Posted on 27 January 2012.
Remembering a Legend: Gil Scott Heron Imagine it: You’re writing a piece about the key figures in recent black history. About black liberation, about the great battles against civil oppression; the 60s riots, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Apartheid and Nelson Mandela. The tragedies and the victories. The more you write about those original great ...
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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 24 October 2011.
Secret History of the Black Pin Up: From Tease to Sleaze I recently wrote about the seemingly lackluster existence of Black pin up models from the 1950's... here and here. A collector, historian, and publisher by the name of Jim Linderman contacted me and divulged that he'd written and self-published a book detailing the life and ...
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Posted on 21 October 2011.
Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an African American Muslim Minister and Human Rights Activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the Rights of African Americans, a man who indicted White America in the harshest terms for its ...
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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 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 29 September 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africville Africville was a small community located on the southern shore of Bedford Basin, in the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. During the 20th Century, the City of Halifax began to encroach on the southern shores of Bedford Basin, and the community was eventually included as part of the city through Municipal Amalgamation. Africville ...
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Posted on 12 September 2011.
Henry "Harry" Winston Jerome, OC (September 30, 1940 – December 7, 1982) was a Canadian track and field runner. He was the Grandson of John Howard, a Railway Porter who represented Canada in the 1912 Summer Olympics. Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, he moved to North Vancouver at age 12. In 1970 he was made an ...
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Posted on 12 September 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pierpoint Richard Pierpoint (Senegal 1744 - Canada 1838), also known as Black Dick and Captain Dick, was born about 1744 in Bondu, Senegal. When he was about sixteen he was captured and sold as a Slave. He survived the crossing of the Atlantic and was sold in New York to a British Officer named Pierpoint. It was ...
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Posted on 04 August 2011.
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 ...
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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 04 July 2011.
1861: Anderson Ruffin Abbott (7 April 1837 – 29 December 1913) was the first Black Canadian to become a physician after being granted a medical licence from the medical board of Upper Canada in 1861. 1862: Washington, D.C.: Freedmen's Hospital is established & is the only Federally-funded health care facility for Negroes in the nation. 1864: ...
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Posted on 24 June 2011.
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 ...
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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 18 April 2011.
August 9, 2010 - It's like the damn Planet of the Apes. Nothing Makes Sense, said Fox News Glenn Beck in a recent rant against President Obama and the America he has created. It was one of the angriest and most thinly veiled racist rants in recent history but simply a continuation of his ...
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Posted on 24 March 2011.
History classes in the National Curriculum will often gloss over slavery, idolize the efforts of William Wilberforce and study the methods of Martin Luther King’s struggle for civil rights. For many young Black people in Britain, one would argue that it is very easy for them to recall the names of US Civil Rights icons, better ...
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Posted on 07 October 2010.
http://malcolmxfiles.blogspot.com/ "Recently when I was blessed to make a religious pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca where I met many people from all over the world, plus spent many weeks in Africa trying to broaden my own scope and get more of an open mind to look at the problem as it actually is, one ...
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Posted on 07 October 2010.
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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 02 October 2010.
Black American GIs Park Street Bristol - During World War II, originally uploaded by brizzle born and bred.
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