John Ware (c. 1845 – 12 September 1905) was an African-American and later Black Canadian cowboy, best remembered for his ability to ride and train horses and for bringing the first cattle to southern Alberta in 1882, helping to create that province's important ranching industry. Ware was born into Slavery in South Carolina. After the American ...

Wallace Fard Muhammad was a Minister and founder of the Nation of Islam. He established the Nation of Islam's first Mosque in Detroit, Michigan in 1930, and ministered his distinctive religion there for three years, before mysteriously disappearing in June 1934. { The Al-Rashid Mosque in Edmonton Alberta, Canada was expected to be the first Mosque ...

Wed, May 3 1995 - Guardian In the early years of the war Britain made frequent requests for help from its colonies. One man to respond was Billy Strachan. Like most Jamaicans at the time he regarded Britain as his homeland, and enlisting it seemed a natural option. "I went to the British Army camp in ...

Dear Friends, I hope you will be interested in an event that is taking place in two weeks time, on Tuesday 8th November at the Institute of Education in the University of London. The general picture of Black British history in our schools and universities is still very bleak. There are only two universities where we know ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ras_Tafari Haile Selassie I (Ge'ez: , "Power of the Trinity") (23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975), born Tafari Makonnen, was Ethiopia's Regent from 1916 to 1930, and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. The Heir to a Dynasty that traced its origins to the 13th Century, and from there, by Tradition, back to King ...

lsrael's ties with South Africa seem to be especially disturbing to many who follow Israel's international activities. Perhaps it is natural that Israel has been castigated more harshly for its arms sales to South Africa than for its sales to other countries: first, because there has been for a decade an arms embargo against South ...

Revealed: how Israel helped Amin to take power By Richard Dowden Sunday, 17 August 2003 When Radio Uganda announced at dawn on 25 January 1971 that Idi Amin was Uganda's new ruler, many people suspected that Britain had a hand in the coup. However, Foreign Office papers released last year point to a different conspirator: Israel. When Radio Uganda ...

A plausible etymology proposes that the term Somali is derived from the Arabic for "Wealthy" (dhawamaal), referring to Somali riches in Livestock. The history of Islam in the Horn of Africa is as old as the religion itself. The early persecuted Muslims fled to the Axumite port city of Zeila in present-day Somalia to seek ...

Alexandre Dumas was the Grandson of a French Nobleman, and a Haitian slave. http://www.gradesaver.com/author/alexandre-dumas/ When a mulatto general from Napoleon's army retired to the small northeastern town of Villers-Cotterets, France, little did the natives know that their town was now destined to become the birthplace of the great Alexandre Dumas. On July 24, 1802 the forty-four year ...

Italian Vogue apologizes for Slavery trend piece. Digs hole deeper: Periodically, fashion has its Zoolander moments—those idiotic decisions by arbiters of the industry that trivialize real human suffering for the sake of controversy. In the 2001 parody movie there was the homeless-inspired Derelicte clothing line. In real life, there was the Duncan Quinn ad with the woman ...

http://credomutwa.com/about/biography-07/ http://credomutwa.com/about/ Credo Mutwa: Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, born on 21 July 1921 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa is a Zulu Sangoma (Traditional Healer) and High Sanusi. He is well known and respected for his work in nature conservation, and as an author of ground breaking books on African mythology and spiritual beliefs. Some of his work has led to ...

  Democracy is Overrated Why every developing nation, from Iraq to Africa, needs economic freedom before political freedom By Oliver Harriehausen What does a developing nation need to become prosperous? International politics is dedicated to this question, and is usually answered when rich Western governments patronizingly announce a) what makes their country special, and b) why the poor countries ...

American Imperialism is a term referring to the political, economic, military and cultural influence of the United States. The concept of an American Empire was first popularized in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War of 1898 and the annexation of the Philippines. Thomas Jefferson, in the 1780s, awaited the fall of the Spanish empire: “… till ...

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/07/27 "US Wealth Gap Reflects Racism's Legacy" Published on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 by The Rachel Maddow Show

http://clutchmagonline.com/2011/06/is-hollywood-courting-slavery/ Is Hollywood Courting Slavery? Thursday Jun 16, 2011 – by Black Voices — Slave stories might become the new 'Black' in Hollywood. Today, the Shadow And Act film blog revealed that Paris-based Other Angle Pictures picked up a French slavery comedy for international distribution. ‘Case Départ’ is scheduled for a July 6 release in France and with the ...

Call for Papers Writing Slavery after Beloved Literature, Historiography, Criticism International Symposium Université de Nantes – France March 16-17, 2012 Can Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) be considered as a watershed in the contemporary representations of slavery and the slave trade, not only in the literary field, but also in historiography and Cultural Studies? This Symposium will attempt to assess whether this major ...

http://hubpages.com/hub/bloodlines "Credo Mutwa, the Official Historian of the Zulu Nation, told me how so many Black African leaders that were placed in Power after the Colonial Masters gave the Continent 'independence', came from the Bloodlines of African Kings and Queens who claimed to descend from the same 'Gods' as their White counterparts." -David Icke, "Tales from ...

A strong argument for returning the focus of postcolonial studies to its roots as a tool for political activism among people of the third world. The Politics of Postcolonialism: Empire, Nation and Resistance Rumina Sethi   Released July 4th 2011   PB / £ 17.99 / 9780745323633 / 215mm x 135mm / 192 pp   Rumina Sethi challenges postcolonial critics to put their ...

  Some authorities argue that the very idea of Race should be abandoned. They say that there are no pure Races, that all so-called Races are the result of intermarriage between people of different stocks. There is only one Race, the Human Race. In the United States the division of the population into White and Black ...

Venetian Ceruse, also known as Spirits of Saturn, was a 16th Century cosmetic used as a skin whitener. It was in great demand and considered the best available at that time. The product contained a pigment composed of white lead, which was understood to cause lead poisoning that would eventually damage the user's skin complexion ...

- This is basically a racist decision. They're in essence saying that it's OK if the people being abused are non-White. If the Government of Great Britain were to do to its citizens what the Government of Bahrain did to theirs, I doubt very much the World would stand by and award Britain a World ...

--- “The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized” Gil Scott Heron, the Musician, Poet, and Author famous for the saying “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” passed away on May 27th 2011. Here’s a Poem written by Lupe Fiasco in his honor which I believe will ring true with many. Wasalu Muhammad Jaco, better known by ...

HAIR: Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen Give me down to there, hair, shoulder length or longer Here baby, there, momma, everywhere, daddy, daddy Hair, flow it, show it Long as God can grow, my hair --- Afro-Textured Hair: Afro-Textured Hair is a term used to refer to the typical texture of Black African hair that ...

Dambisa Moyo is a Zambian-born economist who says aid is killing Africa. In her new book, Dead Aid, she argues that official aid is easy money that fosters corruption and distorts economies, creating a culture of dependency and economic laziness. Moyo argues that aid bad for Africa, and for Africans. In her opinion Aid keeps Africa and ...