“Keep the faith, baby!” is the title of the 2002 documentary about the life and times of the first Black New York Congressperson, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., starring Harry Lennix and Vanessa Williams. “Keep the faith, baby!” was the favorite saying of this charismatic, revolutionary leader of Harlem, and much of Black America, in [...]
“Keep the faith, baby!” is the title of the 2002 documentary about the life of the first Black New York City Congressman, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. starring Harry Lennix and Vanessa Williams. “Keep the faith, baby!” was the favorite saying of the charismatic revolutionary leader of Harlem, and much of Black America, in the [...]
Every work of fiction is prefaced with the claim, “Any similarity to any real persons or situations is purely coincidental.” But don’t you believe it. Every piece of writing, particularly if it aspires to greatness, contains but a thin veneer over the real. The difference is that here the writer is God and decides the [...]
In 2010 The History Channel released a documentary, “Who Really Discovered America?” It examined claims of a host of reputed pre-1492 arrivals: the Chinese, Welsh, Polynesians, Israelites, Vikings, Irish, Japanese and others. However, neither the name, Ivan Van Sertima, nor his book, They Came Before Columbus, was mentioned even once. They Came Before Columbus [...]
What is the difference between a tribe and an ethnic group? As far as I can tell, nothing really. But don't take my word for it. Let's see what dictionary.com has to say on the matter. "Tribe - any aggregate of people united by ties of descent from a common ancestor, community of customs and traditions, [...]
A big white Cadillac with three Italian Americans in it pulls up to the curb on a summer morn in the heart of Bed Stuy. Thus begins Spike Lee’s third feature film, 1989’s Do The Right Thing. The three, a father and his two sons, get out, and stand before a shuttered store. They [...]
Most of us living in the Diaspora do not know which African ethnic group or groups we hail from. And so, when we honor and revere the Motherland, we tend to see it as a whole. As we evoke this naturally Pan African vision, we tend to focus on ancient Egypt. As the Hyksos [...]
During the selection of the pope, many scoffed at the idea that one of the 12 Black cardinals would be picked. However, it would not have been a first. There have been three African popes: Victor (183-203 A.D.), Gelasius (492-496 A.D.), and Mechiades or Militiades (311-314 A.D.). All of them have been declared saints, [...]
This is a very short post because, as they say, "A picture is worth a thousand words." Let us take a look at the Black Founding Fathers of Modern Civilization. Please click on the link below. Enough said. http://www.beforebc.de/all_africa/02-16-000-00-05.html
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 X, history tries to forget. But each man in his own way dominated the times in which he lived. [...]