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Let's make everything about RACE (Unapologetically Black Thread)
He totally skipped over how the Priestesses were ignored, as misogyny was spreading across countries in Africa. The ignoring of those Priestesses is what allowed those supposed traders/invades to be allowed on the continent in the first place. Black Women, African women, tried to save their countries, but they were ignored. The descendants of those women, are those attempting to save this nation and the wealth of Black people in the americas right now. Without those Black women, we'd nary have a pot to piss in, or even be in a position to eventually fight.
We've got to pay attention to what these Women are saying, doing, in this country, so that we do not repeat the mistake of the past.
Thought I saw Condoleezza Rice in there...was about to say!
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He totally skipped over how the Priestesses were ignored, as misogyny was spreading across countries in Africa. The ignoring of those Priestesses is what allowed those supposed traders/invades to be allowed on the continent in the first place. Black Women, African women, tried to save their countries, but they were ignored. The descendants of those women, are those attempting to save this nation and the wealth of Black people in the americas right now. Without those Black women, we'd nary have a pot to piss in, or even be in a position to eventually fight.
We've got to pay attention to what these Women are saying, doing, in this country, so that we do not repeat the mistake of the past.
Liberalism!!!!
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'Unruly': Mahershala Ali To Star As Legendary Boxer Jack Johnson In HBO Limited Series
Mahershala Ali has been attached to star in an upcoming HBO limited series on boxer Jack Johnson.
Titled Unruly, the project is described as "an unapologetically Black, no-holds-barred telling of Johnson’s life. The first-ever Black heavyweight boxing champion, the show would follow Johnson’s rise to greatness and the costs he paid for his skin color and defiance."
It is based on the Ken Burns documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson and the book by Geoffrey C. Ward. HBO originally had it in development in 2013 with Beau Willimon set to write.
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Mahershala Ali has been attached to star in an upcoming HBO limited series on boxer Jack Johnson.
Titled Unruly, the project is described as "an unapologetically Black, no-holds-barred telling of Johnson’s life. The first-ever Black heavyweight boxing champion, the show would follow Johnson’s rise to greatness and the costs he paid for his skin color and defiance."
It is based on the Ken Burns documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson and the book by Geoffrey C. Ward. HBO originally had it in development in 2013 with Beau Willimon set to write.
'Unruly': Mahershala Ali To Star As Legendary Boxer Jack Johnson In HBO Limited Series - Shadow and Act
Mahershala Ali has been attached to star in an upcoming HBO limited series on boxer Jack Johnson. Titled Unruly, the project is described as “an unapologetically Black, no-holds-barred telling of Johnson’s life. The first-ever Black heavyweight boxing champion, the show would follow Johnson’s...
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The First African Baptist Church of Savannah, GA., one of the oldest Black churches in North America, began on this date in 1777.
Originally called the First Colored Church, the Reverend George Leile’s pastoral life is tied to its beginning. He began leading this congregation on the second Sunday in December that year, marking the beginning of this house of worship. The First African Baptist Church has survived the birth of America, the repressive hand of a hostile British, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Black Codes and the Revolutionary changes of the 1960s upon their community. For over 200 years the First African Baptist Church has served on behalf of all people and is a standing monument for black America in the eyes of God. One of the slaves baptized by Minister Leile was Andrew Bryan. He became the second pastor of the church, purchasing the fourth site on which they worshiped on West Bryan Street.
The congregation changed the name of the church in 1822 from the First Colored Church to First African Baptist Church. On July 26, 1826, the Sunday school was organized with the aid of the Independent Presbyterian Church. The members of the congregation erected the present sanctuary in 1859. This is the first Black-owned building in the State of Georgia that was constructed of brick. For years it was known as the "Brick Church." The pipe organ was installed in 1888.
Currently the church houses a museum containing archives and memorabilia that hold church records dating back to the 18th century. Listed in the National Register of Historic places, the First African Baptist Church continues operation at 24 Montgomery Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401.
Originally called the First Colored Church, the Reverend George Leile’s pastoral life is tied to its beginning. He began leading this congregation on the second Sunday in December that year, marking the beginning of this house of worship. The First African Baptist Church has survived the birth of America, the repressive hand of a hostile British, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Black Codes and the Revolutionary changes of the 1960s upon their community. For over 200 years the First African Baptist Church has served on behalf of all people and is a standing monument for black America in the eyes of God. One of the slaves baptized by Minister Leile was Andrew Bryan. He became the second pastor of the church, purchasing the fourth site on which they worshiped on West Bryan Street.
The congregation changed the name of the church in 1822 from the First Colored Church to First African Baptist Church. On July 26, 1826, the Sunday school was organized with the aid of the Independent Presbyterian Church. The members of the congregation erected the present sanctuary in 1859. This is the first Black-owned building in the State of Georgia that was constructed of brick. For years it was known as the "Brick Church." The pipe organ was installed in 1888.
Currently the church houses a museum containing archives and memorabilia that hold church records dating back to the 18th century. Listed in the National Register of Historic places, the First African Baptist Church continues operation at 24 Montgomery Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401.
The First African Baptist Church of Savannah, GA., one of the oldest Black churches in North America, began on this date in 1777.
Originally called the First Colored Church, the Reverend George Leile’s pastoral life is tied to its beginning. He began leading this congregation on the second Sunday in December that year, marking the beginning of this house of worship. The First African Baptist Church has survived the birth of America, the repressive hand of a hostile British, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Black Codes and the Revolutionary changes of the 1960s upon their community. For over 200 years the First African Baptist Church has served on behalf of all people and is a standing monument for black America in the eyes of God. One of the slaves baptized by Minister Leile was Andrew Bryan. He became the second pastor of the church, purchasing the fourth site on which they worshiped on West Bryan Street.
The congregation changed the name of the church in 1822 from the First Colored Church to First African Baptist Church. On July 26, 1826, the Sunday school was organized with the aid of the Independent Presbyterian Church. The members of the congregation erected the present sanctuary in 1859. This is the first Black-owned building in the State of Georgia that was constructed of brick. For years it was known as the "Brick Church." The pipe organ was installed in 1888.
Currently the church houses a museum containing archives and memorabilia that hold church records dating back to the 18th century. Listed in the National Register of Historic places, the First African Baptist Church continues operation at 24 Montgomery Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401.
Feeling mixed.
We can start a whole new thread limited only to what the "Church" has done to us since the Portuguese decided it time to enslave Africans.
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Yes, I agree. The whole thing about being born of sin, into sin, is a bunch of bull. However, I do applaud the ancestors who held us together by creating a mismash of African traditions within christianity, in order to hold on to some semblance of identity. Without what they tried to do, we'd be totally lost.
Whenever I go into any church, I always say a Kemetic Prayer, thanking those ancestors for their wisdom and courage.
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He totally skipped over how the Priestesses were ignored, as misogyny was spreading across countries in Africa. The ignoring of those Priestesses is what allowed those supposed traders/invades to be allowed on the continent in the first place. Black Women, African women, tried to save their countries, but they were ignored. The descendants of those women, are those attempting to save this nation and the wealth of Black people in the americas right now. Without those Black women, we'd nary have a pot to piss in, or even be in a position to eventually fight.
We've got to pay attention to what these Women are saying, doing, in this country, so that we do not repeat the mistake of the past.
You are real one folk!
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Germany bans far-right, pro-Nazi group; Police raid homes
BERLIN (AP) — More than 180 police officers raided homes in three German states early Tuesday after the German government banned a far-right group, the interior ministry said.
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Mismash of African traditions within christianity? And what reason/business does a black person have in church?
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I believe you are asking what those traditions are, correct?
Jumping the broom, ceremonial wedding traditions for one. The Coptic Church, a christian church, has plenty african traditions as well.
Black people do have reason to go into a church, if the ancestors of those Black people are present.
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Got you. I’ll have to research jumping the broom/ceremonial traditions. Monogamy isn’t African, I know that much....
As for a church having African traditions, coca-cola has some potassium. But why opt for the destructive route when bananas have potassium...? We need to have a discussion on establishing new traditions that serve to remedy the issues plaguing us. It’s getting bad.
Germany bans far-right, pro-Nazi group; Police raid homes
BERLIN (AP) — More than 180 police officers raided homes in three German states early Tuesday after the German government banned a far-right group, the interior ministry said.
“Whoever fights against the basic values of our free society will get to feel the resolute reaction of our government,” Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said. “There’s no place in this country for an association that sows hatred and and works on the resurrection of a Nazi state.”
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It is only destructive if the ancestors are not venerated, honored properly. What has been done through the Abrahamic faiths, especially while under the control of white supremacy, is the ignoring of those traditions that honor and venerate our ancestry. We weaken that connection when that happens, losing sight of that voice, our own intuition, that of which serves us and our plight.
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This date marks the birth in 1829 of John Mercer Langston, an African American abolitionist, attorney, educator, and political activist.
Langston was born free to a white plantation owner John Quarles and Lucy Jane Langston, a slave. He was the youngest of four children. His older brother, Charles Henry, became noted abolitionist Charles Henry Langston, and John was the great-uncle of renowned poet Langston Hughes.
When he was 4, both his parents died and he went with a family friend to Oberlin, Ohio. At the age of 14, Langston enrolled in the Preparatory Department at Oberlin College. He enrolled in the graduate program in Theology at Oberlin in preparation for later legal study. Although he obtained a Master's degree, he was denied entry to law school, and he read law under a lawyer in Elyria. He was the first Black lawyer in Ohio admitted to the bar, in 1854.
Langston married Caroline Wall, a student at Oberlin, settled in Brownhelm, OH, and established a law practice. He was elected to the post of Town Clerk in 1855, perhaps the first African American elected to public office in the United States, and later, after he moved back to Oberlin in 1856, he was elected city councilman and later to the board of education.
Langston helped create the Republican Party in 1854. With the aid of his brothers Gideon and Charles, Langston organized antislavery societies at both the state and local levels. He helped runaway slaves to escape along the Ohio border as part of the Underground Railroad.
He played a major role in recruiting Black soldiers for the Union Army during the Civil War. When the war ended, he was appointed inspector general for the Freedmen's Bureau, a federal agency created to assist freed slaves.
Langston moved to Washington in 1868 to organize and become dean of the first Black law school in the nation at Howard University. He also became the first Black to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. He was elected a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876, and a year later named U.S. minister to Haiti.
Langston returned to Virginia in 1885 to serve as the first president of what is now Virginia State University. In 1888, he ran as an independent for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. He won, the first African American elected to Congress from Virginia, but his victory was contested for 18 months and he served only 6 months before being unseated in the next election.
Langston retired to Washington, where he wrote his autobiography, "From the Virginia plantation to the National Capitol: or, The only Negro representative in Congress from the Old Dominion," published in 1894. He died in 1897.
Langston was born free to a white plantation owner John Quarles and Lucy Jane Langston, a slave. He was the youngest of four children. His older brother, Charles Henry, became noted abolitionist Charles Henry Langston, and John was the great-uncle of renowned poet Langston Hughes.
When he was 4, both his parents died and he went with a family friend to Oberlin, Ohio. At the age of 14, Langston enrolled in the Preparatory Department at Oberlin College. He enrolled in the graduate program in Theology at Oberlin in preparation for later legal study. Although he obtained a Master's degree, he was denied entry to law school, and he read law under a lawyer in Elyria. He was the first Black lawyer in Ohio admitted to the bar, in 1854.
Langston married Caroline Wall, a student at Oberlin, settled in Brownhelm, OH, and established a law practice. He was elected to the post of Town Clerk in 1855, perhaps the first African American elected to public office in the United States, and later, after he moved back to Oberlin in 1856, he was elected city councilman and later to the board of education.
Langston helped create the Republican Party in 1854. With the aid of his brothers Gideon and Charles, Langston organized antislavery societies at both the state and local levels. He helped runaway slaves to escape along the Ohio border as part of the Underground Railroad.
He played a major role in recruiting Black soldiers for the Union Army during the Civil War. When the war ended, he was appointed inspector general for the Freedmen's Bureau, a federal agency created to assist freed slaves.
Langston moved to Washington in 1868 to organize and become dean of the first Black law school in the nation at Howard University. He also became the first Black to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. He was elected a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876, and a year later named U.S. minister to Haiti.
Langston returned to Virginia in 1885 to serve as the first president of what is now Virginia State University. In 1888, he ran as an independent for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. He won, the first African American elected to Congress from Virginia, but his victory was contested for 18 months and he served only 6 months before being unseated in the next election.
Langston retired to Washington, where he wrote his autobiography, "From the Virginia plantation to the National Capitol: or, The only Negro representative in Congress from the Old Dominion," published in 1894. He died in 1897.
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The founder of New York City's first kindergarten for African American children was no stranger to 'firsts.' In fact, some 101 years before Rosa Parks refused to a obey a bus driver's order, Elizabeth Jennings Graham (in 1854) sued NYC's Third Avenue Railway Company for forcibly removing her from a streetcar because of her race. With the help of a 24-year-old lawyer named Chester Arthur (yes, that Chester Arthur), Jennings Graham won her lawsuit, which eventually lead to the desegregation of New York's public transit system in 1861.
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You get 5 free sessions. Damn registration is closed.
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At the time, Harrison was facing expulsion for the BB gun being visible during the stream. The visibility of the BB gun was being treated as though the 9-year-old boy had literally brought a gun to his school campus.
School won't remove suspension from record of child, 9, after teacher saw BB gun in virtual classroom
A school board has refused to remove the suspension of a 9-year-old child off the permanent record after a teacher saw a BB gun during virtual classroom. The board attempted to paint the child's teacher as the victim.
www.lawenforcementtoday.com
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The Chief Rocka' Frankie Crocker...
Frankie "Hollywood" Crocker (December 18, 1937, Buffalo, New York – October 21, 2000, aged 62 North Miami Beach, Florida). He was an African American radio personality, entertainer, administrator, and producer.
Born in Buffalo, NY, Crocker began his radio career at Williamsville, NY; station WUFO, while studying pre-law at the University of Buffalo. His other jobs included N.Y. radio stations WWRL and Top 40 station WMCA. As program director at WBLS-FM and WLIB-AM in the early '70s, Crocker began to shape an innovative and influential radio format. That style would become known as progressive R&B while he garnered the top spot in the ratings. His timing was perfect as a new kind of R&B station was beginning to spring up on the FM dial around the country. Their formats emphasized less (if any) talk, a cross blend of jazz, pop/rock, sophisticated soul, funk, and R&B. The sound was similar to the sound of the smooth jazz stations of the late '90s. The Venus Flytrap characters on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati showed a slight resemblance to Crocker's sound and style.
As his reputation grew, Crocker was offered different opportunities. He appeared in the movies Cleopatra Jones and Five on the Black Hand Side. He released two disco-oriented albums on Casablanca Records as Frankie Crocker's Heart and Soul Orchestra, The Heart and Soul Orchestra, Love in C Minor, and Disco Suite Symphony No. 1 in Rhythm and Excellence. Later he hosted NBC TV's Friday Night Videos, was one of the first video DJs on cable channel VH1, had his own syndicated radio show, Classic Soul Countdown, and worked at WRKS-New York. His skills led to him programming and/or working at KUTE, Los Angeles, WGCI and WNUA, Chicago, and WKKS, St. Louis.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a DJ/programmer. Crocker filled the R&B format with a wide-reaching musical palette that included music from just about every genre. Frankie Crocker died from pancreatic cancer in Miami, FL, on October 21, 2000.
Frankie "Hollywood" Crocker (December 18, 1937, Buffalo, New York – October 21, 2000, aged 62 North Miami Beach, Florida). He was an African American radio personality, entertainer, administrator, and producer.
Born in Buffalo, NY, Crocker began his radio career at Williamsville, NY; station WUFO, while studying pre-law at the University of Buffalo. His other jobs included N.Y. radio stations WWRL and Top 40 station WMCA. As program director at WBLS-FM and WLIB-AM in the early '70s, Crocker began to shape an innovative and influential radio format. That style would become known as progressive R&B while he garnered the top spot in the ratings. His timing was perfect as a new kind of R&B station was beginning to spring up on the FM dial around the country. Their formats emphasized less (if any) talk, a cross blend of jazz, pop/rock, sophisticated soul, funk, and R&B. The sound was similar to the sound of the smooth jazz stations of the late '90s. The Venus Flytrap characters on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati showed a slight resemblance to Crocker's sound and style.
As his reputation grew, Crocker was offered different opportunities. He appeared in the movies Cleopatra Jones and Five on the Black Hand Side. He released two disco-oriented albums on Casablanca Records as Frankie Crocker's Heart and Soul Orchestra, The Heart and Soul Orchestra, Love in C Minor, and Disco Suite Symphony No. 1 in Rhythm and Excellence. Later he hosted NBC TV's Friday Night Videos, was one of the first video DJs on cable channel VH1, had his own syndicated radio show, Classic Soul Countdown, and worked at WRKS-New York. His skills led to him programming and/or working at KUTE, Los Angeles, WGCI and WNUA, Chicago, and WKKS, St. Louis.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a DJ/programmer. Crocker filled the R&B format with a wide-reaching musical palette that included music from just about every genre. Frankie Crocker died from pancreatic cancer in Miami, FL, on October 21, 2000.
