Category Afro-Indios
Haiti: Passage of Darkness
Are there really zombies in Haiti? Wade Davis devotes two long sections to this question. He first looks at the popular views and then explores cases where there have been some attempts to carefully and more scientifically determine the status of suspected cases. His key candidate for zombiehood is Clairvius Narcisse. In spring, 1962 Narcisse […]
To White Folks That Have Never Seen Super Light Skinned Negros Before
So, this is me. No makeup, no sorcery. This picture is a few years old. Nothing has changed. I suppose what they really mean when they think/say that I’m not black is that I don’t inspire their racist fears about black people. Or they could mean that black people don’t have certain looks. Not REAL […]
Slaughter Of Young Black Trans Women Intensifies, With 5 Murders Reported In 1 Week – Towleroad
The other day we told you how Shade Schuler, whose badly decomposed body was found in a vacant field in Dallas, was the 13th transgender person known to have been murdered this year, eclipsing the total from all of 2014.Since then, three additional murders of transgender women have been reported, bringing the 2015 total to […]
Blaxican: The Revolutionary Identity of Black Mexicans | News | teleSUR English
“When we think of race, people tend to conflate ethnicity and race, and tend to think of the two as one,” he told teleSUR. “We have to recognize that Blackness in this country is usually described and understood in the African-American experience. We cannot sit here and exceptionalize that experience, we have to recognize other […]
DEADLY DIPLOMACY: THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNITED STATES OCCUPATION OF HAITI | Black Star News
The U.S. rationale for occupying Haiti in 1915 was to supposedly restore political order and maintain economic stability in Haiti. Instead, given its chicanery, the U.S. occupation of Haiti has led to unintended and negative consequences for Haiti. These consequences include, but are not limited to the U.S. gaining complete control of Haitian finances; the […]
BlackCommentator.com – July 02, 2015 – Issue 613 Cover Story: Has the Neo-Confederacy Fallen? – A Commentary on Twenty-Three Years of Fighting the Neo-Confederate Movement By Ed Sebesta, BC Guest Commentator
People expect a racist to be a marginal individual, rude, belligerent, spouting racial slurs and can comfort themselves that they must not be racist since they are not like that. I was discomforting. Newspapers, major dailies, liberal magazines and other publications were resolutely not interested.So I continued to research year after year, purchasing all the […]
Local minister urges the flying of Black Liberation flag this weekend | abc11.com
“While some people are talking about Confederate flags and saying take it down, we’re saying let’s take this flag and raise it up,” said Scott while holding the red, black, and green flag first introduced by political activist Marcus Garvey in 1920. It was later adopted as the Black Liberation flag in the 1960s. Scott […]
I became a black woman in Spokane. But, Rachel Dolezal, I was a black girl first | Alicia Walters | Comment is free | The Guardian
Dolezal’s specious claims to black ancestry and faux black identity could not have been sustained and she would not have been able to pass if black womanhood were seen and understood as more than skin – or weave – deep. Wearing black womanhood was apparently even enough for Dolezal’s “fellow” black leaders in Spokane, Washington, […]
#RIP Reynaldo Rey – January 27, 1940 – May 28, 2015
Rey was born in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. He was of African American and Native American descent. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Kansas State Teacher’s College, majoring in Education. Rey moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he taught for seven years and became a member of the Karamu House Theatre, world renowned for its […]
SCLC director calls on black families to arm themselves | www.ajc.com
The remarks came one week after 23-year-old Goodyear employee Nicholas Thomas was fatally shot by Smyrna police serving an arrest warrant on a probation violation. Police say Thomas tried to run them over in a customer’s Maserati, though lawyers hired by the dead man’s family have challenged the official account. Earlier this month 27-year-old Anthony […]
Celebrating Bwa Kayiman 2014 – Ezili Danto . Haiti newsEzili Danto . Haiti news
We witness to ourselves, by ourselves. For, we are the Haitians. From the womb to the tomb, our lives is about struggle. Free Haiti understand a US-European war is declared and waged daily against our lives, our lands, our resources, our culture, religion, our future, our very soul. But for over “five hundred years in […]
Civil rights movement history: The long tradition of black Americans taking up arms to defend themselves against racial violence.
In his new book, 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back, David F. Krugler, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville, looks at the actions of people like Jones and Davis, who resisted white incursions against the black community through the press, the courts, and armed defensive action. The year […]
‘Land is a Relationship’: In conversation with Glen Coulthard on Indigenous nationhood | rabble.ca
Coulthard is a member of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, an assistant professor at UBC, and involved with the Dechinta Bush University. His debut book Red Skins, White Masks is a trail-blazing opus, quickly gathering a storm of praise and becoming a manifesto for Indigenous resurgence within academic, activist and community circles, as well as […]
I’m tired of suppressing myself to get along with white people – Salon.com
“What’s happening in Ferguson?” one of my white roommates asked. “I heard some kid got shot or something like that.” The words clamored in my ears. How could he not know? Weren’t his Twitter, Instagram and Facebook feeds flooded with opinions and hashtags? I’m sure he meant nothing by his statement. We’re all ill-informed from […]
Racism gets in the way of Romance, says new CBC poll – Manitoba – CBC News
Only 50 per cent of people from Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta said they would be OK with a romantic relationship with an aboriginal person. That compares with the national average of 63 per cent.Mark Grindey did not let racism get in the way of love when he proposed 38 years ago to Shirley McLean, a […]
Open letter to the UN: Police brutality in the Black community requires action | Green Left Weekly
The police brutality levied upon African/black people is systematic and is taking lives at an almost once a day rate. We have even seen young children being murdered, like Aiyana Stanley-Jones, who was murdered by a Detroit police officer in 2010. Her murderer, Joseph Weekly, is still a free man.African/black people within the United States […]
COPA v. Pentagon on King Files – press release, 05/14/01
The original FOIA request for records, in 1998, specified a full range of Army Intelligence units that were reportedly involved in surveillance of Dr. King up to and including the day of his assassination. Early responses from the Department of Defense FOIA office indicated that there was not a single file in their records regarding […]
Caged Warrior – Leonard #Peltier
With its COINTELPRO brainchild, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI operatives had a mission of quashing all movements considered subversive, using divide-and-conquer tactics, flooding inner-city neighborhoods with drugs, tying up movement hands with false arrests and trials, and complicity in cruel and torturous measures. The main targets of their aggressive attacks were the Black Panthers and the […]
Fruit of the Poisonous Tree : Biological Warfare and the Value of Black Life « Why You Mad Son Entertainment
The revolution of the mind continues…We have been watching the Ebola case with a curious eye for awhile now And it has caused us to reflect on the horrid and heinous history Western and European countries have with biological warfare and human experimentation… And the nefarious practice of using the powerless as guinea pigs.Is a […]
Whipping Is A White Slavemaster Behavior | NOI Research Group
Editor’s Note: If you can deal with seeing past the obvious anti-Jewish tones that appear in this work and have the ability to read it objectively, a really serious ppint is being made here. It is unfortunate that the author choose to include ethnic references that can (and will) be utilised to discredit the essay, […]
Lynching of Jesse Washington – Wikipedia
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a significant number of lynchings occurred in the Southeastern United States, primarily of African Americans in the states of Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas. Between 1890 and 1920, about 3,000 African Americans were killed by lynch mobs, usually after whites were the victims of crimes purportedly committed by […]
Why are white people scared of black people’s rage at Michael Brown’s death? | Rebecca Carroll | Comment is free | theguardian.com
In between talking with my son to both protect him from the same fate as Michael Brown and empower him to walk tall in his skin, I have tweeted and posted on Facebook about this all week to no avail. Some white friends and acquaintances have said their silence is not complicity, or that we […]
Ferguson Feeds Off the Poor: Three Warrants a Year Per Household – The Daily Beast
Ferguson PDMichael DalyMichael DalyU.S. News08.22.14Ferguson Feeds Off the Poor: Three Warrants a Year Per HouseholdIn the chamber where Officer Darren Wilson received a commendation six months before killing Michael Brown, a minor court generates major money from the city’s poor and working people.The Ferguson Police have now released a video that shows police Officer Darren […]
As Long As Grass Grows or Water Runs – [historyisaweapon.com]
And so, Indian Removal, as it has been politely called, cleared the land for white occupancy between the Appalachians and the Mississippi, cleared it for cotton in the South and grain in the North, for expansion, immigration, canals, railroads, new cities, and the building of a huge continental empire clear across to the Pacific Ocean. […]
Geronimo Pratt: ‘LAST MAN STANDING’
After two tours of duty in Vietnam and fifty-five combat jumps Soldiers Medal, Air Medal, Purple Heart, Pratt enrolled in a “high potential” program at UCLA. In his earliest months on campus, wholesale acts of police brutality and racial violence inspired him to join the Panthers. As he became more active, he found himself subjected […]
Message from Leonard Peltier 08/28/2014… – Friends of Peltier
The Constitution of the United states was a copy of Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy Law. Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin all wrote down as to where they got the ideas and inspiration from. The main premise of the constitution being, you have the freedom to do anything you want as long as you don’t […]
GoFundMe: Stop profiting from racially-motivated donors, celebrating Michael Brown’s death | ColorOfChange.org
The online fundraising platform GoFundMe is profiting off racially-motivated donors, some of whom are celebrating the police killing of Michael Brown. Join our campaign demanding that GoFundMe return these profits and take down Darren Wilson fundraising pages. In the past week, a fundraising effort has been started to support Darren Wilson, the officer responsible for […]
Ku Klux Klan Faction Predicts American Government Is On The Brink Of Collapse As They Train For ‘Race War’ PICTURES
Behind closed gates, the participants frequently spat the “n-word” and openly supported the killing of homosexuals they branded “fags”.Screams of “white power” angrily erupted from a wooden hut inside a forest clearing early on a Saturday morning – where the rally was hosted.Armed men and women wearing trademark robes and pointed hoods gather jeering around […]
Could The Civil Rights Movement Have Happened In Today’s Militarized Police State? | Occupy.com
Bull Connor became legendary as the Birmingham public safety commissioner who ordered police dogs and fire hoses to be used on peaceful civil rights protesters in 1960s Alabama. Birmingham became known as “Bombingham” after multiple racially-motivated bombingsaimed at intimidating the city’s black residents rocked the city, from the North Smithfield neighborhood to the notorious 6th […]
Timeline Photos – Zinn Education Project | Facebook
Zinn Education ProjectOn July 29, 1910, citizens in the small, predominately African American town of Slocum, Texas were massacred. This was one of many towns, such as Rosewood and Tulsa, where a successful, self-sufficient African American community was the subject of a terrorist attack designed to maintain economic white supremacy. In each town, the incident […]
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