America's longest-serving prisoner in solitary has conviction quashed. Albert Woodfox, right, and Herman Wallace in Angola prison, in Louisiana. Woodfoxâs 1972 murder conviction was overturned when a US appeals court ruled his conviction was secured through racially discriminatory means.
Next, the Olmec created a complex drainage system. These inventions helped the Olmec survive. In addition to their inventions, they also understood many things in life, such as the concept of zero ,linear time, and gravity.
The Black Olmecs were the first to build Pyramids in Mexico, although these were built of mud and one was more cone-shaped then actually pyramidal. The Olmecs apart from carving 22 colossal stone heads dating to about 1100 B.C, also created thousands of work of art throughout Mesoamerica.frican hairstyles such as cornrows are found on many of the Olmecs terracotta found in Mexico. Both kinky hair carved into one of the colossal stone heads of basalt, as well as the cornrowed style wearing tassels (see African Presence in Early America, by Ivan Van Sertima; Transaction Publishers), have been found.