African Descendants ✊🏿 Black People - Americas, Africa, Caribbean Culture Discussion

[layziegunts]

Earthstrong to the great Marcus Mosiah Garvey

 

[everynowandthen]

Tragedy in Wrightsville: What really happened in 1959

For the last 5 decades, every year has been 1959 for Frank Lawrence. For the majority of his life, Lawrence has been trying to solve one of Arkansas' greatest mysteries.No one ever knew it existed because the ability of the state of Arkansas to do such a f

katv.com

 

[atlsfinest]

This is always been such a funny dynamic to me. Everybody hates billionaires yet they applaud when their favorite black celebrity or athlete (LeBron, Jordan, Jay-Z, Rihanna) crosses that threshold of the ultra wealthy.

Like the meme says, Rihanna or Kanye could open up an exploitative diamond mine or sweatshop or for-profit prison and people would still be saying "yaaaas get yours Ri-ri!"

Are all billionaires bad or are just old white billionaires the bad guys?

Is it better if it's a black-owned sweatshop or private prison?

 

[Mark Antony]

Personally I have no heat for black capitalists until the playing field is fair for all. Sorry.

And comparing a position at LVMH to owning prisons? Come on now. LVMH has made so much money off us and continue to do so, i'm glad there are some making money off them.

 

[layziegunts]

Kings please check this out with a VERY special guest

 

[freeze]

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[layziegunts]

:,(

 

[atlsfinest]

 

[Present]

 

[Present]

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Black vs African

Not the same thing.

I have African ancestry but I am not African.

South African Designer Apologizes for Rope Ties That Resemble Nooses

A fashion designer in South Africa is apologizing to those offended by his assortment of rope ties that many say resemble nooses.

www.blackenterprise.com

 

[atlsfinest]

 

[Nouss]

 

[debso]

I can’t even say what I want to say about that **** on here without getting banned altogether.

Smh.

 

[thecoldest343]

Sickening to what's happening to those people as most make the claim of 'making a better life for themselves' and their being deported ;this country and many other's like it will suffer and their children and their children will carry those burdens til things even themselves out.

Prayers to them and their journey

 

[Nouss]

Redirect Notice

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Grine

You find the black people in Mexico?

 

[Grine]

Grine

You find the black people in Mexico?

Seen a couple Afro-Mexicans - gonna try to slide to that area (Cuajinicuilapa) this evening.

 

[gry60]

Land and property in pre-colonial Africa: land ownership, land sales and the shortfalls of the "land abundant Africa" theories

A look at pre-colonial African land tenure systems from Senegal and Mali to Nigeria, Sudan and Ethiopia

isaacsamuel.substack.com

 

[everynowandthen]

Mad late but Happy Birthday (recently found out we're related via my maternal side)

Happy 102nd birthday

Mary Letang, known to all as “Baby,” was born on November 9, 1919, to Annie Joseph and Wilmott Brown, in the hills of Lamberton, Bendals. Mary lost her mother at a tender age, and never knew her.

antiguaobserver.com

 

[layziegunts]

Happy New Year

 

[freeze]

all day. Forever.

 

[gry60]

 

[Nouss]

Lol I literally learned that this weekend on some youtube video. Makes sense, I just hadn't thought about it.

 

[melo0115]

I'm reading "Mansa Musa: And the Empire of Mali"

I was looking through my old pics on phone. Ran into my heritage results from like 5 years ago.
I've claimed Cameroon... because that was my highest percentage.
But I forgot Mali was a close second.

 

[fluid hips]

Still trying to understand how Bolivia got their flag colors and they are in South America