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Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week: “The Makings Of Black Revolutionaries” By: James Forman
“I stood alone on the veranda of the Villa Silla, looking out into the dark night. Around me grew the rich, tropical vegetation, and below the waves of the Atlantic Ocean lapped against the coast. The night was still. I wonder if my ancestors had come from this land. I wondered if they had been […]
Read the rest of this entry »Christopher Columbus: “The Globalization of Greed”
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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