“The Detroit River frontier, which encapsulates the present Detroit are and the counties of Essex and Kent in Ontario, was also a centre of French habitation and hence slavery. Black slavery in the Detroit River district began when the fur trader and explorer Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac traveled to the region and in 1701 […]
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Black History Fact Of The Day
Brazilian gold extraction, like its sugar production, was based on African slavery.” From, “The Hanging of Angelique” By: Afua Cooper Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week: “Success Never Smelled So Sweet” By: Lisa Price
“Here’s what my experience has taught me: When you take responsibility for your choices and always strive to do the right thing, little miracles take place in your life. They happen every day, so keep your eyes and heart open to them. Over time, they build on each other and create momentum in your world. […]
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“Imagine that I’m a professor, and I’ve asked you to come and see me in my office. You walk down a long corridor, come through the doorway, and sit down at a table. In front of you is a sheet of paper with a list of five-word sets. I want you to make a grammatical […]
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“There is a law called Rule 72 (72 divided by interest equals the number of years to double investment) which most people have never been taught. It’s also unfortunate that in America you can receive an elementary, high school and college education and never be taught Rule 72. If you earn 1% on your money, […]
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“Income requires that you continue to work either for someone or yourself.” -From, “Black Economics: Solutions for Economic and Community Empowerment” By: Jawanza Kunjufu Tweet
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“In Africa, land was always recognized as belonging to the community. Each individual within our society had a right to use the land because otherwise he could not earn his living. One cannot have the right to life without also having the right to some means of maintaining life. The Africans right to land was […]
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The people’s power ‘is like the light of the sun, native, original, inherent, and unlimited by human authority,’ while ‘power in the rulers or governors of the people is like the reflected light of the moon, and is borrowed, delegated and limited by the grant of the people.’” -From, “At the Hands of Persons Unknown” […]
Read the rest of this entry »NY Is The Original Trendsetter When It Comes To “Urban Renewal”
“In 1949, the federal government enacted a new approach to the housing problems in cities: urban renewal. The approach was now both in philosophy- for the first time in America, government was given the right to seize an individual’s private property not for its own use but for reassignment to another individual for his use […]
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“Graduating from Fisk University in Nashville in 1888, he took a second bachelor’s degree at Harvard in 1890 and an MA in history there in 1892, then went to Europe for two years’ study at Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Ohio and the next year became the first black to be awarded as Ph.D. at Harvard. In […]
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