The Zulu Personal Declaration
"We need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love. Love creates patience and patience creates unity." ~Malcolm X
"When a westerner is born, he...
Did You Know that an African-American woman went to the Yukon in the gold rush of 1897?
Did you know that May B. Mason staked a gold claim in the Yukon mining territory in 1898, finding gold dust valued (back then) at $5000?
May is believed to be the first African-American woman to go to the Y...
Magical quotes from ‘The Famished Road’ by Ben Okri
The Famished Road by Ben Okri, won the 1991 Man Booker Prize. The novel has the most beautiful beginning of any novel I have ever read. Classified as "magical realism," the book explores the spiritual belief of...
The Gullah Creole Art of Diane Britton Dunham
Fine Art artist and historian, Diane Britton Dunham, has receive global recognition for her Gullah/Creole inspired art. Her paintings represent life in South Carolina's Lowcountry and Louisiana bayous.
A...
Amelia’s Song: From Sierra Leone to South Carolina
Amelia's song is one of the most fascinating stories in the African-American drama of the Maafa/Atlantic slavery. A Mende woman, captured, transported and enslaved in Southern America, had carried within her a ...
Ona Judge: The First Lady’s personal maid who freed herself from bondage and was ‘Never Caught’
Ona Judge, known as Oney Judge Staines after marriage, was a bondwoman who worked on George Washington's Mount Vernon labour camp/plantation, in Virginia. Beginning in 1789, she worked as a lady's maid to First...
Ten Iconic Black Women of the Maafa (Atlantic Slavery)
"Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is active as your own, whose range of feelings is as vast as your own; who prefers the way the light falls i...
A Black Wedding Song
This love is a rich cry over
the deviltries and the death.
A weapon-song. Keep it strong.
Keep it strong.
Keep it logic and magic and lightning and muscle.
Strong hand in strong hand, stride to
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Claude Neal: The last ‘spectacle lynching’ in the United States.
Claude Neal was a 23-year-old African-American man who was arrested and lynched in Jackson County, Florida on October 26, 1934. He never got to trial. It was one of the most horrific acts of violence in the USA...
Richard Egües: La Flauta Mágica
Eduardo Richard Egües Martínez is one of the most famous flute musicians in Cuba, nicknamed "la flauta mágica" (the magic flute). Egües composed what are today classics of salsa, such as "Sabrosona", "Bomb...