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Reparations Movement Grows – Caribbean-Americas-Africa-Europe

Reparations Playlist: Global Pan African World Uniting for Reparations #ReparationsforAfricanAmericans By Dr. Ron Daniels Queen Mother Audley Moore was an indefatigable teacher, advocate and organizer for Reparations, the fundamental idea that Africans in America are due compensation to repair the physical, cultural, spiritual and mental damages inflicted by the holocaust of enslavement. She called herself

Brown v. Board of Education – The Court Decision that Rocked America 60 years Ago

      Brown v. Board of Education On May 17, 1954, the US Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education, a  history altering decision, that, “in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place" [ic_google_news keyword="Brown v. Board of Education"] Brown v. Board of Education of

The Long Road to Brown, 1865-1954

The Long Road to Brown, 1865-1954 Long before the 1954 brown v Board of Education, African Americans across the South fought against the Apartheid system of Jim Crow and for quality public education. Within the separate and unequal system African Americans built their own quality education system. The problem was not necessarily the separate system, but

Elombe Brath – African Internationalist – Pan Africanist – Garveyite

African American activists know May 19th as the birthday of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, or Malcolm X. As fate would have it, renowned African internationalist and Pan Africanist scholar, activist, and leader, Elombe Brath, joined the spiritual world of the ancestors on May 19th 2014. I cannot think of a more gifted Pan Africanist

The Past Isn’t Past: The Economic Case for Reparations

“The past is in the past; it’s time to move on.” That’s a common response to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ eloquent essay in The Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations,” and his recent discussion with Bill Moyers. But that sentiment betrays a fundamental…

The Greatest Michael Jackson Music Videos

   Michael Jackson – King of Pop and Music Videos Michael Jackson was not only a music legend, he transformed the music industry with his style of elaborately produced music videos. While music videos are everywhere now, it was Michael Jackson who pioneered what many artists and music fans now take for granted. Michael Jackson's

Take the African American Leadership Quiz

Amazon.com Widgets    Queen Mother Moore Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X   Marcus Garvey  Click on the link below to take The African American Leadership Quiz https://www.socialleadchief.com/slc/html/mtemplate.php?formid=1955&temp=1&type=quiz Test your knowledge of African American leadership. Take the African American Leadership Quiz, part 1 Like our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/blackpolitics2014 All of the answers to the

Major Milestones in the African American Freedom Struggle

The African American Struggle for Freedom An Historical Overview The long freedom struggle of the African American was first and foremost against the institution of slavery. After the Civil War, many African Americans were elected to local, state, and federal office as African Americans struggled to build democracy in the American South. That period was known

Obama Survived Republicans, Billionaires, Racists

APPIP ERROR: amazonproducts[ TooManyRequests|The request was denied due to request throttling. Please verify the number of requests made per second to the Amazon Product Advertising API. ] Reactionary Republicans, Billionaire Financiers, and Hard Core Racists threw everything at Barak Obama. Not only did he remain standing, but he flexed his muscle as chief executive officer

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) Martin Luther King Day, a holiday first observed in 1986 to honor the man who promoted peaceful protest to secure civil rights in the late 1950s and early ’60’s, is right around the corner. And although King is one of U.S. history’s most widely chronicled individuals,

Things you may not know about Mike Tyson

      WWE Mike Tyson’s fame is for the boxing ring and not wrestling, but he did spend time as an enforcer or referee for the WWE. He also participated in a tag-team match with Chris Jericho against D-Generation X. His participation in WWE brought the sport a great deal of publicity that may

Malcolm X – May 19th 1925 to February 21, 1965

 Who Was Malcom X Why Was He Assassinated – A Black Politics Exclusive February 21st marks the fiftieth (50th) anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X. To focus on this occasion, www.blackpolitics.org  will feature an exclusivefirst-hand account of Malcolm X, his significance, and the events leading up to his assassination from a man whom J Edgar Hoover

President Obama Speech – State of the Union

     2015 President Obama Speech – State of the Union    References: Speeches and Remarks | The White House Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery State of the Union … Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron of the United … Obama Speech News, Photos and Videos – ABC News

Remembering DJ E-Z Rock – "It takes Two"

On April 27, 2014, the legendary DJ E-Z Rock died:     “According to a Facebook post from longtime partner MC Rob Base, DJ E-Z Rock died on Sunday April 27, 2014. While no official cause of death was revealed at that time, On April 27, 2014 Biz Markie announced on Twitter that DJ E-Z Rock had died

Martin Delany – Founder of Black Nationalism in US

Frederick Douglass is famously quoted as saying, "I thank God for making me a man, but Delany thanks Him for making him a black man."

Honoring Yuri Kochiyama Human Rights Activist – Freedom Fighter

Yuri Kochiyama – Human Rights Activist – Freedom Fighter If you ever had the honor and privilege of  meeting Yuri Kochiyama, you would know her to be the most gentle and humble of all human spirits. I knew her, and her husband, Bill, and visited with them in their Harlem apartment. Even though Yuri was

The Edmund Pettus Bridge – Selma Alabama

The Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, AL.

Historic Pan African Reparations Summit Planned for New York

  Institute of the Black World to host April 2015 Reparations Summit African, Caribbean, South, Central American and African American Reparations Leaders to attend New York, Jan. 3, 2015…The New York-based Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) today announced that the organization will host the CARICOM Reparations Commission’s next meeting April 9-12 in New York.

Edward Brooke – First African American Elected US Senator

Edward Brooke, first black popularly elected to U.S. Senate … http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/03/us-usa-people-brooke-idUSKBN0KC0KE20150103 … Edward Brooke, the Massachusetts Republican who was the first African-American to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate … Brooke, first black …    Edward Brooke Dead at 95 References: Hillary Clinton Wellesley commencement speech: Robert Pinsky on … 2 Jul 2013 …

African American Artists: from history to art

black artists during the civil rights and liberation movements.

COINTELPRO – How the FBI Sabotaged Black America, A Documentary by Gil Noble

The intentional destruction of Black America by the FBI using infiltration, counter-intelligence programs and drugs. From Marcus Garvey to Paul Robeson to Ma...

Congressman John Conyers Jr First African American Dean of Congress

Spotlight on Congressman John Conyers Jr  First African American Dean of Congress In January 2015, Congressman John Conyers Jr, officially became the first African American Dean of Congress. The retirement of U.S. Rep. John Dingell means  that John Conyers Jr. became the Dean of the U.S. House of Representatives after fending off a  primary challenge earlier

Revitalizing the African American Reparations Movement

International Human Rights and Humanitarian Treaties establishing basis for Reparations: The right to effective remedy and duty to provide reparation International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Article 2 1. Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to respect and to ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction the

Racial Inequality in America

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ cover story at The Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations,” published last night — and the subject of this week’s Moyers & Company interview — shows how dramatically the legacy of slavery and centuries of legalized and institutionalized…

Who Are The Moors

APPIP ERROR: amazonproducts[ TooManyRequests|The request was denied due to request throttling. Please verify the number of requests made per second to the Amazon Product Advertising API. ] Who Are The Moors: Explore the Truth about when Black Men Ruled the World Many historians have said the Moors were the group that brought the Western world

One Out of Every 25 Death Row Inmates Innocent

Study – Many Death Row Inmates Innocent Study shows that 4% of death row inmates are innocent.  A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences uses statistical techniques to estimate that one in every 25 death row inmates in America would be exonerated, given enough time and attention. The study

UNTOLD BLACK HISTORY: The Black Chinese: DNA test… Case Closed

Ancient Black Chinese From East Africa ” (by PROFESSOR JIN LI – Fudan University Shanghai) An international study has found that the Chinese people originated not from Peking Man in northern China, but from early humans in East Africa who moved through South Asia… UNTOLD BLACK HISTORY: The Black Chinese: DNA test… Case… UNTOLD BLACK

A Racially Biased Prosecutor – A Secret Grand Jury in Ferguson, Missouri – No Justice, No Peace!

A Racially Biased Prosecutor – A Secret Grand Jury in Ferguson, Missouri – No Justice, No Peace! – http://www.blackpolitics.org A Racially Biased Prosecutor The first observation to be made about the behavior of the prosecutor in the Ferguson, Missouri, case is that he never treated the officer, Darren Wilson, as an adversary. For all of

Black Athletes Stand with Black Community in Protest

BBC History – Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali was the first man to win the undisputed world heavyweight boxing title three times. … play Muhammad Ali refuses to fight in the Vietnam War … Derrick Rose, Lebron James, members of St Louis Rams Stand with Black Community in Protest Echoing the example set by Muhammad Ali, some 50

In Historic Move, Obama Normalized Relations with Cuba

Obama Normalizes Relations with Cuba As far back as 2009, members of the Congressional Black Caucus had recommended that President Obama normalize relations between Cuba and the US and push for a lifting of the decades-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba. The CBC sent delegations to Havana to dialogue with Havana in pursuit of normalizing relations between