Posts Tagged ‘Americas’

Oak Bluffs – Summer’s Home For Elite Blacks

Posted in African American, Black Blog Posts, Community, History, News, The Americas on September 15th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment
Home of the black elites

Washington Post Staff Writer DeNeen L. Brown wrote an interesting? August 20, 2009 About how Americas Elite blacks are flocking to Martha's Vineyard to take their annual holidays. Over the 4 page web article. Brown highlights the fact that this isn't a new phenomenon, but a generational thing. Black families have been attracted to the ...

12 Things The Negro Must Do

Posted in African American, Community, History, Men, Politics, Racism, Slavery, The Americas, Women on March 30th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment
Nannie Burroughs

Found an Interesting post today called 12 Things The Negro Must Do – How Not To Become Scapegoats For Degenerate Black Community Behavior. It was written in around the turn of the last century by a woman called Nannie Helen Burroughs. Nannie Helen Burroughs - Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) was an educator, orator, religious leader and businesswoman who ...

Is marriage outdated?

Posted in African on March 25th, 2009 by admin – 1 Comment
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[poll id="3"] Every day I trawl the web looking for interesting articles to bring to your screen. Tonight I happened to chance across an article called... " Do we need Black Mariage Day?" Personally, & I have to be honest here, I hadn't actually heard of the initiative and so proceeded to read the whole article. The author made ...

Guyana News – Weekly Roundup

Posted in African, Caribbean, Community, Education, Media, The Americas on March 18th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment
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Top Guyana Award For West Indies Batsman CARIBWORLDNEWS.COM - Jackson Heights,NY,USA CaribWorldNews, GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Weds. Mar. 18, 2009: West Indies batsman and former skipper, Shiv Chanderpaul, is set to be bestowed with a Guyana ... See all stories on this topic A history of events of CLICO Guyana Caribbean Net News - Georgetown,Cayman Islands CLICO Guyana established ...

African Medicine; The E-book

Posted in African on March 10th, 2009 by Iesha – 3 Comments
African Medicine; Book Cover

AFRICAN MEDICINE The E-Book This holistic health guide is the first book ever to disclose the closely guarded healing secrets of Yoruba priests. It covers the history, methods, and healing treatments of a 10,000 year old West African Tradition. This amazing book consolidates African Spiritual Science and holistic healing into something comprehensive and usable everyday to help one ...

Pioneering African American Cartoonists

Posted in African American, Arts, Books, History on March 7th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment
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During the segregated years of the 1900 through 1960s America, the Black Press offered comic strips that featured African American heroes & heroines in a wide variety of life situations. These characters were not confined to gritty 'inner-city' stories, poor 'ghetto' life or as one dimensional comic relief as today . Just as the 'mainstream' carried ...

Black Canadians – An overview

Posted in History, Politics, The Americas on March 6th, 2009 by Maurice2014 – 2 Comments
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Black Canadians in Canada: Total Population of Canada: 30+,000,000 Number of Black People living in Canada: 670,000 Percentage of Canadian Population that's Black: 2% Percentage of the Black Canadian Population living in: - Toronto - 47% - Montreal - 20% - Ottawa - 6% - Vancouver - 3% - Halifax - 2% Where Black Canadians ...

Black Soldiers in the British Army – John Ellis

Posted in African, African American, Black Britain, Caribbean, Europe, History, War on March 2nd, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

It would of course be easy to leave such men as

Parallel Lives of Africans and African-Americans By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo

Posted in African, African American on March 2nd, 2009 by Iesha – Be the first to comment
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A look at the position of the average African and average African-American revealed some surprising parallels. For the purpose of simplifying this piece, I will generalize even when I know there are exceptions. I also know Alexander Dumas warned that all generalizations are dangerous, so don’t snap as you read. Treat this as an honest start of an authentic dialogue which all Africans in the Diaspora must have.

Hitler’s Forgotten Holocaust Victims

Posted in African, Black Blog Posts, Black Britain, Community, Education, Entertainment, Europe, Food, History, Job Vacancies, Men, Military, Notices, Racism, The Americas, Twitter Digest, War, Women on March 1st, 2009 by admin – 1 Comment

Like many West European nations, Germany established colonies in Africa in the late 1800s in what later became Togo, Cameroon, Namibia, and Tanzania.


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