If we had never come to America, there would be very few crops that flourished because America's AGRICULTURE was built on the labor of Africans. There would be no cities with tall skyscrapers because Alexander Mils, a Black man, invented the ELEVATOR. There would be few, if any, cars because Richard Spikes, an African [...]
( A discussion involving: Marcus, ... Clive, and >> Denise ) .... Marcus, you know I don’t think that Africans like African Americans. Say what? .... Based on what I've seen, in my neighborhood, which has Africans, African Americans and Caribbeans, the Africans don’t like the African Americans. Clive, why you say that? ... [...]
Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? But it shouldn’t. Of the one billion Roman Catholics in the world today, at least 20% (200 million) are Black. Africa alone has 130 million Black Catholics. In fact, the largest Catholic Church building in the world is found in Africa, the cathedral in Yamassoukra, the capital city [...]
Blacks have been living in Britain from prehistoric times to the present era. Irish tradition tells of a giant-like race of Africans headed by a king with a retinue of priests called Fomorians. They were depicted as gloomy sea giants who brought their skills from Africa via Spain. The original Celtic priesthood were Blacks. [...]
Have you ever noticed how the Continents look like they could all fit together in a giant jigsaw puzzle? Well that’s because they were, all together that is, until about 200 million years ago. And then Pangaea, the super-continent, began to break apart. The Earth’s surface, its "crust," is made up of a number [...]
Have you ever been asked, “Of the two and their philosophies, King and Malcolm, which do you prefer?" Everything has its opposite. Black has white. Night has day. Hard, soft. Hot, cold. If there was a Martin Luther King Jr., there had to be a Malcolm X. Martin Luther King, history remembers. Malcolm [...]
(Today it was 100 degrees in NYC. Whenever it gets this hot, Spike Lee's 1989 film, Do The Right Thing, set in one block in Brooklyn on the hottest day of the year, always comes to mind. . . ) A big white Cadillac with three Italian Americans in it pulls up to the [...]
Astronaut MAE JEMISON flew as Mission Science Specialist on a seven day flight aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. She was born in Decatur, Alabama on October 17, 1956 just as the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, which launched the civil rights movement, was reaching its climax. Dr. Jemison entered Stanford University at [...]
Contrary to popular belief, African Americans are by no means a homogeneous population. They are composed of a variety, of now overlapping, but originally much more distinct, ethnic strands. In coastal South Carolina, there are the Gullah people, and in coastal Georgia the Geechies. (The two terms are often used interchangeably.) The Gullah are [...]
What does the word “minority” mean? Why do we call ourselves “minorities?” And why do Latinos and Asians also do the same? Minority means “less than 50%.” Majority means “more than 50%.” If whites are but 20% of the world’s population, how then can Blacks, Latinos, Asians and Native Americans be seen as “the [...]