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Book Excerpt Of The Week: Part 1- “Survival Strategies For Africans In America” By: Anthony Browder

“We would know that the early Greek and Roman Christians portrayed Jesus as a person of African ancestry. Justinian I, the Eastern Roman emperor who ruled from 527 to 565 A.C.E., commissioned coins to be minted with the face of an African Jesus on one side and his own distinctively European face on the other. […]

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Book Excerpt Of The Week: Part 2- “Medical Apartheid” By: Harriet A. Washington

“All these precepts of scientific racism, although convenient for the slave owner and physician, were highly illogical articles of faith. So was the supposed inferior intelligence of blacks, because planters and doctors behaved in many contexts as though they held the abilities and judgment of blacks in high regard, enjoying slaves in responsible positions as […]

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Book Excerpt Of The Week: Part 1- “Medical Apartheid” By: Harriet A. Washington

“Within a century, reproductive coercion had taken a 180-degree turn for black women. During slavery, black women had been forced to procreate, but now they were being forced into sterility. The consistent factor was white control. Women were also forced into sterility by governmental welfare programs…While a social worker in upstate New York during the […]

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Book Excerpt Of The Week- Part 4: “The Isis Papers” By: Dr. Frances Cress Welsing

“Black people must not only commit themselves to combating inferiorization through the struggle for maximal development, we must, as a part of that struggle, begin to establish standards of academic achievement and codes will serve as the fundamental basis of developing Black self- and group-respect. Without true self-respect, all efforts for achievement will be in […]

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Book Excerpt Of The Week- Part 3: “The Isis Papers” By: Dr. Frances Cress Welsing

“During periods of crisis and stress, the easiest thing to do as an expression of our pain, despair and hopelessness is to moan, groan, cry or attempt to escape through alcohol, other drugs, fantasy, laughter or just fun and games. However, another possible behavioral response, which channels the body energy upward and onward as opposed […]

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Book Excerpt Of The Week- Part 2: “The Isis Papers” By: Dr. Frances Cress Welsing

“Inferiorization is essential to the process of oppression. It ensures that the oppressors need not be troubled to hold the oppressed constantly under gun and key to keep them in the oppressed state; it keeps the oppressed from effectively challenging the oppressive process and system. In this way, the oppressors mold the oppressed to share […]

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Book Excerpt Of The Week- Part 1: “The Isis Papers” By: Dr. Frances Cress Welsing

“The destruction of Black males now is indirect, so that the Black male victims themselves can be led to participate in- and then be blamed for- their own mass deaths. However, through close examination and an understanding of the ultimate objective of white supremacy as collective white genetic survival, the steps to massive Black male […]

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The Importance of Punctuation

In a world where abbreviated text messages are a popular form of communication, check out this passage on the importance of punctuation: “Just look at the difference between these two love notes: My Dear Pat, The dinner we shared the other night- it was absolutely lovely! Not in my wildest dreams could I ever imagine […]

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The Importance Of Knowing Your History: Part 6

“When we get into social amnesia- into forgetting our history- we also forget or misinterpret the history and motives of others as well as our own motives. The way to know other people is to know one’s self. The way to learn of our own creation, how we came to be what we are, is […]

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The Importance Of Knowing Your History: Part 5

“As Russell Jacoby says in his book, ‘Social Amnesia’: “Exactly because the past is forgotten, it rues unchallenged. To be transcended it first must be remembered. Social amnesia is society’s repression of remembrance.’ Simply because we choose to forget a traumatic event, simply because we choose not to learn of a traumatic history and a […]

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