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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
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The Lost-Found Aboriginal Tribe of Shabazz, Bilalian Community (American Descendants of Slaves in America ADOS) is in crucial need of work on the highest level. The work for Moral Reform, Spiritual Upliftment, Economic Development, Environmental Improvement, Educational Excellence, and all around Human Achievement. However, the humble the efforts by many to construct a working system that would resurrect the life of our people has proven to be inconclusive in rendering an effective solution for the complex problems that attack the very fiber of human evolution and procreation. It is now necessary to make bold, new, and daring advances in the arena of Human Struggle to over come the negative forces, influences, and stigma of a vicious degenerative cycle of self-destruction and moral decay. Our streets, parks, schools, businesses, and homes are not secure from the assault of crime and violence. If we as human beings are to survive we must understand that, there is only one solution and the one problem, Unity. Our community has been and is divided into many diverse factions each having it's own ideology, philosophy, methodology, and agenda for confronting the various symptoms of the problem. Yet they all agree that there is a greater need for unity. Self Identification and Race Group Consciousness
10 Most Dangerous Housing Projects In Chicago (Chiraq)
Top Ten Most Violent Neighborhoods in Chicago #3 2017
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Chicago west side Riot April 5, 1968
The 1968 Democratic National Convention sparked a riot in Chicago
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Saviour's Day 1973, A Saviour Is Born - T.H. Elijah Muhammad
Interview with the Hon. Elijah Muhammad
Elijah Muhammad: Saviour's Day 1974 1/4
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Elijah Muhammad: The True History of Jesus
On July the Fourth the day of America's Independence celebration, He announced the beginning of His mission which was to restore and to resurrect His lost and found people, who were identified as the original members of the Tribe of Shabazz from the Lost Nation of Asia. The lost people of the original nation of African descent, were captured, exploited, and dehumanized to serve as servitude slaves of America for over three centuries. His mission was to teach the downtrodden and defenseless Black people a thorough Knowledge of God and of themselves, and to put them on the road to Self-Independence with a superior culture and higher civilization than they had previously experienced.
Thurgood Marshall was America's leading radical. He led a civil rights revolution in the 20th century that forever changed the landscape of American society. But he is the least well known of the three leading black figures of this century. Martin Luther King Jr., with his preachings of love and non-violent resistance, and Malcolm X, the fiery street preacher who advocated a bloody overthrow of the system, are both more closely associate in the popular mind and myth with the civil rights struggle.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr became prominent in political activism, fighting for employment opportunities and fair housing. He became the Chairman of the Coordinating Committee for Employment, mounting pressure on local businesses to hire Blacks on all levels of employment. He led very noteworthy protests. He led a “Shop Only Where You Can Work” boycott of all of store along 125th, shutting most of them down, thereby forcing them to hire Black workers. During the World’s Fair of 1939, his protesters picketed in front of the Fair’s headquarters at the Empire State Building which resulted in Black hiring to increase by 250%. Two years later he led the bus boycott of the New York Transit authority leading to 200 additional jobs for Black constituents. His activism on the part of the community led him to run for the New York City Council and he was elected in 1941, the first Black to serve on the Council. (Read more...)
African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem
Ben Ammi grew up in Chicago. A co-worker introduced him to the idea that African Americans are descendants of the Biblical Israelites. In his early twenties Carter was given the name Ben Ammi Ben-Israel by Rabbi Reuben of the Congregation of Ethopian Hebrews.[1] In 1963 Ben Ammi founded the A-Beta Hebrew Israel Cultural Center in Chicago in an attempt to organize the varied Black Hebrew Israelite groups in the city. In 1966, Ben Ammi claims to have received a vision from the angel Gabriel. In the vision, he claimed he was instructed to: "Lead the children of Israel among African Americans to the promised land, and establish the long-awaited Kingdom of God." His followers consider him to be the messiah. In 1967, Ben Ammi led 350 of his followers to Liberia.After two and a half years, many had lost faith and returned home. At this point he decided to send five families to Israel. Ben Ammi and more of his followers arrived in the ensuing months, settling in Dimona. The group received some resistance from Israeli authorities, who questioned their right to settle in Israel under the Law of Return. In the 1990s the group was granted temporary resident status and, in 2003, permanent residency.
Nation of Islam
Minister Louis Farrakhan handles the Donahue audience!
''Minister Farrakhan's First Appearance On Donahue 1985.''
Minister Louis Farrakhan Exposes 9/11 and Questions Official Story
The Nation of Islam under the leadership of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is the catalyst for the growth and development of Islam in America. Founded in 1930 by Master Fard Muhammad and led to prominence from 1934 to 1975 by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam continues to positively impact the quality of life in America.
Muhammad lied about W Fard Muhammad
W.D.Muhammad Tells how His own father Elijah feared Malcolm
Historic interview w/ Imam Warith Deen Mohammed @ Duke University (1992)
Imam's Meeting - Imam W. Deen Mohammed
Civic Center - Imam W. Deen Mohammed
(born Wallace D. Muhammad on October 30, 1933) is an influential AmericanMuslim leader. He is now known as Warith Deen Muhammad or Imam W.D. Mohammed. He is the son of Clara and Elijah Muhammad. After his father's death, Warith Deen Muhammad was accepted by followers of the Nation of Islam as their leader. He brought about many reforms, which brought the followers of the Nation of Islam closer to mainstream Islam. He renamed his organization a number of times. He is now the leader of a new project called The Mosque Cares, and most of his followers make up a portion of the worldwide Muslim community and have accepted Islam proper.
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The Greatest of all Time, the Greatest speaks
He's still the most recognizable man on earth. And over forty years after he burst onto the scene as a gold-medal winner at the 1960 Rome Olympics, Muhammad Ali remains a magical figure, known and loved throughout the world. His success as a boxer is widely respected, but Ali's greatest triumph lies in his legacy as a champion, leader, humanitarian, and artist. His work both inside and outside the ring truly makes Muhammad Ali "The Greatest of All Time."
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I Have A Dream Speech - August 28, 1963
April 3, 1968 -- "I've been to the mountaintop."
"How Long, Not Long" Speech
Long Lost Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech (Complete - Best Audio)
President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. (Read more...)
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"Who Taught You To Hate Yourself?"
If Somone Puts a Dog on You, Kill That Dog
It is not in the memory of man that this beleaguered, unfortunate, but nonetheless proud community has found a braver, more gallant young champion than this Afro-American who lies before us - unconquered still. I say the word again, as he would want me to : Afro-American - Afro-American Malcolm, who was a master, was most meticulous in his use of words. Nobody knew better than he the power words have over minds of men. Malcolm had stopped being a 'Negro' years ago. It had become too small, too puny, too weak a word for him. Malcolm was bigger than that. Malcolm had become an Afro-American and he wanted - so desperately - that we, that all his people, would become Afro-Americans too.
The Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Founder and President of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past forty years he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice.
The Moorish Science Temple of America
In the year 1886, there was a Divine Prophet born in the state of North Carolina. His name was Noble Drew Ali. If is sounds strange to speak of a prophet born in North Carolina, that maybe how it sounded in the days of Jesus, when some thought it strange that a prophet or anything good came out of Nazareth As prophets of olden days came to people around the world to save nations from the wrath of Allah, a Prophet of Islam was sent also to the Moors of America, who were called Negroes. The duty of a prophet is to save nations from the wrath of Allah. As Noah and Lot were warners to the people of those days, Prophet Noble Drew Ali came to warn and redeem the Moors of America from their sinful ways.
Prince Asiel Ben-Israel is one of the few African American leaders who has seized the power to define and control our destiny and direct our people toward the path of positive change. For 30 years he has served as International Ambassador Extraordinaire of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem.
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik is an Islamic televangelist and preacher. Naik is renowned as a non-Arabic scholar, public orator, and an authority on comparative religion. He is the founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation and the Peace TV Network, the largest religious satellite channel network in the world. (Read more...)
William Buckley interviews Huey Newton on Firing Line
Black Panther Party Documentary (1968)
The Black Panther Party was a progressive political organization that stood in the vanguard of the most powerful movement for social change in America since the Revolution of 1776 and the Civil War: that dynamic episode generally referred to as The Sixties. It is the sole black organization in the entire history of black struggle against slavery and oppression in the United States that was armed and promoted a revolutionary agenda, and it represents the last great thrust by the mass of black people for equality, justice and freedom.
Biography of Marcus Garvey
Surely the soul of liberal, philanthropic, liberty-loving, white America is not dead. It is true that the glamour of materialism, has, to a great degree, destroyed the innocence and purity of the national conscience, but, still, beyond our politics, beyond our soulless industrialism, there is a deep feeling of human sympathy that touches the soul of white America upon which the unfortunate and sorrowful can always depend for sympathy, help, and action. It is to that feeling that I appeal at this time for four hundred million Negroes of the world, and fifteen million of America in particular.
Kwame Toure (video)
Born Stokely Carmichael on June 29, 1941, in Trinidad, West Indies, he renamed himself in honor of Kwame Nkrumah, former president of Ghana, and Ahmed Sekou Toure, past president of Guinea.As a civil rights reformist, Kwame Toure went South to participate in the struggle to desegregate public transportation--bus trips known as freedom rides--where he learned first hand the terror of being locked up in Mississippi jails. In 1964, as a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field organizer, he participated in a dangerous voter registration campaign that increased the numbers of black voters in rural Lowndes County, Alabama, from 70 to 2,600. Using the black panther as its party symbol, the Lowndes County Freedom Organization became active in local political elections.
Nat Turner (October 2, 1800 to November 11, 1831) was a slave who became a preacher and made history as the leader of one of the bloodiest slave revolts in America on August 21, 1831. Following the insurrection Turner hid for six weeks, but he was eventually caught and later hanged. The incident ended the emancipation movement in that region and led to even harsher laws against slaves. While Turner became an icon of the 1960s black power movement, others have criticized him for using violence as a means of demanding change. (Read more...)
Known as the “Moses of her people,” Harriet Tubman was enslaved, escaped, and helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad. Tubman also served as a scout, spy, guerrilla soldier, and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War. She is considered the first African American woman to serve in the military. (Read more...)
Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree, c. 1797 to November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist best-known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?", delivered extemporaneously in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention. Truth was born into slavery but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. She devoted her life to the abolitionist cause and helped to recruit black troops for the Union Army. Although Truth began her career as an abolitionist, the reform causes she sponsored were broad and varied, including prison reform, property rights and universal suffrage. (Read more...)
One of the world’s most revered statesmen, Nelson Mandela led the struggle to replace South Africa’s apartheid regime with a non-racial democracy. His anti-apartheid activities led to his sentencing in 1962 to five years in prison, and in 1964 he was jailed for life because of his involvement in underground armed resistance activities. He served 27 years in prison.
Nelson Mandela became the first democratically elected State President of South Africa on 10 May 1994. Since stepping down in 1999, he has become South Africa’s highest profile ambassador, and has campaigned tirelessly in the fight against HIV/AIDS. He was also active in peace negotiations in African countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi.
Mayor Harold Washington: April 30, 1986
Washington’s candidacy forged political unity among Chicago’s notoriously fractious black community and helped bring the city’s feuding Latino groups (including Mexicans and Puerto Ricans) together (Read more...)
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The 44th President of the United States is the product of an unlikely union between a white teenager from Kansas and a foreign student from Kenya who met in a Russian class at the University of Hawaii.
As President Obama has said, the change we seek will take longer than one term or one presidency. Real change—big change—takes many years and requires each generation to embrace the obligations and opportunities that come with the title of Citizen. (Read more...)
Jomo Kenyatta: Kenya's Patriarch
As president, Kenyatta, known affectionately to Kenyans as mzee (Swahili for “old man”), strove to unify the new nation of Kenya. He worked to establish harmonious race relations, safeguarding whites’ property rights and appealing to both whites and the African majority to forget past injustices. Kenyatta adopted the slogan “Harambee” (Swahili for “let’s all pull together”), asking whites and Africans to work together for the development of Kenya. He promoted capitalist economic policies, encouraged foreign investment in Kenya, and adopted a pro-Western foreign policy.
The facts of his life are well known. Haile Selassie's influence on the world is his most enduring legacy. Born Tafari Makonnen in 1891, Haile Selassie came to be identified inextricably with Ethiopia. Only rarely in the modern world does the story of a man become so closely linked to the story of a nation. It is said that great events beget great men, but they beget failures as well, and the boundary between the two is often defined by singular acts of courage. These the Ethiopian Emperor did not lack. (Read more...)
The United States of Africa, Kwame Nkrumah Speaks!
Independence Speech (Colour) - Accra, 6th March 1957
Kwame Nkrumah became the first prime and later president of Ghana. He was born on September 21, 1909, at Nkroful in what was then the British-ruled Gold Coast, the son of a goldsmith. Trained as a teacher, he went to the United States in 1935 for advanced studies and continued his schooling in England, where he helped organize the Pan-African Congress in 1945. He returned to Ghana in 1947 and became general secretary of the newly founded United Gold Coast Convention but split from it in 1949 to form the Convention People's party (CPP). (read more)
Dr. Maulana Karenga is professor of Africana Studies at California State University, Long Beach. An activist-scholar of national and international recognition, Dr. Karenga has played a significant role in Black intellectual and political culture since the 60’s, especially in such educational and social movements as Black Studies, Black Power, Black Arts, Independent Schools, Afrocentricity, ancient Egyptian studies, Ifa ethical studies, the Million Person Marches, and reparations. Also, he is the creator of the pan-African cultural holiday Kwanzaa
CEO of African Development Plan, a non profit in Illinois.
The GOAL of African Development Plan is to create and implement a 50 year comprehensive development plan for Africa and her Diaspora communities worldwide.
is a CALL TO ACTION to all African People worldwide to begin to study our collective history, assess our communities needs and unite and think collectively on solutions to Africa and her Diaspora’s numerous challenges in communities worldwide.
African Americans Being African
Conrad Worrill (born August 15, 1941) is an African American writer, educator, activist, and former talk show host for the WVON call-in program On Target. Organizations he has been involved with include the Million Man March, and the National Black United Front. Worrills activism has centered on the need for greater independence in African American life, and helping young people better understand the relationships between power and institutions. (Read more...)
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He was a founding member and priest of the Temple of African Community of Chicago and founding member and director of the Kemetic (Egyptian) Institute, which sponsors the annual Teaching About Africa program for teachers and school administrators.
Baba Hannibal Tirus Afrik, a.k.a. Harold E. Charles, M.Ed. was a retired Chicago, Illinois science teacher(biology) of 30 years in February 1972, he co-founded the Shule YA Watoto(school for children) as an independent community institution in Chicago which succeeded for 31 years through self-reliance. He engaged the: Council of Independent Black Institution(CIBI); Afrikan National Rites of Passage United Kollective(ANROPUK); National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America(N'COBRA); Republic of New Africa; and since 1995, the Malcolm X College annual Kwanzaa celebration. (Read more...)
Born as Donald Lee on February 23, 1942, Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti grew up in poverty in Detroit and Chicago before becoming a respected professor and educator who has founded several African-centered schools in Chicago. His Third World Press, which started in a Chicago apartment in 1967, is the country's oldest continuously operating black-owned independent publishing house. As a poet and author, he has published more than 31 books (Read more...)
Educator Booker Taliaferro Washington was one of the foremost African-American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, founding the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now known as Tuskegee University.
Born into slavery in Virginia in the mid-to-late 1850s, Booker T. Washington put himself through school and became a teacher after the Civil War. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama (now known as Tuskegee University), which grew immensely and focused on training African Americans in agricultural pursuits. A political adviser and writer, Washington clashed with intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois over the best avenues for racial uplift. (read more...)
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was one of the most important African-American activists during the first half of the 20th century. He co-founded the NAACP and supported Pan-Africanism.
Scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In 1895, he became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Du Bois wrote extensively and was the best known spokesperson for African-American rights during the first half of the 20th century. He co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909. Du Bois died in Ghana in 1963. (read more...)
Frederick Douglass, a former slave and eminent human rights leader in the abolition movement, was the first black citizen to hold a high U.S. government rank.
Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. He became one of the most famous intellectuals of his time, advising presidents and lecturing to thousands on a range of causes, including women’s rights and Irish home rule. Among Douglass’ writings are several autobiographies eloquently describing his experiences in slavery and his life after the Civil War. (read more...)
A beloved international figure, Paul Robeson regularly spoke out against racial injustice and was involved in world politics. He supported Pan-Africanism, sang for Loyalist soldiers during Spain's civil war, took part in anti-Nazi demonstrations and performed for Allied forces during WWII. He also visited the Soviet Union several times during the mid-1930s, taken by much of its culture and ideas.
John Harold Johnson (January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005) was an American businessman and publisher. He was the founder of the Johnson Publishing Company. In 1982, he became the first African-American to appear on the Forbes 400. (Read more...)
Prof. Small is considered a living legend in the fight for the liberation of the minds of his people and against Eurocentric distortion of world history. Much of Bro. Small's expertise is found in African traditional spirituality, Malcolm X, African-American history & culture. He has conducted tours of Africa for over 25 years.
Antonio Moore graduated from UCLA in 2002, and Loyola Law School in 2006. In recent years he worked as a producer on the Emmy nominated documentary entitled "Crack in the System presented by Al Jazeera". The film tells the story of the effects of Mass Incarceration, the Iran Contra & the resulting crack cocaine epidemic that swept across America. Mr. Moore is also an active member of the Urban League Young Professionals.
Angel Rich is looking to build a financial literacy ecosystem, as the co-founder and CEO of The Wealth Factory Inc. The Washington, D.C.-based firm designs financial literacy and workforce development education technology games.
Hiawatha (also known as Ayenwathaaa, Aiionwatha, or Haiëñ'wa'tha [ha.jẽʔ.waʔ.tha] in Onondaga) was a precolonial Indian leader and co-founder of the Iroquois or the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. He was a leader of the Onondaga people, the Mohawk people, or both. According to some accounts, he was born an Onondaga but adopted into the Mohawks. The Great Law of Peace; Government for the People
Brother P.O.L.I.G.H.T is a debater, linguist, inventor of his own language, celebrity mentor, UFO proponent, and real estate mogul. The moniker P.O.L.I.G.H.T stands for Pride, Optimism, Love, Integrity, Gallant, Honesty, and Trust. Brother Polight (birth name – Michael Noak) is an American motivational speaker and author who has founded the Nu-Covenant, that focuses on goodness and oneness for all of mankind. As an author, Noak has published more than 90 books. Polight is culturally known as Nysut Amun-Re Sen Atum-Re. He was a former gang member.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Wikipedia
Dane Calloway is an American educator, author, film editor, film writer, film producer, well-respected historian, and an unorthodox researcher with 10+ years of creditable experience specializing in ethnographic, field and historical researching in various categories such as American Indian history, World history, African-American history, American history, case studies and also investigative journalism.
Charleston White, 52, has become a well-known controversial online figure after sharing brutally honest stories of his past on YouTube and social media. He came under fire due to his comments regarding George Floyd and the late rapper DMX' s death.
Fredrick Allen Hampton, Sr. (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an American activist and Marxist–Leninist. He came to prominence in Chicago as chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and deputy chairman of the national BPP. In this capacity, he founded the antiracist, anticlass Rainbow Coalition, a prominent multicultural political organization that initially included the Black Panthers, Young Patriots (which organized poor whites), and the Young Lords (which organized Hispanics), and an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them end infighting and work for social change. Hampton considered fascism the greatest threat, saying, "Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” (Read more...)
Larry Hoover, also known as "King Larry," is the notorious former leader of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation, a Chicago street gang that spread nationwide. Hoover, inspired by the biography of Mayor Richard J. Daley, began discouraging violence among his followers. Instead, he made education mandatory for members of the Gangster Disciples and instructed his army to "go to school, learn trades and develop ... talents and skills, so that we will become stronger in society."
Jeff Fort is a co-founder and former leader of the Chicago, Illinois street gang known by various names over time as the Blackstone Rangers, the Blackstone Nation, and the El Rukns. In 1967, Fort formed a non-profit organization, the Grassroots Independent Voters of Illinois. The organization applied for a financial grant of $1 million from the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, the federal anti-poverty agency. They received the funding to create skills development programs for gang members. President Richard Nixon, seeking inroads into the African American community, praised their efforts and Fort was invited to his inaugural ball in January 1969. He declined the invitation. ANGEL OF FEAR (Documentary, Jeff Fort Black P Stone Nation)
David Barksdale, also known as King David, was an American gang leader from Chicago, Illinois. Barksdale was the founder of the Black Disciples. He and Larry Hoover decided to merge and create the Black Gangster Disciple Nation. Barksdale died on September 2, 1974, due to kidney failure at age 27.
Willie Lloyd was the leader of one of Chicago's oldest gangs, the Almighty Vice Lord Nation. He was imprisoned several times for gang-related crimes. After his release from jail in 2002, he tried to earn a legitimate living mediating gang member disputes. His effort to promote peace fell on deaf ears.
The Egyptian Cobras formed in the year 1954 on Chicago’s west side. The founder of the Egyptian Cobras was James Cogwell. Cogwell led the Egyptian King Cobras as they gained a foothold and reputation in Chicago.
George Washington Carver was an agricultural scientist and inventor who developed hundreds of products using peanuts (though not peanut butter, as is often claimed), sweet potatoes and soybeans. Born an African-American slave a year before the practice was outlawed, Carver left home at a young age to pursue education and would eventually earn a master’s degree in agricultural science from Iowa State University. He would go on to teach and conduct research at Tuskegee University for decades, and soon after his death his childhood home would be named a national monument — the first of its kind to honor an African American.
Doctor Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985)[1] was an African-American surgeon who developed a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome (now known as cyanotic heart disease) in the 1940s.He was the assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock in Blalock's experimental animal laboratory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and later at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He served as supervisor of the surgical laboratories at Johns Hopkins for 35 years. In 1976 Hopkins awarded him an honorary doctorate and named him an instructor of surgery for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Without any education past high school, Thomas rose above poverty and racism to become a cardiac surgery pioneer and a teacher of operative techniques to many of the country's most prominent surgeons. (Read more...)
Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806) was a free African-American almanac author, surveyor, naturalist, and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little formal education and was largely self-taught. He is known for being part of a group led by Major Andrew Ellicott that surveyed the original borders of the District of Columbia, the federal capital district of the United States.
Banneker's knowledge of astronomy helped him author a commercially successful series of almanacs. He corresponded with Thomas Jefferson on the topics of slavery and racial equality, Jefferson having earlier drafted the United States Declaration of Independence. Abolitionists and advocates of racial equality promoted and praised Banneker's works. (Read more...)
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel in space when she served as an astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. After graduating from medical school and briefly working as a general practitioner, Jemison served in the Peace Corps from 1985 until 1987. In 1987 her application to become an astronaut was accepted by NASA. In September 1992, she went into space as a mission specialist aboard STS-47. In 1993 she resigned from NASA and founded a company researching the application of technology to daily life. She has appeared on television several times, including in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She holds nine honorary doctorates in science, engineering, letters, and the humanities. She is the principal of the 100 Year Starship organization. (Read more...)
Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 – April 3, 1950) was an American historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. He was one of the first scholars to study African-American history. A founder of The Journal of Negro History in 1916, Woodson has been cited as the "father of black history". In February 1926 he launched the celebration of "Negro History Week", the precursor of Black History Month. Born in Virginia, the son of former slaves, Woodson had to put off schooling while he worked in the coal mines of West Virginia. He made it to Berea College, becoming a teacher and school administrator. He gained graduate degrees at the University of Chicago and was the second African American to obtain a PhD degree from Harvard University. Most of his academic career was spent at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where Woodson eventually served as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. (Read more...)
Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) was an American civil aviator. She was the first woman of African-American descent, and the first of Native American descent, to hold a pilot license. She achieved her international pilot license in 1921. Born to a family of sharecroppers in Texas, she went into the cotton fields at a young age but also studied in a small segregated school and went on to attend one term of college at Langston University. She developed an early interest in flying, but African Americans, Native Americans, and women had no flight training opportunities in the United States, so she saved up money to go to France to become a licensed pilot. She soon became a successful air show pilot in the United States, and hoped to start a school for African-American fliers. She died in a plane crash in 1926 while testing her new aircraft. Her pioneering role was an inspiration to early pilots and to the African-American and Native American communities.
Dr. Claud Anderson is president of PowerNomics Corporation of America, Inc., The Harvest Institute and WaterLand Fisheries, Inc. PowerNomics is a company that publishes his books and produces multimedia presentations in which he explains his concept, PowerNomics®. PowerNomics® is the package of principles and strategies he developed to explain the concept of race and to offer Black America a guide to become a more economically and politically competitive group in America.
Byron Allen Folks (born April 22, 1961) is an American businessman, former comedian, television producer, philanthropist, and the founder, owner, chairman, and chief executive officer of the U.S. television production company Entertainment Studios. Allen vs Cable
Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records. (Read more) Website www.madamcjwalker.com
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" – often referred to as the "Black National Anthem" – is a song written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) in 1900 and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954) in 1905.
James Dator (Goucher College Professor of History and Africana Studies) explains the origins, causes, and changing nature of racism and race ideology in the United States from 1619 to the present.
Reparations would shake up American capitalism – and that’s a good thing
Paying compensation to the American Descendants Of Slaves would not just right a historic wrong, it would transform the US economy for the better!
The Angela Project is a 3 Year Movement Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of Black Enslavement in America. Join us as we set a new trajectory for the next 400 Years. Theme for Year-One: Education - The Educational Crisis of Blacks in America & Public Policy. Featured Speakers are: Dr. Jared Ball, Tim Wise, Yvette Carnell, Dr. Robert Franklin & Antonio Moore.
This week, New York Times Magazine unveiled the 1619 Project a collection of writings which re-examines slavery in the United States & its impact on black people today 400 years after the first slave ship arrived in this country. Reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones leads the project. She sits down with Ebro in the Morning to break down the impressive and ambitious piece of work as well as the history of slavery of America and how we continue to see its effects today.
Jeffery Robinson takes an insightful look at our shared history and some "uncomfortable truths."
Jeffery Robinson is a deputy legal director and the director of the ACLU Trone Center for Justice and Equality, which houses the organization's work on criminal justice, racial justice, and reform issues. Since graduating from Harvard Law School in 1981, Jeff has three decades of experience working on these issues.
Seattle Attorney Jeff Robinson talks about the shared history that many of us are not taught in school.
Jeff was one of the original members of the John Adams Project and worked on the behalf of one of five men held atGuantanamo Bay charged with carrying out the 9/11 attacks. In recent years, he has traveled the country speaking hard truths in a groundbreaking talk on racism in America.
Seattle Attorney Jeff Robinson talks about building a better system.
Few people know more about the impact of racism and the legacy of slavery in America than Jeffery Robinson. A renowned lawyer who’s been fighting for justice for almost 40 years, he joined the ACLU in 2015 as deputy legal director, focusing on criminal and racial justice. He talked to us recently from his home in Seattle and mentioned when we began that he could see demonstrators gathering on the streets below for another night of protests against George Floyd’s murder and the systemic racism that brought it about.
The Hood, A place where some folk usually claim they are from. They usually aspire to fantasies of escaping from "the hood" but most fail. However some actually do manage to escape from this 'hood' through their talents in the Rap and hip-hop industry. The hood is also an area of heavy crime, and corrupt police force. Hoods are usually owned by organized crime organizations known as Street gangs. Which deal in the drug trade, prostitution, and theft. Recently, hoods are becoming not only something of the African American race, but something of all races and cultures including Hispanics, whites, etc, this hood-mentality has been spread through the increasing popularity of Rap and Hip-hop music, "gangster culture", and the under funding of the police force allowed by the government.
The ghetto (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɡetto]), often the ghetto, is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure. Ghettos are often known for being more impoverished than other areas of the city.
The Trap, a place where illegal drug transactions take place. Generally considered to be the ghetto or a specific place in the ghetto like a certain corner or parking lot of a store. Most often linked but not limited to the sale of crack/cocaine.
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