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Save The Children East Africa Appeal

Posted in Activism, Africa, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Bob Marley, Compassion, Famine, Hunger, News, Save The Children, Somalia on August 9, 2011 | 5 Comments »

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Voodoo and Vaccines in Benin, Africa

Posted in Activism, Africa, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Children, Health Care, Life, Vaccinations, Voodoo on June 22, 2011 | 4 Comments »

One.org: Save 4 million children’s lives in 5 years

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Rejuvenated Purpose? AfroSpear 2.0

Posted in Activism, AfroSpear, Afrospear bloggers, AfroSphere, Blogging, Critical Thinking, Leadership on November 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »

A few days ago a member of the AfroSpear Google Group asked this question: “It appears that the Afrosphere Google Group has died a slow and unfortunate death. Is the Afrosphere a group in name only? What should be the next steps, if anything for the Afrosphere Google Group?” First, it’s difficult to keep something [...]

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“The Reason Why The Black Male ‘Crisis’ Is a Hoax” by José Luis Vilson

Posted in Activism, African-Americans, AfroSpear, Afrospear bloggers, AfroSphere, Black Issues, Critical Thinking, Education, Life on November 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Interetsing article in the Huffington Post by educator, writer and AfroSpear Googlegroup blogger: José Luis Vilson. Joel Klein’s recent resignation had an interesting alignment to a report that showed that black males in the United States aren’t doing well in this country. You’ve read the statistics. Only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient [...]

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Kiva: A Story of the Poor

Posted in Activism, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Business, Economics, Kiva, Microfinance on October 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Thanks to Dreena who sent me this video: AfroSpear supports microfinancing towards development (read here). October 2010 AfroSpear Initiatives: 1. Kelvin Rutherford 2. Keyembe 3. Vasi Business Center Group 4. God Bless You Group

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Does The Black Church Care? Mother of Peace Orphanage, Mutoko, Zimbabwe

Posted in Activism, Africa, African Diaspora, AIDS Pandemic, Black Power Movement, Christianity, Mother of Peace Orphanage, Zimbabwe on October 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »

The children with Mama Jean at the Mother of Peace Orphanage in Mutoko, Zimbabwe In 1989 a South African warrior woman was inspired to promote the setting up of orphanages that would care for children who had been abandoned due to the AIDS pandemic. In 1993 five people from Harare took up the challenge to open [...]

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Happy Birthday Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr.

Posted in Activism, Africa, African Diaspora, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Black History, Black pride, Burning Spear, History, Leadership, Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., YouTube on August 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Jamaican National Hero, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, founder of Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), as well as a major influence and inspiration to many of our African, African-American and Caribbean leaders and intellectuals, Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. was born on this date in 1887. Click on his image above to go to his official [...]

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“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also” James 2:26

Posted in Activism, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Christianity, Critical Thinking, God, Jesus Christ, Life, Religion on July 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »

“The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear” Krishnamurti Once a week I volunteer at an inner city mission. Interestingly, even though I had volunteered sporadically before with different organizations and missions, it was after reading Rick Warren’s “The Purpose Driven Life”, that I made a conscious decision to commit to volunteer on a consistent [...]

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