Gen. Daniel ("Chappie") James Jr. promoted to rank of four-star general and named commander-in-chief of the North American Air Defense Command.
On October 1, 1945, noted R&B singer and songwriter, Donny Hathaway was born in Chicago, Illinois. Before his death, he often teamed up with songstress,...
Imani Sankofa covers issues ranging from economics to education. We are dedicated to resolving issues that plague the African community.
We seek to network with others who also seek to effect POSITIVE change within the African community. If you're serious about taking ACTION and finding SOLUTIONS within the African community, this site is perfect for you.
Our vision for the African Diaspora is a diaspora that is self-sufficient on all levels including: political, economical, educational, and physical.
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As you already know, Haiti was hard hit by a catastrophic earthquake. The earthquake caused major damage to Port-au-Prince. Most major landmarks were significantly damaged or destroyed, including the Presidential Palace (the President survived), the National Assembly building, the Port-au-Prince Cathedral, and the main jail. To compound the tragedy, most hospitals in the area were destroyed. The United Nations reported that the headquarters of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), located in the capital, had collapsed and that the Mission's Chief, Hédi Annabi, was missing.
The people of Haiti are suffering with many still trapped under rubble, dead bodies filling the streets, no food or water. Extreme poverty existed in Haiti before the earthquake. You can only imagine the horrific conditions existing in Haiti today. Please do whatever you can to help the Haitian people: 1. donate money, bottled water, blankets, clothes or your time. The Haitian people need you!
Duron “Brother Manifest” Chavis, 29
Eligibility Worker, Richmond Department of Social Services Founder, Happily Natural Day
Photo by Scott Elmquist
“When people think activist, they think you’re out here ready to picket somebody,” says Duron Chavis, also known as Brother Manifest, who’s been known to hold a sign now and then in support of the cause.
But it’s not in a picket line that you’re most likely to find Chavis. He’s the face of a different kind of social consciousness in the black community, one devoted to positive messages, changed minds and what it means to be black in America.
“They say knowledge is power,” Chavis says, “but I say it’s not powerful unless you do something with it.”
In 2004, the death rate for African Americans was higher than Whites for heart diseases, stroke, cancer, asthma, influenza and pneumonia, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and homicide.
Black Health Village is committed to eliminating health disparities among African Americans. Black Health Village provides holistic health solutions that if followed will improve the number of years and quality of life for African Americans. Learn how to improve your health by visiting blackhealthvillage.info.
Miami Grassroots Group Moves Struggling Families into Vacant Homes
The Miami grassroots group Take Back the Land has launched a campaign to help some of the victims of the foreclosure crisis. The group has been helping homeless families illegally move into vacant homes that have been foreclosed.
The recent economic volatility, marked by a housing boom spurred by massive gentrification and the current cycle of capital divestment resulting in mass foreclosures, has been a major challenge for a social justice movement caught off guard and flat footed. After high rates of housing construction during the boom years, the subsequent bust has witnessed hundreds of thousands of people evicted from their homes. The net result is a simultaneous increase in both the number of homes and the number of families without homes.
African Voices takes a look at slavery from those who experienced it firsthand. You will encounter famous figures such as Frederick Douglas and Nat Turner as well as many lesser known individuals who will help address the question: What was it like to be a slave?
True story: A woman listed in the census simply as Celia was just fourteen years old in 1850, when a sixty-year old Missouri farmer named Robert Newsome purchased her. A widower with two grown daughters, Newsome raped Celia before he had even brought her to his farm. For five years he kept her as his sexual slave, forcing her to bear two illegitimate children. In 1855, pregnant a third time and ill, she struck back by hitting her abuser on the head with a club and burning his body in her fireplace.
During her murder trial, Celia's attorney argued that a woman had a right to use deadly force to prevent rape. But the court ruled that in Missouri, as in other slave states, it was not a crime to rape a slave woman. Celia was found guilty and hanged.
How many slaves were transported from Africa? Enslaved Africans arrived in the New World as early as 1502. And over the next three centuries, European slave traders shipped to the West approximately 11.7 million Africans. (Islamic traders probably exported an equal number into North Africa, Arabia, Yemen, Iraq, Iran and India.) Nearly 2 million slaves died during the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic to the Americas, a trip that usually took more than seven weeks.
How were slaves captured? African slaves were often captured in tribal wars or in surprise raids on villages. Adults were bound and gagged and infants were sometimes thrown into sacks. One of the earliest first-hand accounts of the African slave trade comes from a seaman named Gomes Eannes de Azurara, who witnessed a Portuguese raid on an African village. He said that some captives "drowned themselves in the water; others thought to escape by hiding under their huts; others shoved their children among the sea-weed."
We seek to network with others who also seek to effect POSITIVE change within the African community. If you're serious about taking ACTION and finding SOLUTIONS within the African community, this site is perfect for you.
Miami Grassroots Group Moves Struggling Families into Vacant Homes
African Voices takes a look at slavery from those who experienced it firsthand. You will encounter famous figures such as Frederick Douglas and Nat Turner as well as many lesser known individuals who will help address the question: What was it like to be a slave?