So, on January 1, 1991, Charles Isbell decided to do something proactive about it; namely, to begin posting a This Week In Black History calendar of interesting facts about Black History. The postings have become fairly popular over the years and are redistributed to hundreds of thousands of users in various forms--credited or not--including the Electronic Urban Report, various in-company mailing lists, newsgroups and educational institutions from K-12 on through to college.

Over the years, Charles received many, many requests for information on this person or that person, this event or that event. Just as importantly, users often offered to provide corrections, pointers, facts and even written essays. In late 1995, Charles and "Mellow" Mike Bowen (another opinionated net.personality), decided that enough was enough: it was time for This Week In Black History to grow up, or at least make it on the Web. Eventually, that collaboration grew to include others, most notably Gavin Bell. He and Charles have come together to create seditionists.org.

The goal of seditionists.org is to expand on this initial work, and to become the central spot for those who wish to discover and create Black content on the Web. It is our hope that we have created something others will want to contribute to, so that in the years to come we will have a continually expanding source of facts and pointers to Black history, culture, and more.