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Zanj Rebellion – Wikipedia
Zanj Rebellion – The Zanj Rebellion or the Negro Rebellion was the culmination of series of small revolts. It took place near the city of Basra, located in present-day southern Iraq, over a period of fifteen years (AD 869–883). The insurrection is believed to have involved enslaved Bantus (Zanj) that had originally been captured from […]
Holocausto palestino en Gaza › Cuba › Granma – Órgano oficial del PCC
Las escribo con rapidez solo para dejar constancia de lo que se requiere meditar profundamente.Pienso que una nueva y repugnante forma de fascismo está surgiendo con notable fuerza en este momento de la historia humana, en el que más de siete mil millones de habitantes se esfuerzan por la propia supervivencia.Ninguna de estas circunstancias tiene […]
Malcolm X’s daughter on Juneteenth: ‘We’re in denial of the African holocaust’ | World news | theguardian.com
“We’re in denial of the African holocaust,” Shabazz said. “Most times, people don’t want to talk about it. One is often restless or termed a racist just for having compassion for the African experience, for speaking truth to the trans-Atlantic and Arab slave trades, for speaking truth to the significant omission of our history. We […]
Love in the Time of Israel’s War on Africans | David Sheen
Sometimes I would silently document their monologues, and at other times I would play devil’s advocate, pointing out what I perceived were weaknesses in their arguments. If they claimed that the Africans were criminals, I noted that official police statistics consistently demonstrated that the asylum-seekers have a lower crime rate than native Israelis. If they […]
Transgenerational memories passed down through DNA — Science of the Spirit — Sott.net
According to the Telegraph, Dr Brian Dias, from the department of psychiatry at Emory University, said: “From a translational perspective, our results allow us to appreciate how the experiences of a parent, before even conceiving offspring, markedly influence both structure and function in the nervous system of subsequent generations. “Such a phenomenon may contribute to […]
jadaliyya.com: The Ottoman Scramble for Africa
Yet, during this same period, we also observe the growth of Ottoman administrative apparatuses, increased government involvement in peripheral areas such as Eastern Anatolia and the Arab provinces, and the development of new ministries to address issues of public works, education, health, forestry, and settlement. This even included military campaigns to expand Ottoman territory into […]
Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with polonium, tests show | World news | The Guardian
Suha Arafat said the evidence in the report suggested that her then healthy 75-year-old husband, who died in 2004 four weeks after he first fell ill following a meal, was almost certainly murdered by poisoning. She told al-Jazeera: \”This is the crime of the century.\”Speaking to the Guardian after receiving the report, she said she […]
Rebecca Tinsley: The Great Taboo: Arab Racism
With the liberation of Libya come less happy reports from Amnesty and Physicians for Human Rights of rebels slaughtering scores of black Africans, believing they were all pro-Gaddafi mercenaries. While the dictator did hire some fighters from sub-Saharan Africa, the vast majority of black Africans in Libya are entirely innocent immigrants, one million of whom […]
Video: Israeli crowd cheers as Africans called “slaves” | The Electronic Intifada
Michael Ben-Ari, a former member of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, calls for martial law to prevent “ten million Chinese, five million Indians and twenty million Africans” from entering the country and turning Israel from a “Jewish state” to a “multi-national state.” Little children chant: “The people demand the expulsion of the Sudanese!” to the delight […]
The World Needs Peace – But Not a Pax Americana | Black Agenda Report
The World Needs Peace – But Not a Pax Americana | Black Agenda Report. by Cynthia McKinney Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who last week completed a peace mission to Syria along with former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark and others, made the following remarks to the IBON IBON Conference on Democracy, Self-Determination and Liberation […]
Pre-blackness, blackness & post-blackness / 195,000 b.c. to Today » onlineJournal | The Liberator Magazine
The first recognizably black humans began appearing in Africa around 200,000 years ago. Some 50,000 years later, they began to engage in the more refined human behaviors including sophisticated tool and jewelry making, painting, sculpture, and the control of fire. About 5,000 years ago, Menes became the the planet’s first king of a nation-state that […]
Skin-Lightening Cream is Making a Comeback-Do We Really Hate Our Dark Skin?
I’m not sure if this is a resurgence from a bygone era or something thats always been around in some shape or form. But it looks like skin-lightening cream is making a comeback. Its obviously big business in India if Vaseline is making a special product for folks in that country. But even here at […]
Confronting anti-black racism in the Arab world – Al Jazeera English
The Arab slave trade is a fact of history, and anti-black racism in the region is something that must be addressed. In response to an essay I wrote recently regarding the essential blackness of the Palestinian struggle, I received this reaction, among others: What about Arab anti-black racism? Or the Arab slave trade? The Arab […]
Black Solidarity With Palestine | Black Agenda Report
What is remarkable is how this Israeli apartheid regime, and the attendant Palestinian disenfranchisement, has been normalized. Israel is considered a liberal Western state with equal rights and opportunity, and in its attempt to whitewash its violations of international law, it has sought to present itself as enlightened and democratic. It is considered so “vulnerable” […]
Black Arab mythology
In Serbian mythology and in Bulgarian mythology, Black Arab Serbian: Црни Арапин, Crni Arapin, Bulgarian: Църен Арапин, Черен Арапин is a designation for Arabs and black people.[1] The Black Arab is often depicted as a dark-tanned ruffian who kidnaps women and girls.[1] In Serbian folklore, as well as in the beliefs of other Balkan peoples, […]
When Islamic atheism thrived | Amira Nowaira
Freethinking is perhaps not one of the strongest suits of modern Islam. For one thing, the list of books that have been banned for challenging prevalent religious orthodoxies and sensibilities during the past hundred years is disconcertingly long.Modern Islamic clerics and scholars in various Muslim countries are often highly selective of which part of the […]
RaceandHistory.com : The Myth of Black African Slave Traders
Islam, Colourism and the Myth of Black African Slave TradersAfricans in the Diaspora have the challenge of rewriting a history that has been stained by years of distortions, omission and downright lies. One of the biggest challenges of rewriting this history has been the Atlantic Slave Trade, and one of the biggest sore points has […]
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