard Taylor]