February 2012
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MALCOLM X: A LIFE OF REINVENTION: Malcolmology... →
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Malcolm X woke up on the morning of February 21, 1965 at the New York Hilton to a menacing voice over the phone: “Wake up, brother.” He was scheduled to speak later that afternoon at an OAAU rally along with guest speaker Reverend Milton Galamison. There were several oddities at the Audubon…
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“You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In...”
– Thomas Sankara
Like Patrice Lumumba – an earlier principled political leader who was a violent casualty of the cold war – Sankara proved to be a creative and unconventional politician. separate from the interests of the major powers (in his case, France, the Soviet Union and the United...
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Akala - Find no enemy
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Recommendation: Black Women in History on Stuff...
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Stuff You Missed in History Class
There’s Always a Seat for Queen Nzinga
The Freedom Rides: CORE’s First Wave & The Freedom Rides: Nashville Steps Up
Marian Anderson: The Lady from Philadelphia
Who was America’s First Black Millionairess?
The Craft’s Escape to Freedom
Nefertiti and the Heretic Pharaoh
Josephine Baker, the Toast of Paris
Mary Seacole and the...
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Afro-Latin Americans
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An Afro-Latin American is a Latin American person who is, at least in part, of African heritage or lineage.
African slaves were oriignally brought to America because of the rapidly decreasing numbers of Native American laborers available for work on the plantations. They were mostly brought from the West African nations of Nigeria, Ghana, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Gold Coast, and...
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Finds in Oman Push Back Date of Modern Human...
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New discoveries by an international team of archaeologists and geologists in the Dhofar Mountains of southern Oman are shedding new light on when and how archaic modern humans first migrated out of their African homeland to occupy Eurasia.
Led by Dr. Jeffrey Rose of the University of Birmingham, the team found over 100 new sites that featured “Nubian Middle Stone Age...
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This is Africa →
A global perspective on Africa This is Africa, a new publication from the Financial Times Ltd, seeks to examine African business and politics in a global context and to make sense of the relationships that Africa is building with the rest of the world. It aims to challenge international preconceptions about the continent and to identify the opportunities and the risks in this dynamic business...
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Whitney Houston, Superstar of Records, Films, Dies... →
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Here’s an early version of the story on Whitney Houston’s death.
Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music’s queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, has died. She was 48.
Publicist Kristen Foster said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unclear.
At her peak in the 1980s and ’90s, Houston the...