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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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 »
Byts and Bytes
Posted in Africa, AfroSpear, Afrospear bloggers, AfroSphere, Arizona, Black History, Colourism, Critical Thinking, Cuba, Geopolitics, History, Immigration, Mexico, NAACP, Racism, Stratfor, U.S.A on August 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
1. “It is easy enough to dismiss those who persist in believing that the first successful African slave revolt took place in Haiti. Arab historians have themselves established the contrary, and in contemporaneous detail, so that it is near common knowledge that a revolt of epical dimensions took place at least a millennium earlier, in [...]
“Juneteenth: A Time for Self-Assessment” by R. Dozier Gray
Posted in African-Americans, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Black History, Critical Thinking, Culture, Juneteenth, Life, Project 21, R. Dozier Gray on June 19, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Commentary submission by Project 21 Juneteenth is the June 19 anniversary of the day in 1865 when the black residents of Galveston, Texas learned about the Emancipation Proclamation and their freedom. Today, its commemoration is a reason for parties and celebration nationwide. More importantly, however, Juneteenth is a time to reflect on where we as blacks [...]
White Approval Addiction–You Got it!
Posted in Black History, Black Issues, Blogging, Critical Thinking, Education, Knowledge, Media, Race Based Politics, White Approval on June 1, 2010 | 13 Comments »
You know you’re addicted. Tell me you’re not, and I’ll tell you that you are. You actually need a white person to approve of you as a black person in order to feel good about yourself. That’s why you’re so mad that there are still racists out there. It’s so upsetting to you because you [...]
Bunny Wailer – Liberation!
Posted in Black History, Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Caribbean, Culture, Jamaica, Liberation, Music, Pan Africanism, Rastafarian, Reggae, sat'day riddymz, Wailers on May 8, 2010 | 15 Comments »
When I was a part of the Uhuru Movement here in Oakland Ca, back in the late 1980s, I was introduced to alot of powerful protest music, and most of it was Roots Reggae. I was already familiar with Bob Marley, since his hit Roots, Rock, Reggae was played “on the R and B” here [...]
Byts and Bytes: Black to the future
Posted in Africa, African Diaspora, African Leadership Academy, African-Americans, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Black History, Byts and Bytes, Critical Thinking, Fihankra International, hip hop music, Leadership, Senegal, Serena Williams, Tavis Smiley, Tom Burrell on March 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
It’s been a while since I dropped a post. I’ve primarily been busy being a husband, father and worker (in that order). The little free time I do have, I’ve been spending reading, as well as watching documentaries, movies, HardTalk (on BBC World), Tavis Smiley and Glenn Beck (more on him in an upcoming post). In a [...]
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