Category Afrocentrism
Adam Simmons: Uncovering the #African Presence in #Medieval #Europe | The Public Medievalist
Uncovering the African Presence in Medieval Europe | The Public Medievalist — Robert de Clari was a French knight who was part of the ill-fated Fourth Crusade. In his account of the Crusade, Conquest of Constantinople (which he wrote around 1216), he offers a tantalizing account of the presence of Africans in medieval Europe. […]
4th World Radyo: Overstanding a Manufactured Hysteria: Or, Why Witnessing Afro-Revisionists Sip Nazi Kool-Aid is Ideologically Painful
Summary: This spoken word dispatch features FWR host @TheAngryindian addressing the prevalence of nonsensical conspiracy theories circulating within the American Afro-Urban community due to the dissemination of false information spread by misinformed, Afrocentrist extremists who routinely (and ignorantly) pluck their ‘research notes’ from the very same pro-European propaganda machine they habitually criticise. Unwittingly, many Black […]
Woman ‘discovers’ her color at age 36: Viviane Duarte only questioned her own racial identity when asked her personal thoughts on difficulties black women face
Note from BW of Brazil: This story is so very typically Brazilian. It’s stories as this one that demonstrate why there are so many stories on this blog detailing the journey of Brazil’s African descendants in coming to assume a black identity. When it is reported that Brazil’s population could be anywhere from 16 million […]
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 […]
Ex-Black Panther Leader Elaine Brown Slams Stanley Nelson’s ‘Condemnable’ Documentary – The Daily Beast
As an aside, to answer any charge that my condemnation of this film arises from the fact that Nelson tossed most of his interview with me onto the cutting room floor, I note that my autobiography, A Taste of Power, my own Black Panther story, has never gone out of print and was just picked […]
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 […]
William Monroe Trotter – Journalist, Civil Rights Activist – Biography.com
In the summer of 1903, Washington visited the AME Zion Church in Boston to give a speech. During the meeting Trotter questioned Washington, which led to a shouting match and ensuing ruckus dubbed “The Boston Riot” by the press. Trotter was arrested, fined and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment, during which time he read W.E.B. […]
Diwaniyya: Eunuchs in the Imperial Harem
The roles of the eunuch on a day-to-day basis included locking and unlocking the doors of the harem, keeping watch over those who entered and left, and ensuring that outsiders did not enter. Upon recruitment and initiation into the harem eunuchs were trained in a “school for eunuchs” where they were taught, “their practical duties, […]
Public Enemy – No Sympathy From The Devil [OFFICIAL] 4K
Public Enemy – No Sympathy From The Devil [OFFICIAL] 4K – YouTube – Public Enemy – No Sympathy from the Devil from Man Plans God Laughs http://www.publicenemy.com/mpgl via ▶ Public Enemy – No Sympathy From The Devil [OFFICIAL] 4K – YouTube.
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 […]
In One Devastating Quote, Dave Chappelle Says What Other Celebrities Won’t About Activism – Mic
“The biggest enemy of an artist is apathy,” Chappelle said, according to the Associated Press. “A kid gets killed by the police and I buy a T-shirt and before I can wear that one, there’s another kid [killed] and I’m running out of closet space.” The T-shirt metaphor is a sobering way to illustrate the […]
Sleuths trace fate of 1st black male slave freed by Lincoln | National & World News | KOMO News
William Henry Costley was just 10 months old in 1841 when Lincoln, who was still a young lawyer, won an Illinois Supreme Court case freeing Costley’s mother from indentured servitude – a status that historians say would have been akin to enslavement for the black woman and child at that time. That was 22 years […]
Ida B. Wells: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com
Ida B. Wells-Barnett would have turned 153 on July 16. She was a writer and editor, a suffragist and an early leader in the civil rights movement.“We salute Ida B. Wells with a Doodle that commemorates her journalistic mettle and her unequivocal commitment to the advancement of civil liberties,” Google says.Wells-Barnett is also known for […]
Black Time Travel | Civil Rights historians ignore this group because they actually defended themselves
The Deacons are a segment of the larger tradition of Black Power in the United States. This tradition began with the inception of African slavery in the U.S. and with the use of Africans as chattel slaves in the Western Hemisphere. Stokely Carmichael defines Black Power as: “The goal of black self-determination and black self-identity—Black […]
Howard French | Why Is Africa Still Poor?
At other times, a consensus has formed around arguments that pin the blame on poor African leadership in the decades since most of the continent achieved independence in the 1960s. According to this view, the outside world has been generous to Africa, providing substantial aid in recent decades, leaving no excuse for the continent’s debility. […]
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 […]
Black Then | Chicago Educator & Activist Marva Collins dies at age 78
CHICAGO (WLS) — Pioneering education, education activist and school founder Marva Collins died Wednesday night in South Carolina at age 78, according to her son. Collins started West Side Preparatory School in Chicago’s Garfield Park neighborhood in 1975. She also founded a style of education that came to be known as the “Collins Method.” The […]
Lee Jasper Official Blog: If Rachel Dozal is Black, then I’m a monkey’s uncle.
Its an intellectual confusion that would have Franz Fanon, the black psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and author spinning in his grave. Fanon from Martinique wrote, the now seminal text, published in 1953, Black Skins White Mask. Here Fanon psychoanalysed the phenomena of black people seeking to annihilate their own culture and adopt the culture of the […]
Rachel Dolezal and the Complex Politics of White Privilege | Elwood D. Watson
Those of us who are familiar with Black History or have a solid knowledge of the Black experience are well aware of the fact that there have always been people of color who have engaged in the art of “passing” — choosing to live and identify as White. The reason why certain Black people chose […]
Rachel Dolezal Now Claiming to Be Founding Member of Bad Brains
EDITOR”S NOTE: The (only) website that this story was published on is well-known (in the Punk world) for pumping satire called thehardtimes.net and frankly, they ‘punked’ me pretty good with this. (As they did with Iggy Azalia as well) What helped this fib along was Rachel Doezal’s twisted saga and the numerous double-downs which damaged […]
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, […]
Civil rights activist Rachel Dolezal misrepresented herself as black, claim parents | World news | The Guardian
They claim that she began to adapt her appearance following her divorce in 2004. “Rachel has wanted to be somebody she’s not. She’s chosen not to just be herself, but to represent herself as an African American woman or a bi-racial person and that’s simply not true,” Ruthanne Dolezal said. In the video, the Dolezals […]
Masculinity Is Killing Men: The Roots of Men and Trauma | Alternet
The emotionally damaging “masculinization” of boys starts even before boyhood, in infancy. Psychologist Terry Real, in his 1998 book I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression, highlights numerous studies which find that parents often unconsciously begin projecting a kind of innate “manliness”—and thus, a diminished need for comfort, […]
Documentary — INNER CITY BLEACHERS OF KINGSTON JAMAICA
KINGSTON JAMAICA INNER CITY BLEACHERS – THIS IS A DOCUMENTARY ON WOMEN & MEN IN JAMAICA THAT HAVE SELF HATRED FOR THEMSELVES TO THE POINT THAT THEY USE CHEMICALS TO BLEACH THEIR SKIN TO THE POINT THAT IT’S PERMANENTLY DAMAGED. via ▶ INNER CITY BLEACHERS OF KINGSTON JAMAICA – YouTube.
Reflections on Jean Seberg and the Black Panther Party – Elaine Brown
Historically, artists were the traditional allies of movements for social change. In the twentieth century, the art of filmmaking had produced men like Charlie Chaplin, so progressive he became a personal target of J. Edgar Hoover’s anti-Communist campaign. There had been the Hollywood Ten, and tens more, who were blacklisted from the film industry for […]
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 […]
“Stretch” Johnson, my father | OUPblog
Shortly after Stretch arrived at Columbia University, the then Dean of the School of General Studies, Clifford Lord, received a visit from two FBI agents who asked him to get rid of Stretch, saying that he was a former communist and a trouble maker. The dean escorted the agents to the door, saying “Mr. Johnson […]
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