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Omg I'm so shocked
Apartheid was like yesterday. Ironically the same economic anxiety plaguing white Americans are happening there with the increase in black leadership. The poor white population is growing.
African Descendants ✊🏿 Black People - Americas, Africa, Caribbean Culture Discussion
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Omg I'm so shocked
Apartheid was like yesterday. Ironically the same economic anxiety plaguing white Americans are happening there with the increase in black leadership. The poor white population is growing.
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BBC World Service - Witness History, African history
Listen to and download our programmes
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wrong thread
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Stunning images of elegance and strength
A book of portraits captures the style and resilience of West African women over the decades. Its author Catherine McKinley tells the story behind the collection.
www.bbc.com
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MLK at Garvey grave
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Great article. Please read:
drjasonjohnson.com
"A student who went by the name Chinedu told me afterward: “I’m a gay black man. I don’t agree with all that he says, but we have to meet at the table.”
Another man I spoke to was standing in the aisles yelling at the moderator: “I need this! I need this!” He told me that Johnson was the only man out there who spoke to men like him, that he’d been through some thangs that only Johnson could explain.
It was painful to watch, but in that moment it dawned on me why some part of me had clung to men like Johnson despite my knowing full well that they trafficked in papier-mâché Pan-Africanism. Umar Johnson was a way of clinging to my intellectual youth, when fighting white supremacy just meant giving provocative speeches, raising some money and drinking alkaline water."
How Umar Johnson Cured Me of Being a Hidden Hotep
I am a recovering hidden Hotep. Mind you, not the ankh-wearing, incense-selling, lecture-women-about-their menstrual-cycles kind of Hotep. I was more Hotep-adjacent. Hidden beneath my public-Ivy ed…
drjasonjohnson.com
Another man I spoke to was standing in the aisles yelling at the moderator: “I need this! I need this!” He told me that Johnson was the only man out there who spoke to men like him, that he’d been through some thangs that only Johnson could explain.
It was painful to watch, but in that moment it dawned on me why some part of me had clung to men like Johnson despite my knowing full well that they trafficked in papier-mâché Pan-Africanism. Umar Johnson was a way of clinging to my intellectual youth, when fighting white supremacy just meant giving provocative speeches, raising some money and drinking alkaline water."
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"Join Brooklyn's finest, Yaya Bey & Friends, for a night of celebration this Juneteenth! Featuring a live performance by Yaya Bey and DJ sets by BOSTON CHERY & Run P."
Location:
The Sultan Room
234 Starr Street
Brooklyn, NY 11237
Date & Time:
Sat, June 19, 2021, 6:00 PM EDT
Doors at 6:00 PM
I can't attend due to not being in NY atm. But if you're in the city & want to go to this I'll buy you a ticket. If you have a s.o. I'll pay for both of your tickets. Consider it a Juneteenth gift from yours truly. Just lmk:
Location:
The Sultan Room
234 Starr Street
Brooklyn, NY 11237
Date & Time:
Sat, June 19, 2021, 6:00 PM EDT
Doors at 6:00 PM
I can't attend due to not being in NY atm. But if you're in the city & want to go to this I'll buy you a ticket. If you have a s.o. I'll pay for both of your tickets. Consider it a Juneteenth gift from yours truly. Just lmk:
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Former South African President Jacob Zuma sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court | CNN
South Africa's highest court found former President Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 15 months in prison on Tuesday, a landmark move in the country's long-running corruption saga.
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Former South African President Jacob Zuma sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court | CNN
South Africa's highest court found former President Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 15 months in prison on Tuesday, a landmark move in the country's long-running corruption saga.www.cnn.com
hopefully he doesn’t see any jail time
Why not?
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Mali’s cultural hero Abdel Kader Haidara: how a librarian saved the treasures of Timbuktu
The Islamic State ransacked and demolished mosques, shrines, churches, libraries, and historical monuments across the Middle East and North Africa. There were a few heroes who stood against them. We wrote about one of them, Syria’s Khalid al-Assad, here. Here is another, librarian Abdel Kader...
bookhaven.stanford.edu
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According to the FBI, in 2019 out of the 4,930 reported "48.5 percent were victims of crimes motivated by offenders’ anti-Black or African American bias."
Victims
ucr.fbi.gov
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Smh, prayers up to the Haitian people.
Sonje lapli ki leve mayi ou
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Mister Meaner
formerly super producer j
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John Adams Supports Toussaint Louverture, Horrifies Jefferson - New England Historical Society
Toussaint Louverture was a self-educated former slave who led the Haitian Revolution against France. President John Adams supported him, to Thomas Jefferson's dismay.
www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com
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