Archive for the ‘Africa’ Category
Update: The Cambridge police just dropped the charges! Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., best known for his work in African-American ancestral research, was arrested last week by Cambridge, Mass., police on his own front porch. Gates had just returned from China and found his front door jammed. He went to the backdoor of the […]
Filed under: Africa, African-American History, Crime & Time, Current Events, Discrimination, Education, Police Brutality, Race Not Won (Racism in America), Social Studies | 9 Comments
Tags: henry louis gates jr., racial profiling, racism in america
Movie Alert: Soul Power
James Brown, Bill Withers, B.B. King, Miriam Makeba, the Spinners, Celia Cruz, the Crusaders, and more are featured in the new documentary Soul Power, capturing Zaire ’74, a three-day soul music festival that was originally scheduled to take place the same week as Muhammad Ali’s Rumble in the Jungle championship fight against George Foreman in Kinshasa, […]
Filed under: Africa, Around the World, Art/Culture | Closed
Tags: b.b. king, bill withers, celia cruz, democratic republic of congo, george foreman, james brown, miriam makeba, muhammad ali, soul power movie, the crusaders, the spinners, when we were kings, zaire '74
Senate apologizes for slavery
The U.S. Senate passed a non-binding resolution on June 18 apologizing for American slavery (1619 – 1865) and “Jim Crow” laws following slavery through the 1960s that continued to deprive Black people of basic human rights. The resolution concludes: Whereas it is important for the people of the United States, who legally recognized slavery through the Constitution and the […]
Filed under: Africa, African-American History, Current Events, Discrimination, Political Bicker, Race Not Won (Racism in America) | 1 Comment
Tags: African American, African-American History, american slavery, black codes, congressional record, Jim Crow
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in Tanzania, convicted former interior minister Callixte Kalimanzira, 56, of two counts of genocide and direct and public incitement to commit genocide during the 1994 slaughter of 800,000 people–mainly Tutsis–in Rwanda. The African holocaust shocked the world. Kalimanzira, who instructed thousands of Tutsi civilians to take refuge at Kabuye Hill in Ndora commune, promising food […]
Filed under: Africa, Around the World, Crime & Time | Closed
Tags: african holocaust, callixte kalimanzira, genocide in rwanda, international criminal tribunal in rwanda, kabuye hill
“I bring what I love”
The New York Times calls him the “Senegalese superstar,” but most African-Americans have never heard of him. A new movie, “Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love,” about his life and music, just opened in Manhattan last Friday and could change things. Combining Senegalese lyrical expressions with Egyptian arrangements, his 2004 album, Egypt, earned Youssou N’Dour, 49, […]
Filed under: Activism, Africa, Around the World, Art/Culture | Closed
Tags: i bring what i love movie, youssou n'dour
AIDS health activist Thembi Ngubane was just 19 when she began documenting her battle with AIDS for a radio diary that aired on NPR, here in the U.S., in April 2006, and later aired in the UK, Canada, and Australia, touching nearly 50 million people. A mother of a four-year-old daughter, she died last […]
Filed under: Activism, Africa, Around the World, Current Events, Healthy Living, RIP | Closed
Tags: Africa, HIV/AIDS, South Africa, thembi ngubane
The BBC is reporting that Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay $15.5 million as an out-of-court settlement in a case brought by the families of nine Nigerian executed anti-oil activists, accusing the company of human rights abuses, including murder and torture. The activists, who were protesting the pollution caused by the oil industry and also […]
Filed under: Activism, Africa, Around the World, Business as Unusual, Crime & Time, Current Events, Renewable Energy | Closed
Tags: Africa, anti-oil activism, federal laws, ken saro-wiwa, niger delta, nigeria, oil industry, royal dutch shell
