The green and white gigantic metal bird stood motionless as it was fed people and baggage. The people in a stream through a rubber extension attached to its side, the baggage through a ramp leading up into its belly. Its fellows hummed and droned nearby ascending the heavens one at a time, as others dropped from the [...]
She ran up to him calling his name. He turned and watched her, lovely limbs churning in an endearingly awkward jaunt across the hot white sand. She was a supple, dark tropic goddess. She kissed him, and they plodded along arm-in-arm. They passed three black cooks dressed in white long-sleeved outfits wearing the tall [...]
On the eve of the Second World War, Germany, in 1936, hosted the Olympics, giving Adolf Hitler the chance to put on display what he called his “Supermen of the Aryan Race.” However, at the premier event, the 100 meter dash, African American Jesse Owens came out on top in a stunning victory for [...]
A White coach, curses, bullies, hits and hurls homophobic slurs at his mainly Black basketball team for years. No one says anything until a Black assistant coach brings the matter to light. The offending White coach is given a slap on the wrist. The Black assistant coach is fired. The fired Black assistant coach [...]
October 14, 2012. . . In today's New York Times there is a lead article about Affirmative Action. The Supreme Court is about to make a major decision on this issue. Here is a direct quote from the Times piece, "Outright racism certainly exists, and colleges would have a hard time taking it into [...]
(This is a 3,000 year old carving found in the tomb of SETI I.) An animal bone, with markings used for counting, discovered in South Africa is estimated to be more than 35,000 years old. Another bone, the Ishango Bone, found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, not only has markings for counting, but [...]
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. [...]
The uplifting, inspiring, empowering music of Bob Marley is to Dancehall what the rousing, revolutionary music of Public Enemy is to the pop tunes that dominate hip hop today. . . Bob Marley took the words, beliefs and rhythms of the Rastafarian movement and brought them to the Jamaican public, the American public and ultimately to the entire world. Freedom fighters in [...]
The most common answer, “He was not blond and blue-eyed like they show him in movies and paintings. He was darker than that, like the people who live in North Africa today.” However, the average American today looks nothing like the average American 500 years ago when Columbus arrived. So why expect the North [...]
The most common answer goes like this. He was not blond and blue-eyed like they show in the movies and in popular paintings. He was darker than that like the people who live in North Africa today. But there is a problem with that response. The average American today looks nothing like the average [...]