Nzingha: Women in The Garvey Movement 2008

I was a ninth grade English-Language Arts teacher in Washington, DC when I overheard an intensifying debate between two students about the existence of unicorns.

"There ain't no such thing... it's made up."
"How do you know they never existed? The idea had to come from somewhere."

As I made a mental note to do a lesson on double-negatives, my philosophical training compelled me to turn this

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Black Musicians In Rock n Roll You Should Know

Chill out and rock out with these  Black  Rock n Roll musicians.

1. Ma Rainey


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Future Influences: Bessie Smith (who was her pupil), Janis Joplin


2. Bessie Smith


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Future Influences: Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin


3. Sister Rosetta

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Dr John Hope Franklin on meeting Dr W E B Du Bois

On the heels of the whitest Oscars since 1998, Patricia Arquette's semi-accidental rebel call for "gay people and people of color" to fight for women's rights, and a generally rising tide of consciousness about how minorities are treated in Hollywood, HBO announced that it will launch a new fellowship geared specifically towards diversity.

On Wednesday, the network that currently has hit

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21 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About D’Angelo

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The elusive prodigy opened up in Brooklyn, as part of the Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York.

1. D’Angelo started playing piano when he was 3.




2. In high school, he was in a rap group called I.D.U.




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That stands for Intelligent, Deadly, but Unique. He was an MC (“I was pretty fucking good too”) and co-produced

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Martin Delany - Founder of Black Nationalism in US

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African American Artists: from history to art

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Black Artists during the Civil Rights and Liberation Movements


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Crisis of Leadership in Chicago - Harold Washington @ Univ of IL 1982

The son of a sharecropper, the University of Washington graduate became a highly respected macroeconomist…
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99% vs 1% - Skeptical Kid

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Michael Brown's Funeral Eulogy by Al Sharpton

Michael Brown's Funeral Eulogy by Al Sharpton

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God, Power, and Revolution: Politics of Liberation Theology

 Liberation Theology

God, Power, and Revolution: Politics of Liberation Theology




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1.1 Black Theology and Black Power; 1.2 A Black Theology of Liberation ... in their educational institutions, their political, economic and social structures, their ... this means we must know where God is and what God is doing in the revolution.


 Instruction on certain

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Voting rights Act of 1965

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Best Songs For The Soul Train Line At Your Black Family Reunion

Soul Train Line


Soul Train Songs Your Aunties And Uncles Will Tell You You Don’t Know Nothin’ About


Happy Black Family Reunion!


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1. Marvin Gaye, “Got To Give It Up”2. Earth, Wind & Fire, “Let’s Groove”3. The O’Jays, “I Love Music”4. Slave, “Just A Touch of Love”5. The Spinners, “It’s A Shame”6. LTD,

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"Blind Tom," The Slave Turned Civil War-Era Pop Star

Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins (May 25, 1849 – June 14, 1908) was an African- American musical prodigy on the piano. He had numerous original compositions  ...
 Blind Tom - an African- American Musical Prodigy 

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Several years ago I encountered the story of Thomas Greene Wiggins in the pages of Oliver Sacks’ wonderful study of unusual

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Black leaders urge Obama to visit Selma on 'Bloody Sunday'

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Edward Brooke - First African American Elected US Senator

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American Revolution -Huey Newton and AIM

This strategy can help you boost your visibility and get the corner office you deserve.
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Who Was Malcom X and Why Was He Assassinated - An Insider's View

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May 19, 1925 to February 21, 1965

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February 21st marks the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X. Had he lived Malcolm X would have turned 90 years old on May 19 2015. To focus on this occasion, Black Politics is  featuring this first-hand account of Malcolm X, his significance, and the events leading up to his assassination from a man

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Malcolm X - May 19th 1925 to February 21, 1965

 Who Was Malcom X

Why Was He Assassinated - A Black Politics Exclusive

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February 21st marks the fiftieth (50th) anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X. To focus on this occasion, www.blackpolitics.org  will feature an exclusive first-hand account of Malcolm X, his significance, and the events leading up to his assassination from a man whom J Edgar Hoover in 1967 called,

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Hakim Bey - What They Don't Teach You In History Class 101

The Justice Department is preparing to bring a lawsuit against the Ferguson, Missouri, police department over a pattern of racially discriminatory tactics used by officers, if the police department does not agree to make changes on its own, sources tell CNN.
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Historic Pan African Reparations Summit Planned for New York

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Institute of the Black World to host April 2015 Reparations Summit


African, Caribbean, South, Central American and African American Reparations Leaders to attend


New York, Jan. 3, 2015…The New York-based Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) today announced that the organization will host the CARICOM Reparations Commission’s next meeting April 9-12 in New York. The

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The Edmund Pettus Bridge - Selma Alabama

On March 7, 1965, a Sunday, thousands of singing marchers were leaving Selma on their way to Montgomery, Alabama, the state Capital. These demonstrators were intending to demand of Governor George Wallace the right to vote. However, they never made it that far. On the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the gateway to the town of Selma, the marchers were savagely attacked and beaten by state and local

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Honoring Yuri Kochiyama Human Rights Activist - Freedom Fighter

Yuri Kochiyama – Human Rights Activist – Freedom Fighter

If you ever had the honor and privilege of  meeting Yuri Kochiyama, you would know her to be the most gentle and humble of all human spirits. I knew her, and her husband, Bill, and visited with them in their Harlem apartment. Even though Yuri was a Japanese American, she was  as committed to the full liberation of

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\"Bro. Dick Gregory Unchained: On Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.\" 2/22/2013

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"Bro. Dick Gregory Unchained: On Adam Clayton Powell, Jr." 2/22/2013

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Amiri Baraka on his poetry and breaking rules

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Martin Delany - Founder of Black Nationalism in US

Martin  Delany -

Doctor, Civil Rights Activist, Author, Editor and Founder/Father of Black Nationalism (1812–1885)

In recognition of Martin Delany's 19th century emergence as the Father of black nationalism, Frederick Douglass is famously quoted as saying, "I thank God for making me a man, but Delany thanks Him for making him a black man."

Martin R. Delany spent his life working to

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Chilling Congressional Testimony Of 15-Year-Old Boko Haram Survivor

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Boko Haram


Who are they, and why do they Kidnap Nigerian Girls?


“I hope the kidnapped Chibok girls will take courage from my story and know more of what God says and know what it means to stand strong in the face of bad people.”

1. Deborah Peters, a survivor of brutality at the hands of Boko Haram, a militant Islamic group currently terrorizing Nigeria, recently told her story to

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Brian Williams has been accused of many things, but being racist has not been one of them. Yet one of the stories Williams told whose authenticity has been called into question bears the hallmarks of subtle bigotry.

That story -- told over the years to various reporters, writers and others -- concerns the time Williams spent at the Ritz-Carlton in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina,

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Chilling Congressional Testimony Of 15-Year-Old Boko Haram Survivor

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Boko Haram
Who are they, and why do they Kidnap Nigerian Girls?
“I hope the kidnapped Chibok girls will take courage from my story and know more of what God says and know what it means to stand strong in the face of bad people.”
1. Deborah Peters, a survivor of brutality at the hands of Boko Haram, a militant Islamic group currently terrorizing Nigeria, recently told her story

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\'\'Vote for the black guy\'

Preventable accidents are the number one cause of death among children, which is why Nationwide…
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1960S BLACK STUDENT MOVEMENT: SNCC - 'THE SIT-IN'

SNCC and The 1960s Sit-in Movement


The Sit-in


"On February 1, 1960, four freshmen at A&T College in Greensboro, North Carolina, sat in at a segregated  Woolworth lunch counter  downtown. In a matter of days the idea leaped to other cities in North Carolina. During the next two weeks sit-ins spread to fifteen cities in five Southern states. Within the following year, over 50,000 people -

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They Came Before Columbus

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They Came Before Columbus


There is a solid body of historical evidence which calls into question much of the history we have been taught in school. For one, the story of the discovery of America and the so-called New World by Christopher Columbus is just that, a story. They Came Before Columbus and other historical research completely refutes that story. Secondly, there was unmistakably a

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21 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About D’Angelo

Carolina Panthers star quarterback, Cam Newton, returns to college to finish his degree
NFL Quarterback Cam Newton Returns to College to Earn His Degree


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Atlanta's Civil Rights Legacy

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Atlanta - Epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement


Atlanta has played a key historical role in the Civil Rights Movement. It is known as the birthplace of Dr. King and was home to many of the major planning and strategy meetings in the civil rights movement. Atlanta remains home to many of the civil rights leaders who helped to change America, including: Julian Bond, John Lewis, Rev. Joseph

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About US

Http://www.#blackpolitics.org was created during Black History Month, 2014. Our purpose is to aggregate, from multiple sources, historical and contemporary materials about the recent and extended history of African-American politics and political activism in the US in one place, making it easy for our visitors to research and discuss this topic. Visitors are encouraged to submit their own

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A Personal And Political History Of The Afro

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Dante de Blasio’s Afro undoubtedly helped boost interest in the New York mayoral

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Robert F. Williams: Black Power Before the Black Power Movement

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Politics And The Olympics

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The Olympics:

The World's Largest Political Platform

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The Olympics Games, being the longest-running regularly scheduled gathering of athletes and nations in the world, have often been a stage for political theater of all kind, from blatant propagandizing to moments of

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Malcolm X and Revolutionary Black Nationalism in America

Malcolm X and the emerging Ideology of Revolutionary Black Nationalism

"Malcolm X was a student of history, and that is what made him one of the most important political philosophers and leaders African Americans ever produced. For some 15 years or more, Malcolm X studied history, philosophy, religion, and politics."

Quote from Malcolm X and the Black Liberation Movement by Muhammad

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Elombe Brath - African Internationalist - Pan Africanist - Garveyite

Legendary R&B singer Dionne Warwick has been released from the hospital after nearly two weeks following a fall in the shower in her South Orange, N.J., home on Jan. 24, TMZ reported. Warwick, who had ankle surgery after the incident, is expected to make a full recovery.

A week after Warwick -- who is a cousin of Whitney Houston -- suffered the fall, news broke that Houston's daughter Bobbi

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Remembering DJ E-Z Rock - "It takes Two"

DJ E-Z Rock

On April 27, 2014, the legendary DJ E-Z Rock died:

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"According to a Facebook post from longtime partner MC Rob Base, DJ E-Z Rock died on Sunday April 27, 2014. While no official cause of death was revealed at that time, On April 27, 2014 Biz Markie announced on Twitter that DJ E-Z Rock had died after suffering from a diabetic

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Amiri Baraka on his poetry and breaking rules

Poet E. Ethelbert Miller introduces Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) as one of the most prolific writers of the century in this 1998 edition of HoCoPoLitSo's The Writing Life. They talk about the writers that influenced his work: Charlie Olson, the Black Mountain Group, Frank O'Hara and Allen Ginsberg. Baraka reads his first published poem, "Preface to a 20 Volume Suicide Note." A discussion on

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The 1960’s - From Civil Rights to Black Power

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Movements are like the ocean, with waves of high activity and periods of relative calm. The 1960's, like the 1920's before it, represented a wave of high

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Black Teen Wrongfully Pepper-Sprayed By Cops For Burglary

"Authorities said a black teen was pepper-sprayed inside the home of his white foster family when officers mistook him for a burglar Monday afternoon.

DeShawn Currie, 18, had just returned from school when police arrived to the Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, residence in response to reported break-in. A neighbor who saw the teenager enter through a side door of the house mistook him for an

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Black History Facts You May Not Know

As we approach Black History Month, take a look at some of these black history facts. Send us your own.

Maybe you just haven’t had time to learn them. February is the shortest month, after all.
1. It’s a sure bet you know about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


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Black leaders urge Obama to visit Selma on 'Bloody Sunday'

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Black leaders urge Obama to visit Selma on ‘Bloody Sunday’


MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – A group of prominent black political leaders are urging President Barack Obama to visit Selma on the traditional observance of Bloody Sunday instead of the Saturday prior.



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The White House announced this week that Obama would visit Selma on

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