April 2012
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SOUL ON ICE: A Black Fan Speaks on Hockey Racism... →
The pervasive perception of hockey as a “White man’s sport” is challenged by authors George and Darril Fosty in their book Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925. In Black Ice, the Fostys’ research not only reveals the contributions of Black players but also asserts that modern hockey’s roots came from the sons and grandsons of...
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What The Secret Service Scandal Teaches Us About... →
Much like the how the U.S.’s appetite for narcotics fuels the War on Drugs another illicit multi-billion dollar market booms — sex.
Sex tourism in Latin American and the Caribbean has grown alongside the formal tourist industry at an alarming rate. Each year millions of men AND women from the western world travel south looking to get their groove on and their...
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“And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations,...”
– Sonia Sanchez (via vertigoverb)
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First criminal charges filed in 2010 BP Gulf oil... →
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OLAF HAJEK ILLUSTRATIONS FOR FILM “PRAY THE DEVIL... →
37thstate:
Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the extraordinary story of a small band of Liberian women who came together in the midst of a bloody civil war, took on the violent warlords and corrupt Charles Taylor regime, and won a long-awaited peace for their shattered country in 2003. It…
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FREE SPEECH AIN'T FREE: Ozzie Guillen and... →
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“Our Ancestors will not accept mediocrity as their standards.”
– Ivan Van Sertima
(via fyeahblackhistory)
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Rwanda Remembers, Never Again →
Eighteen years ago the world focused its attention on Bomb Alley in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina while the blood spilled on Machete Avenue in Kigali, Rwanda, flowed hidden from the international media spotlight.
On April 7, 1994, ethnic tension between the majority Hutu and minority Tutsi reached its tipping point as Hutu Power engulfed Rwanda resulting the swiftest and...
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'Oklahoma prosecutors have filed murder and hate... →
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Various Urban African Cities
Cotonou, Benin
Abuja, Nigeria
Algiers, Algeria
Ouagadougou, Bourkina Faso
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Dakar, Senegal
Kampala,Uganda
Mombasa, Kenya
Lome, Togo
Luanda, Angola
Rabat, Morocco
Monrovia, Liberia
Luanda, Angola
Lome, Togo
Kinshasa, Congo
Maputu, Mozambique
Marrakesh, Morocco
Alexandria, Egypt
Kinshasa, Congo
Nairobi, Kenya
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29 Black People Have Been Killed by... →
liquornspice:
fromonesurvivortoanother:
Twenty-eight Black People (27 Men and 1 Female) Killed by Police Officials, Security Guards, and Self-Appointed “Keepers of the Peace” between January 1, 2012 and March 31, 2012
- 28 cases of state sanctioned or justified murder of Black people in the first 3 months of 2012 alone have been found (due to under reporting and discriminatory methods of...
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BLACK GOLD: What Will Oil Do For (or To) Kenya? →
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African Americans and Afro-Latinos a common... →
fashionistazapatista:
Herein lies the problem with US imperialism.
By hoarding the name “America” the United States divides people of African-descent leading us to believe that we are difference when we aren’t.
Every person of African-descent in the Americas whether they be from the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, or Latin America IS African-American.
Our histories have never be...
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"Marlins Suspend Manager for 5 Games Over... →
inmoment:
Free Speech?
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