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Showing posts with label African. Show all posts

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina

Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina
Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina
In Black Rage in New Orleans, Leonard N. Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane Katrina and the
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Sunday, May 3, 2015

Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861

Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861
Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861
As the story of the United States was recorded in pages written by white historians, early-nineteenth-century African American writers faced the task of piecing together a counterhistory: an approach toRead more...

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Obama Normalizes Relations with Cuba

Obama Normalizes Relations with Cuba
As far back as 2009, members ofA the Congressional Black Caucus had recommended that President Obama normalize relations between Cuba and the US and push for a liftingA of the decades-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba. The CBC sent delegations to Havana to dialogue with Havana in pursuit of normalizing relations between the two long-estranged countries.Read more...

Monday, April 13, 2015

Booker T Washington Web Dubois

What do you do if you think your girlfriend cheated on you with a bunch of rappers? Take her to court, obviously.
In an episode of "Divorce Court" from February, Nathan Sellers accused his girlfriend at the time, Lia Palmquist, of cheating on him with "the entire Wu-Tang Clan." In a clip from the episode recently posted to YouTube, Palmquist explains that she went backstage at a Wu-TangRead more...

African American Politics and Race History in America

Michael Slager, the South Carolina police officercaught on video shooting an unarmed black man who was running away after a traffic stop, is reportedly heard in new audio laughing about his “pumping” adrenaline immediately after the incident.

Theaudio was obtained by The Guardian newspaper, which said it came from the dashcam of Slager’s police cruiser and was recorded in the hour after he

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Sunday, April 12, 2015

Black Athletes Stand with Black Community in Protest

BBC History – Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali was the first man to win the undisputed world heavyweight boxing title three times. ... play Muhammad Ali refuses to fight in the Vietnam WarA�A ...
Derrick Rose, Lebron James, members of St Louis Rams Stand with Black Community in Protest
Echoing the example set by MuhammadA�A Ali, some 50 years ago, African American superstar athletes DerrickRead more...

Friday, April 10, 2015

A Racially Biased Prosecutor - A Secret Grand Jury in Ferguson, Missouri - No Justice, No Peace!

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A Racially Biased Prosecutor
The first observation to be made about the behavior of the prosecutor in the Ferguson, Missouri, case is that he never treated the officer, Darren Wilson, as an adversary. For all of the times that I can remember someone being accusedRead more...

Thursday, April 9, 2015

A Racially Biased Prosecutor - A Secret Grand Jury in Ferguson, Missouri - No Justice, No Peace!

A Racially Biased Prosecutor - A Secret Grand Jury in Ferguson, Missouri - No Justice, No Peace! - http://www.blackpolitics.org
A Racially Biased Prosecutor
The first observation to be made about the behavior of the prosecutor in the Ferguson, Missouri, case is that he never treated the officer, Darren Wilson, as an adversary. For all of the times that I can remember someone being accused ofRead more...

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MARCH FOR JUSTICE

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Sunday, April 5, 2015

MARCH FOR JUSTICE

 MARCH FOR JUSTICE
Protesters are taking to the streets by the thousands in cities across the US to march for justice protest grand juries’ decisions not to indict the white officers responsible for the deaths of two unarmed black men, and demand police accountability.

National Action Network | No Justice, No Peace
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Bridge to Black Power: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. [W/ Kwame Ture]

UNION, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey's Kean University has cancelled hip-hop artist Common as commencement speaker after police voiced concerns over a song about a woman convicted of killing a police officer who fled to Cuba.
The school announced the Academy Award winner's selection on Monday, but said on its social media sites on Tuesday night that he would not be the speaker.
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Elombe Brath - African Internationalist - Pan Africanist - Garveyite

Elombe Brath Pan Africanist Garveyite
African American activists know May 19th as the birthday of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, or Malcolm X. As fate would have it, renowned African internationalist and Pan Africanist scholar, activist, and leader, Elombe Brath, joined the spiritual world of the ancestors on May 19th 2014.
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Elombe Brath - African Internationalist - Pan Africanist - Garveyite

Elombe Brath Pan Africanist Garveyite

African American activists know May 19th as the birthday of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, or Malcolm X. As fate would have it, renowned African internationalist and Pan Africanist scholar, activist, and leader, Elombe Brath, joined the spiritual world of the ancestors on May 19th 2014.

I cannot think of a more gifted Pan Africanist leader than Elombe Brath,

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

The Long Road to Brown, 1865-1954

The Long Road to Brown, 1865-1954
Long before the 1954 brown v Board of Education, African Americans across the South�fought against the Apartheid system of Jim Crow and for quality public education. Within the separate and unequal system African Americans built their own quality education system. The problem was not necessarily the separate system, but that the white system got all of theRead more...

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Queen Mother Audley Moore - Over 80 Years of Struggle - African American Reparations Leader/Garveyite

Queen Mother Moore - African American

Reparations Leader/Garveyite

At the time of her passing, at age 99 on May 2, 1997, Queen Mother Moore held the distinction of being the longest serving African American female activist in the movement for the liberation of African people in America. She was born as Audley, to Ella and St. Cry Moore, on July 27, 1898 in New Iberia, Louisiana. Her

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Queen Mother Audley Moore - Over 80 Years of Struggle - African American Reparations Leader/Garveyite

Queen Mother� Moore - African American
Reparations Leader/Garveyite
At the time of her passing, at age 99 on May 2, 1997, Queen Mother Moore held the distinction of being the longest serving African American female activist in the movement for the liberation of African people in America. She was born as Audley, to Ella and St. Cry Moore, on July 27, 1898 in New Iberia, Louisiana. HerRead more...