Posted on 28 December 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 26 October 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 21 October 2011.
Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh (19 October 1944 – 11 September 1987), was a Jamaican reggae musician who was a core member of the band The Wailers (1963–1974), and who afterward had a successful solo career as well as being a promoter of Rastafari. Genres: Reggae, ska, rocksteady, R&B Peter Tosh (also known as Stepping Razor) ...
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Posted on 20 October 2011.
The National Portrait Gallery houses a unique collection of all forms of portraiture of the people who have made or who are currently contributing to British history and culture. With more than 1.8 million visitors each year, the Gallery is one of the country’s most important and popular galleries. Faith, Slavery and Identity Programme Internship Fixed-term for ...
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Posted on 03 October 2011.
(NEW BEDFORD, Mass.) — It took nearly two hundred years but New Bedford now has a lasting tribute to Captain Paul Cuffe in the form of a park, dedicated today in his honor at the southern foot of historic Johnny Cake Hill. Paul Cuffe (1759-1817) was the free-born son of an African father and a Native ...
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Posted on 24 September 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 21 September 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 16 September 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 15 September 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 21 July 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 05 July 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 01 July 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 17 June 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 01 June 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 31 May 2011.
Michael Healy -- Cabin-Boy who sailed on the American East Indian Clipper Jumna in England in 1854. He quickly became an expert Seaman, and rose to the Rank of Officer on Merchant vessels. He became the first African-American to Command a ship of the United States Government. Michael Augustine Healy (September 22, 1839 – August 30, 1904), ...
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Posted on 29 May 2011.
The Black Belt is a Region of the Southern United States. Although the term originally described the Prairies and dark soil of Central Alabama and Northeast Mississippi, it has long been used to describe a broad Agricultural Region in the American South characterized by a history of Plantation Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century, and a ...
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Posted on 04 May 2011.
When I was asked to review "The Slave Trade" By James Walvin, It was with some trepidation because I had read many books on the Slave Trade during my time as a student and expected some weighty and wordy tome. That would have to be waded through and then deciphered before I could even begin to think of writing ...
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Posted on 04 May 2011.
The story of the slaves in America begins with Christopher Columbus. His voyage to America was not financed by Queen Isabella, but by Luis de Santangelo, who advanced the sum of 17,000 ducats (about 5,000 pounds-today equal to 50,000 pounds) to finance the voyage, which began on August 3, 1492. Columbus was accompanied by five 'maranos' ...
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Posted on 11 November 2010.
Aminata Diallo, an 11-year-old child, is taken from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle — a string of slaves. Eventually, she arrives in South Carolina where she begins a new life as a slave. Years later, she finds freedom, serving the British in the ...
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Posted on 04 October 2010.
Eric Eustace Williams (25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981) was the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian. Eric Williams was a descendant from the de Boissiere family which made its fortune trading African slaves illegally after ...
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Posted on 26 September 2010.
CLR (Cyril Lionel RobertJames was a Marxist writer, political commentator, and Cricket lover. One of his most famous works is "The Black Jacobins"; a biography of "Tousaint Louverture" the Haitian Revoloutionary. Born in Trinidad, he attended the Queen's Royal College on the island before becoming a cricket journalist and also writing fiction. In 1932, ...
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Posted on 23 September 2010.
This is a Contributed Article by Minna Salami from http://www.msafropolitan.com/ I like the perspective that India.Arie and Akon have in 'I am not my hair'.It's not a new song, most of you have heard it, danced to it, chanted it, maybe even as a spiritual practice of sort! Jokes aside, a very powerful message often goes missed in ...
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Posted on 16 September 2010.
The Late Bernie Grant was Britain's foremost black spokesman, a champion of social and racial justice, and a pioneer for diversity. Born in Guyana, and resident in Britain since 1963, Bernie Grant worked as a British Railways clerk,he was also National Union of Public Employees area officer, and as a partisan of the Black Trade Unionists ...
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Posted on 14 September 2010.
There has been a Black Presence in the British Isles since Roman time. In more recent Centuries the black presence is well documented should you care to look for it. Teachers TV offers this Introductory video, which you can download from their site to start you in your investigations. Historian Tony Warner explains how the ...
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Posted on 06 September 2010.
Joseph Emidy (also spelt Emedy or Emedee) had been second violin in the orchestra of the Lisbon opera house before being pressed into the Royal Navy in 1795. Born in West Africa in c.1775 JOSEPH ANTONIO EMIDY was enslaved as a child by Portuguese traders, taken to Brazil and subsequently Portugal where he became a virtuoso ...
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