“In the early 1700s, as America was being ravaged by smallpox, Onesimus, an African slave who belonged to Cotton Mather, told of a technique, long practiced in Africa, to prevent smallpox by introducing the ‘pus from the ripe pustules’ of a smallpox patient into a small incision on the arm of an uninfected patient. The […]
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Black History Fact Of The Day
17-year-old Claressa Shields recently became the first American boxer, and first African-American boxer to win an Olympic gold medal in women’s boxing. Tweet
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“Sometimes they insult our Black women in ways we don’t even realize, it’s almost on code. What I mean by code is, for example, when a White man dresses like a woman, he is called a transvestite or a cross dresser. But when RuPaul dresses like a woman, the same media refers to him as […]
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I’m reading a book that described Christopher Columbus’s expeditions as, “the globalization of greed.” This description puts into historical perspective the mores and values of present day society. Here’s how the author astutely describes Columbus and his travels: “Columbus had set out from a Europe ravaged by poverty, violence, famine, and the Black Death to […]
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HISTORY: “History is what creates a shared identity in a people. It is based on that shared identity that they act collectively. To take away a people’s history, to degrade their history is to degrade their sense of shared identity, is to remove the basis upon which they must behave collectively and reach their goals […]
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Lillian Evanti, who was born Annie Lillian Evans, is credited as being the first African American to sing grand opera professionally. She was also one of the founders of National Negro Opera Company. Lillian Evanti also spoke five languages. Tweet
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“For what is the value of democracy if our opinions are formed, our appetites manipulated, and our values shaped, our decisions made, our most fundamental needs camouflaged by the puppet-masters of politics and profit?” -Randall Robinson Tweet
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“I am reminded constantly of Gandhi’s statement, ‘Be the change you want to see in the world.’ For many this is an elusive idea. The notion that somehow me changing is going to affect the rest of reality seems well…like a sweet idea. But when you look at the work that Radin, Sheldrake, Hagelin or […]
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“In the 60’s we all talked about the Military Industrial Complex (MIC). And while that is still quite an operative force, quietly and steadily over the years it has been supplanted by the Entertainment Industrial Complex (EIC). This impacts everyone’s life moment by moment a hundred times more than the MIC. You see, the EIC […]
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Philip Emeagwali is an expert in astronomy, physics, and math. The computers he invented are currently being used to forecast the weather and predict future global warming. Tweet
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