Archive for September, 2012

Book Excerpt Of The Week: Part 2- “Survival Strategies For Africans In America” By: Anthony Browder

“Warfare takes on many forms and there are numerous ways to neutralize an adversary. They can be subdued by: low intensity warfare, psychological warfare, germ warfare, chemical warfare, infanticide, genocide, and mentacide (induced madness). Not all wars are fought in order to destroy an opponent, sometimes the objective is to simply terrorize them, or to […]

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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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Puppeteer and Creator of Elmo: Kevin Clash

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Black History Fact Of The Day

Harlem-born Patricia Bath co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness. She also injvented the Laserphaco Probe which provides treatment of cataracts. Tweet

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TODAY IS 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

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth. ” -William Faulkner Tweet

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Quote Of The Day

“Melanin is essentially involved in controlling all mental and physical body activities…The lack of melanin is directly related to the malfunctioning of the central nervous system, while the presence of melanin is directly associated with the proper functioning of the central nervous system. This is why we shouldn’t do drugs because we’re highly melanated people […]

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The Forecasting Of The Gentrification Of Harlem

The following excerpt comes from a book that was written in the 1960s. The book discusses the lives of African-American in America. It’s ironic how a statement made in the ‘60s is so apropos to 2012. “They are raising the rents so high, like that, with a job, the menial jobs that we have or […]

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Black History Fact Of The Day

Clarence Ellis is the first African-American to earn a PhD in computer science. He also helped to develop the graphic user interface (GUI), which became the basis for Apple’s and Microsoft’s operating systems. Tweet

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Quote Of The Day

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your imformed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” -Harlan Ellison Tweet

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