Archive for November, 2015

Concentration Camps & Slavery

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Neely Fuller Jr. On How Slaves Are Created

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Quote Of The Day

“I never use the word ‘failure’ because failure doesn’t really exist apart from in our mind. I call it something else: ‘an unsatisfactory outcome’; or even better, ‘a stepping stone to success.’” -Bear Grylls Tweet

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Dr. Yosef Ben Jochannan On Black People Making Their Own Holidays

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Neely Fuller Jr. On How To Work Against The System

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Buy Black Friday Purchase Of The Week: Black Fist T-Shirt

Harlem Underground Clothing Company 20 East 125th Street (Between 5th and Madison) (212) 987-9385 Tweet

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EVERY FRIDAY SHOULD BE BUY BLACK FRIDAY

PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY: The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying […]

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Quote Of The Day

“When one bears in mind that slave folklore was not created to be transcribed on even to be heard by whites, one must conclude that what was eventually transcribed is probably just a small portion of that which died on the night air or continues to live, undetected by scholars, in the folk memory.” -Sterling […]

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WDIA: The First Radio Station In America Programmed For Black Listeners

White-owned radio station WDIA, first went on the air on June 7, 1947. Its original musical format was country and light pop. However, this programming was not successful for station owners John Pepper and Dick Ferguson. Therefore, they decided to change the format and broadcast black music. The change in format made the station a […]

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Black History Fact Of The Day

“The majority of Africans brought to North America to be enslaved were from the central and western areas of Africa- from Congo-Angola, Nigeria, Dahomey, Togo, the Gold Coast, and Sierra Leone.” -From, “Slave Culture” By: Sterling Stuckey Tweet

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