Tagged: history

  1. nok-ind: Nubia, John Biggers (1924-2001) nok-ind: Nubia, John Biggers (1924-2001)

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    Nubia, John Biggers (1924-2001)

  2. nilevalleystudies: Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia nilevalleystudies: Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia

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    Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia

  3. vintageblackglamour: Harry Belafonte visiting The Supremes, Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson, backstage at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles in August 1965. Photo: Bettman/Corbis vintageblackglamour: Harry Belafonte visiting The Supremes, Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson, backstage at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles in August 1965. Photo: Bettman/Corbis

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    Harry Belafonte visiting The Supremes, Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson, backstage at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles in August 1965. Photo: Bettman/Corbis

  4. nilevalleystudies: The Sutens of Kemet New Kingdom nilevalleystudies: The Sutens of Kemet New Kingdom

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    The Sutens of Kemet

    New Kingdom

  5. anuraglahiri: Yuri Kochiyama is a Japanese American human rights activist, but often remembered for her work in The Black Panther Party.In 1960, Kochiyama and her spouse moved to Harlem in New York City and joined the Harlem Parents Committee. She became acquainted with Malcolm X and was a member of his Organization of Afro-American Unity. She was also present at Malcolm X’s assassination on February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, and held him in her arms as he lay dying.In 1977, Kochiyama joined the group of Puerto Ricans that took over the Statue of Liberty to draw attention to the struggle for Puerto Rican independence.Over the years, Kochiyama has dedicated herself to various causes, such as the rights of political prisoners, freeing Mumia Abu-Jamal, nuclear disarmament, and reparations to Japanese Americans who were interned during the war.In 2005, Kochiyama was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize through the “1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005” project.

    anuraglahiri:

    Yuri Kochiyama is a Japanese American human rights activist, but often remembered for her work in The Black Panther Party.

    In 1960, Kochiyama and her spouse moved to Harlem in New York City and joined the Harlem Parents Committee. She became acquainted with Malcolm X and was a member of his Organization of Afro-American Unity. She was also present at Malcolm X’s assassination on February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, and held him in her arms as he lay dying.

    In 1977, Kochiyama joined the group of Puerto Ricans that took over the Statue of Liberty to draw attention to the struggle for Puerto Rican independence.

    Over the years, Kochiyama has dedicated herself to various causes, such as the rights of political prisoners, freeing Mumia Abu-Jamal, nuclear disarmament, and reparations to Japanese Americans who were interned during the war.

    In 2005, Kochiyama was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize through the “1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005” project.

    (via neoafrican)

  6. lebeam: The throne of H.I.M Emperor Haile Selassie at the National Museum of Ethiopia Looted by Italy in 1935 & returned in 1972. lebeam: The throne of H.I.M Emperor Haile Selassie at the National Museum of Ethiopia Looted by Italy in 1935 & returned in 1972.
    lebeam: The throne of H.I.M Emperor Haile Selassie at the National Museum of Ethiopia Looted by Italy in 1935 & returned in 1972. lebeam: The throne of H.I.M Emperor Haile Selassie at the National Museum of Ethiopia Looted by Italy in 1935 & returned in 1972.

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    The throne of H.I.M Emperor Haile Selassie at the National Museum of Ethiopia

    Looted by Italy in 1935 & returned in 1972.

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  7. getperspectiveb: Haile Selassie 1936 Time Man of the Year

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    Haile Selassie

    1936 Time Man of the Year

  8. The Temple of Isis Pompeii. nok-ind: Two Kemetic/Kushic priest at the Isis temple in Pompeii rome (Isis herculaneum frescoe). The image is not dated however the temple was destroyed in 79CE. It is safe to assume that this picture is much older. Before the advent of the Christian Era, the Roman invention of Christianity (Roman Catholicism) and the change over from Kemet to Rome being the spiritual center of that time period.

    The Temple of Isis Pompeii.

    nok-ind:

    Two Kemetic/Kushic priest at the Isis temple in Pompeii rome (Isis herculaneum frescoe). The image is not dated however the temple was destroyed in 79CE. It is safe to assume that this picture is much older. Before the advent of the Christian Era, the Roman invention of Christianity (Roman Catholicism) and the change over from Kemet to Rome being the spiritual center of that time period.

  9. fyeahblackhistory:

    African Queens

    Excerpt from Max Dashu’s Women’s Power dvd, from the suppressed Histories Archives

    Africa is rich in positive female history and famous for its queens.

    Queen Yaa Asantewaa, Queen Nzingha, Queen Hatshepsut, Queen Nefetari and Queen Cleopatra.

    (via fuckyeahblackhistory)

  10. blackacrylic:

    Malcolm X interview at UC Berkeley [1963]

    I cannot celebrate the life of Malcolm X enough. Malcolm was many things, first and foremost he was a man dedicated wholeheartedly to the interests and aspirations of his people. Malcolm’s ideological progression went from placing the struggle of African-American’s within a national social and political context to placing it within a wider global context. Malcolm X’s personal discovery of self and his commitment to his beliefs have made him more than just an icon of America’s Black Liberation Movement. For me, his journey is emblematic of freedom, justice and equality. Happy Birthday Malcolm!! 

  11. Bishop Marianos of faras with the virgin mary of christ is dated 9th or 10 century AD from the christian kingdom of Faras northern Sudan

    Bishop Marianos of faras with the virgin mary of christ is dated 9th or 10 century AD from the christian kingdom of Faras northern Sudan

  12. The Real Eve (Discovery Channel)

    Broadcast (2002) Narrated by Danny Glover, “The Real Eve” reveals that our shared genetic heritage links every living person on earth and traces the expansion of modern humans throughout the world. The discovery of the Eve gene stunned the world. It seems we could all be descended from just one female who lived in Africa. In this telling anthropological video, we access the very latest DNA reconstructions, and for the first time, tell conclusively the story of where, when and how the human race came about and then populated the world. The real Eve refers to Mitochondrial Eve, a name used for the most recent common ancestor of all humans in the matrilineal (mother to daughter) line of descent. Scientists have traced the human race to one female in Africa several million years ago and traced the migration pattern of her descendants as they spread across the earth

  13. nilevalleystudies: The Sutens of Kemet Middle Kingdom nilevalleystudies: The Sutens of Kemet Middle Kingdom

    nilevalleystudies:

    The Sutens of Kemet

    Middle Kingdom

  14. AN EXAMPLE OF AFRICAN MEDICAL SCIENCE. ILLUSTRATION OF AFRICAN DOCTORS IN 19TH CENTURY (1879) KAHARA,UGANDA PERFORMING A CAESARIAN SECTION. SUCCESSFUL EXAMPLES OF THIS OPERATION WERE VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN IN EUROPE AT THE TIME. Africans were performing many advanced medical procedures long before they had been conceived in Europe this is just one of many examples. The British traveler R.W. Felkin who reported this noted that the healer used banana wine to semi-intoxicate the woman and to cleanse his hands and her abdomen prior to surgery. He used a midline incision and applied cautery to minimize hemorrhaging. He massaged the uterus to make it contract but did not suture it; the abdominal wound was pinned with iron needles and dressed with a paste prepared from roots. The patient recovered well, and Felkin concluded that this technique was well-developed and had clearly been employed for a long time. Similar reports come from Rwanda, where botanical preparations were also used to anesthetize the patient and promote wound healing. Reference: “Notes on Labour in Central Africa” published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 20, April 1884, pages 922-930. Click here for more. AN EXAMPLE OF AFRICAN MEDICAL SCIENCE. ILLUSTRATION OF AFRICAN DOCTORS IN 19TH CENTURY (1879) KAHARA,UGANDA PERFORMING A CAESARIAN SECTION. SUCCESSFUL EXAMPLES OF THIS OPERATION WERE VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN IN EUROPE AT THE TIME. Africans were performing many advanced medical procedures long before they had been conceived in Europe this is just one of many examples. The British traveler R.W. Felkin who reported this noted that the healer used banana wine to semi-intoxicate the woman and to cleanse his hands and her abdomen prior to surgery. He used a midline incision and applied cautery to minimize hemorrhaging. He massaged the uterus to make it contract but did not suture it; the abdominal wound was pinned with iron needles and dressed with a paste prepared from roots. The patient recovered well, and Felkin concluded that this technique was well-developed and had clearly been employed for a long time. Similar reports come from Rwanda, where botanical preparations were also used to anesthetize the patient and promote wound healing. Reference: “Notes on Labour in Central Africa” published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 20, April 1884, pages 922-930. Click here for more.

    AN EXAMPLE OF AFRICAN MEDICAL SCIENCE. ILLUSTRATION OF AFRICAN DOCTORS IN 19TH CENTURY (1879) KAHARA,UGANDA PERFORMING A CAESARIAN SECTION. SUCCESSFUL EXAMPLES OF THIS OPERATION WERE VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN IN EUROPE AT THE TIME.

    Africans were performing many advanced medical procedures long before they had been conceived in Europe this is just one of many examples.

    The British traveler R.W. Felkin who reported this noted that the healer used banana wine to semi-intoxicate the woman and to cleanse his hands and her abdomen prior to surgery. He used a midline incision and applied cautery to minimize hemorrhaging. He massaged the uterus to make it contract but did not suture it; the abdominal wound was pinned with iron needles and dressed with a paste prepared from roots. The patient recovered well, and Felkin concluded that this technique was well-developed and had clearly been employed for a long time. Similar reports come from Rwanda, where botanical preparations were also used to anesthetize the patient and promote wound healing.

    Reference: “Notes on Labour in Central Africa” published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 20, April 1884, pages 922-930.

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  15. ourafrica: HANNIBAL - RULER OF CARTHAGE (Mordern day Tunisia)Regarded as one of the greatest generals of all time, Hannibal and his overpowering African armies conquered major portions of Spain and Italy and came close to defeating the mighty Roman Empire.Born in the North African country of Carthage, Hannibal became general of the army at age twenty-five. His audacious moves-such as marching his army with African war elephants through the treacherous Alps to surprise and conquer Northern Italy-and his tactical genius, as illustrated by the Battle of Cannae where his seemingly trapped army cleverly surrounded and destroyed a much larger Roman force, won him recognition which has spanned more than 2004 years. This is Africa, our Africa Click here for more. ourafrica: HANNIBAL - RULER OF CARTHAGE (Mordern day Tunisia)Regarded as one of the greatest generals of all time, Hannibal and his overpowering African armies conquered major portions of Spain and Italy and came close to defeating the mighty Roman Empire.Born in the North African country of Carthage, Hannibal became general of the army at age twenty-five. His audacious moves-such as marching his army with African war elephants through the treacherous Alps to surprise and conquer Northern Italy-and his tactical genius, as illustrated by the Battle of Cannae where his seemingly trapped army cleverly surrounded and destroyed a much larger Roman force, won him recognition which has spanned more than 2004 years. This is Africa, our Africa Click here for more.

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    HANNIBAL - RULER OF CARTHAGE (Mordern day Tunisia)
    Regarded as one of the greatest generals of all time, Hannibal and his overpowering African armies conquered major portions of Spain and Italy and came close to defeating the mighty Roman Empire.

    Born in the North African country of Carthage, Hannibal became general of the army at age twenty-five. His audacious moves-such as marching his army with African war elephants through the treacherous Alps to surprise and conquer Northern Italy-and his tactical genius, as illustrated by the Battle of Cannae where his seemingly trapped army cleverly surrounded and destroyed a much larger Roman force, won him recognition which has spanned more than 2004 years.


    This is Africa, our Africa

    Click here for more.