Culture, Race & Economy

I never thought about who Edmund Winston Pettus was until the film Selma came out. According to Wikipedia Pettus was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, after the war he led the Alabama Ku Klux Klan and was a U.S. Senator. Maybe it is time to rename the Bridge...

I repeat Which story, written by a Black person, do you recall most that involved elections?

https://blackfilmarchive.com/

Africa Must Produce or Perish Philip Emeagwali Imagine that it is May 25, 2063, the 100th anniversary of Africa Day, a day for reflecting on Africa's successes and failures. The newspaper headline announces, “Last Remaining Oilfield in West Africa's American Territory Dries Up.” The article continues: “The last patch of rainforest will soon be empty land scarred by oil pipelines, pumping stations, and natural gas refineries. Wholesale pollution will be the environmental legacy for future generations. “Africa's offshore oil reserves will ebb away. Abandoned oil wells could well become tourist attractions, and oil-boom settlements will be transformed int…

De: info@kolakenya.org Enviada: Quinta-feira, 25 de Junho de 2015 11:26 Para: doninelli-pereira@bol.com.br Assunto: Copy of: Direct Free Speech novel needs translation Copy of: This is an enquiry e-mail via http://www.kolakenya.org/ from: Wellington Antonio Doninelli Pereira <doninelli-pereira@bol.com.br> I am a Brazilian writer of African ancestry I have a book I wish I could exchange for free amongst other African ancestry writers. It is written in Portuguese, free copyright, anybody can download and have it, I need a forum in which to post it and see if any American fellow writer can translate it into English. My free e-book: http://www.escritoresalagoanos.com…

Many African Americans living along the banks of North Florida’s Suwannee River still refuse to eat catfish caught from its murky waters, knowing that these bottom feeders had at some point dined on the decaying corpses of their lynched relatives. This book chronicles how bolita, from its birth in segregationist Suwannee County in the 1930s to its death in the 1950s, led to Blood on the Suwannee. Bolita’s first casualty was the surreptitious murder of a prominent white bolita queen in the 1930s that inadvertently led to the expansion of bolita and bootleg liquor in the county. The second casualty—the untimely drowning death of fifteen-y…

if you or someone you know live in philadelphia pennsylvania , and want to have a creative sexy night, tonight!! go north to amber for the following event #grandmasplace if you are in harlem, manhattan, nyc, nys check it out , great place to get toys, especially with themes for Black children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWBfoQaeebw The Talokanil and the Wakandans- One is a magical land of black people in Africa who didn't help the majority of other black people being annihilated by whites... the other is a magical land of indigenous people in America <continental> and didn't help the majority of other indigenous people being annihila…

@jrhow2/twitterThe republican attack on public sector union workers is also an attack on blacks. Black public sector union members are a key part of the black middle class. They are the teachers, the hospital workers, the garbage collectors, the social workers, the janitors, the secretaries. At a time when the economic ladder has been pulled out from under so many, we all have a stake in fighting for those still able to support the businesses, churches, and other institutions that sustain the life and vitality of black communities. I marched in my first picket line 50 years ago. None of can say we are too old, too tired, or too well-off to do what we have to do to keep ge…

Wowow, this is BIG news! Those in the mainstream media are really keeping this pretty quiet, but this is big, big, monumental (literally) news! http://www.huffingto..._n_1496120.html 05/07/2012 12:12 pm Updated: 05/08/2012 12:48 am Mt. Rushmore Site Should Be Returned To Indigenous Native American Tribes, U.N. Official Says South Dakota's Black Hills, home to the granite faces carved into Mt. Rushmore, should be restored as Native American tribal lands, a United Nations official recently said. James Anaya, a U.N. special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous people, completed a fact-finding mission on Friday that included meetings with a n…

It was very difficult to watch NBC's coverage of the Olympics. If I had to look at Michael Phelps mother's mug for another second I probably would have lost it. So much time was spent on human interest instead of actual competition it was nerve racking. The were so fixated on trying to catch Orsoco in tears they did not even cover other athletes competing. Scores were unannounced -- few routines shown. Why so much coverage of beach volleyball? There is an twitter hashtag #nbcfail where people are venting over NBC's coverage. I have not read many of the tweets, they are not very interesting to me. What is interesting is that athletes are getting booted ou…

ANOTHER GREAT BLACK VOICE GONE...MAYA ANGELOU ALWAYS GAVE THANKS TO HER BLACK ANCESTORS, UNLIKE A LOT OF SUCCESSFUL BLACK PEOPLE,WHO THINK THEY GOT WHERE THEY ARE ON THERE ON//SOME OF HER POEMS ARE REALITY AT THIS MOMENT...STILL I RISE ,I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS..LIKE THE CAGED BIRD LONGING FOR FREEDOM, IN CAGE CONFINED.BLACK PEOPLE ARE SELF CONFINED , DETAINED.GANGS,DRUGS, IRRESPONSIBLE PARENTS, BLACK LEADERS,PREACHERS..YES THE WHITE SUPREMACY HAS NOT CHANGED A LOT.....BLACK MEN TRY TO CONTAINED BLACK WOMEN..POEM STILL I RISE, WHITE SUPREMACY CONTAINING BLACK PEOPLE IN OR…

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/books/bell-hooks-min-jin-lee-aint-i-a-woman.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-drops-out-oval-office-address/ POTUS PJB officially bowed out of running for re-election. Highlighted his record of governance. Tepidly endorsed VP Harris as nominee. POTUS PJB says that democracy is on the ballot. He seems to believe the country will be less great if Dems don't win again. POTUS PJB vows to continue doing his job until it's time to leave office. Remains to be seen how much he'll support VP Harris as his successor.😎

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/18/politics/joe-biden-prostate-cancer Former POTUS Joe Biden has revealed that he has prostate cancer. An outpour of respect has come from both sides of the political aisle for his diagnosis and well wishes for his recovery. Let's see if this situation throws a wet blanket on the petty, partisan, political theater currently playing in Washington, DC. Hopefully, POTUS Biden's treatment will be successful. Cancer still sucks. 😎

I had not previously heard of Chris Hedges prior to Kam's report on one of his lectures. The man poses some interesting, sobering ideas. Explaining the inevitable negative consequence which will result from our illeracy, lack of critical thinking, focus on celebrity, and a host of other things we've complaining abou ton these boards. I just downed Hedges latest book to my Kindle. Link to Chris Hedges Profile on AALBC.com

The Pied Piper of Hamelin is the subject of a legend concerning the departure or death of a great many children from the town of Hamlin, Germany, in the Middle Ages. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in pied (multicolored, LIKE A PIMP) clothing, leading the children away from the town never to return. In the 16th century the story was expanded into a full narrative, in which the piper is a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizenry refuses to "pay the piper" for this service, he retaliates by turning his magic on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. Now, look at that pimpish dressing pied pip…

6 KILLED AT RELIGIOUS TEMPLE..NOT SURPRISED.. NEO NAZI TRASH RESPONSIBLE...A FEW YEARS AGO WHITE PREACHERS ON THE NEWS, ONE BURNING THE KORAN, ANOTHER ONE SAYING GOD WANTS OBAMA DEAD...TEA PARTY HOLDING UP SIGNS SAYING OBAMA THE N----- PRESIDENT, REPUBLICANS SAYING OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORGED....THIS WAS DOMESTIC TERROR ,HAT ELSE IS PLANNED.///.THIS COUNTRY SHOULD A STATUE OF VENUS AND SERENA WILLIAMS WHEN THEY STOP PLAYING TENNIS.THEY WON THEIR 3RD WOMENS DOUBLES GOLD MEDAL.SERENA WON GOLD AS THE WOMEN CHAMPION...VENUS WON WOMEN CHAMPION IN AUSTRALIA OLYMPICS...THEY HAVE CARRIED U.S. TENNIS FOR YEARS.......GIFTED HANDS MOVIE AGAIN, REA…

I was not familiar with this film until reading Ross Sarano's article, Is Ralph Bakshi's "Coonskin" Still Controversial in 2014? in Complex Pop Culture

New. Movie. Super. Fly . Black. Drug. King. Pin,Goes. To. ,Mexico, To. Get. Cocaine. Cocaine. ,Pimps And. Prostitution ,,Gangs,Have. Been Made. Glamorous ,By. Black. ,,Movies,Music. Black. Community. Has. Crack. Houses,Pimp ,Houses,Gangs. Slaughter. Black. People. In. The. ,Streets...The,Black. Panther. Movie ,Super. Hero. Entertainment, Will. Not. Stop,Making ,Black Genocide. Glamorous...Racist. White. Do. Not. Have. ,To,Do. Anything,Let. Black. People. Genocide. ,Corrupt. ,Future,Black. Generation.....

HYPERLINK TO AMAZON DELETED Cover image, author information, publication date, and book description on am*zon via above link. This is an intriguing account of three murders in the Jim Crow Segregationist South between the 1930s and the 1950s. All murders were connected with the illegal gambling game of bolita. The book covers a period on the Jim Crow south from the 1930s to the 1950s when African Americans were unable to call the police if attacked, and could not seek justice in the legal system. Readers will be fascinated to find that today’s police force originated with slave patrols, formed to return “property” to the pl…

After reading this article, it’s looking like crypto maybe a good way to have the Black American community support the Caribbean nations. I want to know what your thoughts are. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-10/jamaica-offers-free-money-to-digital-currency-s-first-adopters

Hey, Hoping all is well with you all. Wondering if any of my well-read folks belonging to this group can help me with a bit of dissertation research. Can anyone name a prominent African American writer, soldier, intellectual, athlete or entertainer from the south who experienced an epiphany after traveling/living outside the segregated south/US. Were they emboldened by newly found freedom elswhere? Did they go on to protest inequality in a monumental way? Especially interested in those figures who have published their experiences but fictional short stories or novels are useful too. Seeking names, authors and book titles. Blessings ; )

NEWS SAYS BLACK TUSKEGEE PILOTS HAVE DIED/MILTON PITTS CRENSHAW ,TUSKEGEE PILOT AN D TRAINER OF TUSKEGEE PILOTS DIED LAST WEEK,HE WAS 96/NEWS SAYS HE WAS THE FIRST BLACK PILOT TO FLY COMBAT IN WW2/WORLD WAR 2/MAL WHITFIELD ,WAS A TUSKEGEE PILOT AND WON GOLD MEDALS AT THE OLYMPICS/ HE DIED LAST WEEK ,HE WAS 91.//THESE AND MANY,MANY OTHERS BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR, THE SACRIFICES/

So much for bending the knee...

ABC News Hate Groups Grow as Racial Tipping Point Changes Demographics By COLLEEN CURRY May 18, 2012 The number of radical hate groups and militias has exploded in recent years in reaction to the changing makeup of America, and new census figures showing the majority of babies born in 2011 were non-white could fuel those simmering tensions, experts who track hate groups warned. "White supremacist groups have been having a meltdown since the census bureau predicted that non-Hispanic whites would lose the majority by 2050," said Mark Potok, spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups. "The demographic change in this country i…

ZIMMERMAN TRIAL/WILL THEE BE UNITY GATHERINGS/EXPLAINING CONSERVATION//WILD LIFE CONSERVATION=THE PRACTICE OF PROTECTING ENDANGERED ANIMALS AND PLANT SPECIES/OUR BLACK MALES NOT JUST IN THE INNER CITIES ARE BECOMING LIKE THE ENDANGERED ANIMALS AND PLANTS/////MENTIONING A FEW/THE AFRICAN BLACK RHINO//AFRICAN ELEPHANT/BECAUSE OF POACHERS WANTING THEIR HORNS AND TUSK///CHEETAHS,LEOPARDS,CHIMPANZEE ANDGAZELLE /// //A FEW YEARS AGO IN MICHIGAN A ISRAEL MAN FROM IISRAEL WAS STABBING BLACK MEN,KILLING 2/HE WAS ARRESTED AT AIRPORT BEFORE HE COULD GET ON PLANE, GO BACK TO ISRAEL//HAS NOT SAID WHY HE WAS STABING BLACK MEN////CAN …

Another Black Man Killed By White Police,This Time Baton Rouge,Louisiana.FBI Has Said White Police Are Involved With the KKK,White Supremacy Groups..FBI,Not In Front Of News, Cameras Talking About ,White Police,Being ,KKK,Members,KKK,Terrorist Organization.Protesting In Baton Rouge.In Memphis,Black Woman,Kills Her 4 Children,Where Are The Anger Protest For Those Innocent Black . Lives?

I frequently see Amazon charging more for a product that other vendors. This example was particularly egregious because Amazon was charging more that EVERY other vendor I checked. I was able to check multiple prices in my search engine query. I visited Amazon just to make sure and to get the screen shot. I brought the telescope from Target because they offered free shipping, and honestly, because they were not Amazon. The product was not available locally. Other than the fact that Amazon could get away with inflating the price, there was no discernible reason for Amazon charge more for this telescope. Many people use Amazon as the first place t…

New Black / POC Historical Marketing and Community. Please look around and see if they’d be useful to you and your story properties. http://www.blackhistoricalfiction.com/ What's this site all about? Briefly? In writing an African British historical novel (Becca DuMaurier in the British Restoration [1660] and Glorious Revolution [1688] periods) for a few years, it has included much research, and yet... ...I found in all that time not one dedicated home site fully committed to collecting and marketing Black, African, or People of Color Historical Romance, Historical Erotica, and few for Black, African and People of …

YESTERDAY REV. AL SHARPTON SAID THERE SHOULD BE DIVERSITY WITHIN THE PEOPLE WHO SELECT MOVIES TO BE NOMINATE FOR ACADEMY AWARDS,THE OSCARS AWARDS/SEEMS NO ACTORS FOR THE MOVIE SELMA WAS NOMINATED./.NOBODY NOMINATED/NOT THE ACTOR FOR ACTING LIKE DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING/I THINK SUNDAY NIGHT,OPRAH WINFREY IS HONORING BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEERS,I THINK I SAW ON PREVIEW ANDREW YOUNG, 50 YEARS HONORING SELMA MARCH///

News Says, Russians Had Facebook Ads ,Seemingly To ,Attack,Black Lives Matter,Baltimore Riots ,To Help Trump,Get,Elected ,The Racial Divide In America...News,Still,Talking About Football Players,Kneeling,Down..The News Not Saying ,WHITE Police,Have,Been Fired For Being Klan,KKK,Members,The Past,Few Years.. Neo Nazi In The Military Training Themselves,For The Race War In America..Trump Said,Football,Players Were Disgraceful ,Trump Did Not Say,Neo Nazi Were Disgraceful ,In Charlottesville,With Nazi Outfits ,Torches And Guns. FBI Not On The News,,Saying White Police Are Klan Members,Neo Nazi In The Military. White People,Have No Problem Neo Nazi In The Military, Saying Foot…

Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words 2020 115 minutes Documentary Cast and credits Actors Clarence Thomas, Joe Biden, Anita Hill, Ginni Thomas Producers Michael Pack Director Michael Pack Writers Michael Pack Description Although Clarence Thomas remains a controversial figure, few know him beyond his contentious confirmation battle. But beyond the headlines, Thomas' life is a classic American tale: born poor in the segregated South, only to become one of the most influential justices in the high…

HOPEFULLY HE WILL BE REELECTED.BUT THE BLACK COMMUNITIES OBSESSION WITH SELF GENOCIDE WILL NOT STOP...DRUGS , GANGS IRRESPONSIBLE BLACK MEN AND WOMEN,. NO, SEXUAL DISCIPLINE..THE CHURCH IS ONE OF THE ROOTS OF THE PROBLEM...NAACP NOT RESPECTING BLACK WOMEN , NOT WANTING A BLACK WOMAN PRESIDENT OF THE NAACP...BLACK LEADERS ,PREACHERS HAVE BECOME OVERSEER'S OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE....IF HE DOES EVERYTHING YOU WANT HIM TO DO, ,BLACK SELF DESTRUCTION IS TOO GREAT. .

BABY AMIR IS MISSING . ON CNN NANCY GRACE, BABY AMIR MISSING IN SOUTH CAROLINA...MOTHER BEHIND BARS.MOTHER TOLD POLICE SHE DID NOT HAVE A BABY.GRANDMOTHER REPORTED BABY MISSING.. MOTHER CRASHED CAR...DO NOT THINK BABY FATHER IS INVOLVED WITH CHILD RAISING. MORE STUPID BLACK MEN....WHERE IS THE NAACP, BLACK CHURCH AND BLACK POLITICIANS WHEN BLACK CHILDREN ARE MISSING////.ALSO THE IDIOT MISSISSIPPI GOVERNOR PARDONED GUILTY MURDERERS BLACK AND WHITE/THE NAACP SHOULD BE PROTESTING THE RELEASE OF GUILTY BLACK MEN.. MURDERERS////I WILL NOT BE SURPRISED IF STUPID BLACK WOMEN EMBRACE THESE BLACK MEN WHO ARE MURDERERS ............/.

AALBC.com Interview with President Jimmy Carter Hey Cynique Kam asked your question. I trust too much did not get loss in translation In 2002, President Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development." The author of 25 books, here, he talks about his latest, NIV Lessons from Life Bible.

In 1944 Recy Taylor Was Raped By White Men In Alabama . She Was Walking Home After Church When She Was Grabbed By White Men And Raped.. The All White Jury Refused To Find,The White Men Guilty. She Was 24 When She Was Raped,By The Racist Trash White Men..She Had To Raise Her,Younger Siblings At 17 When Her Mother Died..She Died,At Age 97 . She Died 3 Weeks After A Documentary ,Was ,Released About Her,The Rape Of Recy Taylor..Another Horror,Chapter In Black History........

Chicago’s western suburbs were hit hard by a deluge of rain this weekend. Lightning flashed, thunder boomed, and the rain fell, and fell, and fell. The fund-raising gala sponsored by the local black heritage museum of which I am a staff member was held at the club house of the race track that borders my town, and I should’ve known after the first race was postponed due to threatening skies, and the horse I bet on in the third race came in last, that I was in for an "erratic" evening. By the time my friend dropped me off at my house, the rain was really coming down, but I wasn’t concerned. It’s not like I hadn’t experienced bad weather before. Anyhoo, as the n…

http://aalbc.it/vernondavis Check out our interview with Vernon Davis who was the big star in the SF 49ers upset win over the New Orleans Saints. Vernon scored the 1st touchdown and then the final one (with just 13 seconds left) before breaking down and crying on national TV. While Tim Tebow has been enjoying most of the NFL limelight lately, perhpas you'll be more inspired by Vern's story of overcoming the odds and his commitment to giving back. Plus he is a reader :-)

52nd Day of ‪#‎BlackHistoryMonth‬: Walter Anthony Rodney was born in Georgetown, Guyana on March 23, 1942, Rodney's "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" should be required reading for all Americans.

In. Virginia. Near. A. Historic. Black. Church. From. A. Archaeology ,,,Digging. Bones. Were. Found. .First. Baptist. Church. Is one. Of. The. Oldest. Churches. In. The. Country 70- Small. Bones. Were,,Found. Descendants. Want. To. Know. Who. They. Were. So,,They. Can Honor. Them. March. 7- Is. The. Anniversary. Of. The,,Selma. ,Alabama. March. Across. The. Edmund Pettus Bridge. ,,,John. Lewis. Tried. To. Lead. Over,600- Marchers. ,They. Were. ,,Attacked. By. State. Troopers. Brutally. Beaten .....White. Police. ,Are. As. Evil. Vile. Now. As. They. Were. Then.....

There may be a liquidity crunch that cascades through the industry. Celsius is in reorganisation.

See celebs, established & first time authors shine... The Book Look is Back!

AS BLACK PEOPLE CELEBRATE DR. KING ,WE ,BLACK PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED,NO UNITY/BLACK PEOPLE ARE SEGREGATED FROM OTHER BLACK PEOPLE.SOME WEALTHY, BLACK PEOPLE SEEM LIKE THEY ARE TRANSFORMED INTO ANOTHER RACE/YEARS AGO,DR. KING AND OTHERS PROTESTED THE KILLING OF BLACK PEOPLE,BLACK PEOPLE,STREET GANGS ARE GENOCIDING THEIR OWN PEOPLE/.SOME OF THE REPUBLICANS THAT WERE AGAINST DR. KING HAVING A HOLIDAY ARE STILL IN THE GOVERNMENT...REPUBLICAN STEVE SCALISE WHO IN 2002 WAS AT A WHITE SUPREMACY GATHERING ORGANIZED BY NAZI GRAND DRAGON DAVID DUKES, //THE NEWS TALKS ABOUT TERRORIST IN OTHER COUNTRIES,KLAN OR NEO NAZI ,…

Subsume talking with black creators https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=1816&type=status

INDEPENDENCE DAY,WE SHOULD HAVE RESPECT AND REFLECT ON THE BLACK HISTORY SACRIFICES. .I THINK OF KWANZA PRINCIPLES. IF WE WENT BY THE KWANZAA PRINCIPLES SOME PROBLEMS WE COULD SOLVE OURSELVES...IT AMAZES ME ,THAT IS DIFFICULT TO DO...BUT THERE ARE JUDASES IF THE COMMUNITY AND IN RELIGION...

"All Fridays Matter" It seems like the corporate driven frenzy to start spending for Christmas starts before we can get through with Halloween. It is crazy the whole purpose of Chirstmas being a religious holiday has been completely obscured by "the suits." Today Amazon sent me two emails before 5:00 a.m. to remind me of the deals available for Cyber Monday--It is still November!. Since I pretty much have everything I need right now and I don't have any "mad money," Cyber Monday is pretty much a non-event for me. As a book seller, it definitely makes no difference as books are discounted all year round, and there is no really no urgen…

Enjoy, if you know some kids, share them, have them color it. The artist is GDBEE If you want more coloring pages, click the link after the image. https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2268&type=status

The Republicans' big lie about reconciliation By E.J. Dionne Jr. Thursday, March 4, 2010; A21 For those who feared that Barack Obama did not have any Lyndon Johnson in him, the president's determination to press ahead and get health-care reform done in the face of Republican intransigence came as something of a relief. Obama's critics have regularly accused him of not being as tough or wily or forceful as LBJ was in pushing through civil rights and the social programs of his Great Society. Obama seemed willing to let Congress go its own way and was so anxious to look bipartisan that he wouldn't even take his own side in arguments with Republicans. …

INDEPENDENCE DAY,WE SHOULD HAVE RESPECT AND REFLECT ON THE BLACK HISTORY SACRIFICES. .I THINK OF KWANZA PRINCIPLES. IF WE WENT BY THE KWANZAA PRINCIPLES SOME PROBLEMS WE COULD SOLVE OURSELVES...IT AMAZES ME ,THAT IS DIFFICULT TO DO...BUT THERE ARE JUDASES IF THE COMMUNITY AND IN RELIGION...

IN THE 1921' THERE WAS BLACK WALL STREET IN TULSA OKLAHOMA... IN CHICAGO YEARS AGO THERE WAS A VERSION OF BLACK WALL STREET.HOW WAS IT DONE YEARS AGO, BLACK UNITY, BUT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE T O DO NOW.//////BLACK COMMUNITIES, BUSINESSES HAVING UNITY........