Everybody HasTo Be Involved In Project Africa.

Few people know the story of Claudette Colvin (Born September 5, 1939, in Montgomery, Alabama). When she was 15, Colvin was arrested in March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat to a white person. She was arrested and became one of four plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, which ruled that Montgomery's segregated bus system was unconstitutional. Colvin was the first to really challenge the law.

In early 1955, Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old black girl...

Michelle Janine Howard (born April 30, 1960) is the first female African American 2 star Rear Admiral upper class in the United States Navy. Admiral Howard commanded the ship that saved the widely reported kidnapped captain of the seized cargo ship Maersk Alabama from Somali Pirates. Howard received the assignment of leading the U.S. Navy’s counter-piracy task force just three days before attack. She assumed command of Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 2 and Combined Task Force (CTF)...

Mary Elizabeth Bowser (born 1839, date of death unknown) was an American freed slave who worked in connection with Elizabeth Van Lew as a Union spy during the Civil War.

Bowser was born a slave on a plantation near Richmond, Virginia to owner John Van L...

if you cant die for it, put the word ''freedom'' out of your vocabulary

-Malcom X

Happy birthday Malcom, we love you ♥

We need to pause to think about him, because he left, for us, important social and political lessons.

Though Malcolm's life was short, it was marked by dramatic change. He was born into poverty, madness and racial violence. His youthful arrogance, crime and indulg...

BLACK WOMAN'S SPINE

I see your spine it's as solid as steel

I see your eyes it always keeps it real

The black woman has kept the family together

and held us together through the Impossible ,She has seen her man The black man stripped of his diginity and of his manhood during the day's of slavery,she has watched the black man suffer from pain and misery of bieng br...

The Black Liberation Struggle: What Really Happened Off the ’60s —And What Did Not

The masses answered this question, unmistakably. People rebelled in hundreds of American cities,25 and the revolutionary stance of leaders like Malcolm X and forces like the Black Pant...

Wife of the Hon Marcus Garvey..

Amy Euphemia Jacques-Garvey Born in Kingston, Jamaica Dec 31, 1895 - July 25, 1973 the second wife of Marcus Garvey, did not derive her legitimacy from the status of her husband. She was a leading Pan-Africanist and Black Nationalist in her own right. Amy Garvey was one of the key political leaders, archivist, and interpreters of the Garvey movement. She participated direc...

James Pierson Beckwourth (April 6, 1798 Frederick County, Virginia – October 29, 1866, Denver) was an American mountain man, fur trader, and explorer. A mulatto born into slavery in Virginia, he later moved to the American West. As a fur trapper, he lived with the Crow for years. He is credited with the discovery of Beckwourth Pass through the Sierra Nevada (U.S.) Mountains between present day Reno, Nevada and Portola, California during the California Gold Rush years, and improved the B...

ICELAND. No news from Iceland?… why? How come we hear everything that happens in Egypt/Libya but no news about what’s happening in Iceland:

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In Iceland, the people has made the government resign, the primary banks have been nationalized, it was decided to not pay the debt that these created with Great Britain and Holland due to their bad financial politics and a public assembly has been created to rewri...

François Hollande win presidential election,with 52% SARKOZY48% 

Nicola Sarkozy becoming the 11th European leader to be swept from power during the economic crisis Hollande has promised to renegotiate Europe's fiscal pact on austerity and shift the focus to growth measures

Although she may have been one of the toughest women ever to work in a convent, 'Black Mary' had earned the respect and devotion of most of the residents of the pioneer community of Cascade, Montana, before she died in 1914. In fact, Mary Fields was widely beloved. She was admired and respected throughout the region for holding her own and living her own way in a world where the odds were stacked against her. In a time when African Americans and women of any race enjoyed little freedom anywhe...

Kwame Nkrumah's diarygoes home on the 40th anniversary of his death

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvaniaorders the release of President Nkrumah's diary to his daughter, the HonorableSamia Yaba Nkrumah, M.P.

The single most effective White propaganda assertion that continues to make it very difficult for us to reconstruct the African social systems of mutual trust broken down by U.S. Slavery is the statement, unqualified, that, "We sold each other into slavery." Most of us have accepted this statement as true at its face value. It implies that parents sold their children into slavery to Whites, husbands sold their wives, even brothers and sisters selling each other to the Whites. It continues to ...

Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was vocalist and actress who was a key figure in the development of African American culture between the two World Wars. She broke barrier after barrier, becoming the first black woman heard on the radio, the first black singer to perform on television, the first African American to perform in an integrated cast on Broadway, and the first black woman to perform in a lead dramatic role on Broadway. She opened all the theatrical doors h...

Mark Matthews (August 7, 1894 – September 6, 2005) was an American veteran of the Second World War and a Buffalo Soldier. Born in Alabama and growing up in Ohio, Matthews joined the 10th Cavalry Regiment when he was only 15 years old, after having been recruited at a Lexington, Kentucky racetrack and having documents forged so that he appeared to meet the minimum age of 17. While stationed in Arizona, he joined General John J. Pershing's Mexico expeditio...

Susie Baker King Taylor (1848-1912) was the first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves in Georgia

The key issue connected with the content or substance of African traditional religion revolves mainly around the kind of questions that should be given prominence in research. Should they be mainly issues that emanate from the nature of the subject and for those advance the literary reconstruction of the indigenous religion, or rather those that are aimed at answering academic concerns that are largely external to the subject...