African Descendants ✊🏿 Black People - Americas, Africa, Caribbean Culture Discussion

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South Africa has the highest level of income inequality in the world.

Omg I'm so shocked

Apartheid was like yesterday. Ironically the same economic anxiety plaguing white Americans are happening there with the increase in black leadership. The poor white population is growing.

 

[gry60]

BBC World Service - Witness History, African history

Listen to and download our programmes

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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[layziegunts]

word

 

[everynowandthen]

 

[Arthur Shelby]

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[Arthur Shelby]

wrong thread

 

[gry60]

Stunning images of elegance and strength

A book of portraits captures the style and resilience of West African women over the decades. Its author Catherine McKinley tells the story behind the collection.

www.bbc.com

 

[layziegunts]

MLK at Garvey grave

 

[marikomorose]

Great article. Please read:

How Umar Johnson Cured Me of Being a Hidden Hotep

I am a recovering hidden Hotep. Mind you, not the ankh-wearing, incense-selling, lecture-women-about-their menstrual-cycles kind of Hotep. I was more Hotep-adjacent. Hidden beneath my public-Ivy ed…

drjasonjohnson.com

"A student who went by the name Chinedu told me afterward: “I’m a gay black man. I don’t agree with all that he says, but we have to meet at the table.”

Another man I spoke to was standing in the aisles yelling at the moderator: “I need this! I need this!” He told me that Johnson was the only man out there who spoke to men like him, that he’d been through some thangs that only Johnson could explain.
It was painful to watch, but in that moment it dawned on me why some part of me had clung to men like Johnson despite my knowing full well that they trafficked in papier-mâché Pan-Africanism. Umar Johnson was a way of clinging to my intellectual youth, when fighting white supremacy just meant giving provocative speeches, raising some money and drinking alkaline water."

 

[marikomorose]

"Join Brooklyn's finest, Yaya Bey & Friends, for a night of celebration this Juneteenth! Featuring a live performance by Yaya Bey and DJ sets by BOSTON CHERY & Run P."

JUNETEENTH WITH YAYA BEY & FRIENDS

LIVE IN THE SULTAN ROOM

www.eventbrite.com

Location:
The Sultan Room
234 Starr Street
Brooklyn, NY 11237

Date & Time:
Sat, June 19, 2021, 6:00 PM EDT
Doors at 6:00 PM

I can't attend due to not being in NY atm. But if you're in the city & want to go to this I'll buy you a ticket. If you have a s.o. I'll pay for both of your tickets. Consider it a Juneteenth gift from yours truly. Just lmk:

 

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[Nouss]

Former South African President Jacob Zuma sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court | CNN

South Africa's highest court found former President Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 15 months in prison on Tuesday, a landmark move in the country's long-running corruption saga.

www.cnn.com

 

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Former South African President Jacob Zuma sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court | CNN

South Africa's highest court found former President Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 15 months in prison on Tuesday, a landmark move in the country's long-running corruption saga.

www.cnn.com

hopefully he doesn’t see any jail time

 

[Present]

hopefully he doesn’t see any jail time

Why not?

 

[gry60]

Mali’s cultural hero Abdel Kader Haidara: how a librarian saved the treasures of Timbuktu

The Islamic State ransacked and demolished mosques, shrines, churches, libraries, and historical monuments across the Middle East and North Africa. There were a few heroes who stood against them. We wrote about one of them, Syria’s Khalid al-Assad, here. Here is another, librarian Abdel Kader...

bookhaven.stanford.edu

The Islamic State ransacked and demolished mosques, shrines, churches, libraries, and historical monuments across the Middle East and North Africa. There were a few heroes who stood against them. We wrote about one of them, Syria’s Khalid al-Assad, here. Here is another, librarian Abdel Kader Haidara, who rescued Timbuktu’s cultural treasures after the jihadist occupation of Mali in 2012.

According to the Wall Street Journal: “The prizes in Mr. Haidara’s own private collection, housed in his Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, include a tiny, irregularly shaped Quran from the 12th century, written on parchment made from the dried skin of a fish and glittering with illuminated blue Arabic letters and droplets of gold. His collection also boasts many secular volumes: manuscripts about astronomy, poetry, mathematics, occult sciences and medicine, such as a 254-page volume on surgery and elixirs derived from birds, lizards and plants, written in Timbuktu in 1684.”

 

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According to the FBI, in 2019 out of the 4,930 reported "48.5 percent were victims of crimes motivated by offenders’ anti-Black or African American bias."

Victims

ucr.fbi.gov

 

[layziegunts]

CNN - Haitian President killed at home

 

[DripNick]

CNN - Haitian President killed at home

Smh, prayers up to the Haitian people.
Sonje lapli ki leve mayi ou

 

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[Mister Meaner]

 

[gry60]

John Adams Supports Toussaint Louverture, Horrifies Jefferson - New England Historical Society

Toussaint Louverture was a self-educated former slave who led the Haitian Revolution against France. President John Adams supported him, to Thomas Jefferson's dismay.

www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com

SECRET DINNER
At 3 pm on Dec. 26, 1798, Joseph Bunel went to a private home in Philadelphia for a secret dinner with Secretary of State Timothy Pickering and a few friends.

Bunel was a white, French-born merchant married to a free-black Creole. He supported the Haitian Revolution and became Louverture’s trade envoy. Over dinner, Bunel told Pickering and his guests that Louverture offered to protect U.S. shipping against privateers. In exchange, he wanted trade and diplomatic support.

Adams then got word of the offer and concluded he had to do something. Within six months, the United States and Saint-Domingue entered into a treaty that reopened trade.

But Adams did more than that. He had intelligence that the Dominguans had enough strength to win independence from France. So Adams supported Toussaint Louverture with economic aid, arms, munitions and the U.S. Navy.

Louverture then faced a mutiny from Andre Rigaud, his mixed-race rival who controlled the southern part of the island. In the spring of 1800, Adams sent five military vessels — the USS Constitution, USS Boston, USS Connecticut, USS General Greene and USS Norfolk — to Louverture’s aid. It was the U.S. Navy’s first military action on behalf of a foreign ally.

American commanders planned joint operations with their multiracial Dominguan counterparts. They guarded the southern coast and bombarded a port town held by Rigaud.

The Navy brass also did something unusual: placed U.S. ships and crews under Dominguan command. White U.S. Naval officers dined with black Dominguan officers, finding themselves in the racial minority.

 

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JDOS

 

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