Archive for the 'Exploration and Colonization' Category
Some Saturday Love: Eric Clapton, “Change the World,” 1996
• January 14, 2012 • 6 CommentsPosted in Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Discrimination, Domestic Terrorism, Eric Clapton, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Immigration, International Terrorism, Islam/Sufism, Jews, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, People of Color, Sexuality, United Kingdom
Tags: "Phenomenon", B.B. King, Babyface, Blues, Christopher Hitchens, Clapton, Clapton is God, Enoch Powell, Eric Clapton, Fender Stratocaster, Guitar, Love, MTV, MTV Unplugged, Nathan East, Pattie Boyd, Pattie Harrison, Racism, Rock, Sheryl Crow, The 2000s, The Eighties, The Nineties, The Two Teens
Olympic Sprinter Lee Evans, 63, Has a Brain Tumor and No Health Insurance (w/Update)
• January 5, 2012 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black Expatriates, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Chicanos/Latinos, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Discrimination, Education, Exploration and Colonization, Health, People of Color, Race, Race and the Health Care Debate, The Brain
Tags: "Sicko", "Speed City", "The Nation", 1968 Summer Olympics, African Americans, Avery Brundage, Black Women, Blacks, California, Dave Zirin, East San Jose, Evans, Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt, Geronimo Pratt, Growing Up, John Carlos, Kipchoge Keino, Larry James, Latinos, Lee Evans, Memoir, New Orleans, Nigeria, Olympic, Overfelt High School, Overfelt Royals, PayPal, Public Schools, San Jose, San Jose State, San Jose State University, Spartans, The Seventies, The Sixties, Tommie Smith, University of South Alabama, William C. Overfelt High School
Proving That “Hogan’s Heroes” Lied to You: An Op-Ed + Video Regarding Blacks in Germany, Past, Present and Future
• October 24, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Africans, American History, Belgium, Black People, Books, Cameroon, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Film, France, Germany, Haiti, Mental Health/Psychology, Namibia, People of Color, Race, The Rest of the World, War Crimes, World War II
Tags: "Black Survivors of the Holocaust", "Hitler's Forgotten Victims", "Hogan's Heroes, African Americans, Belgian, Biracials, Black, Black Women, Blacks, Cameroon, Colonization, Dachau, Dora-Mittelbau, Genetic Experiments, Geneva Convention, German, Germany, Gestapo, Growing Up, Haitian Creole, Hans Hauck, Holocaust, Ivan Dixon, Jean Marcel Nicolas, Jean Voste, Jews, Josephine Baker, Kalamu ya Salaam, Lari Gilges, Mein Kampf, MeTV, Namibia, Nazi, Nazi Germany, Nazism, NeoGriot, Racial Purity, Racism, Rhineland Bastards, Staff Sgt. Kinchloe, Sterilized, Tanzania, Togo
The President and The First Lady in Ireland
• May 23, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, Africans, American Foreign Policy, American History, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Education, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Immigration, Ireland, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Love, Obama Administration, People of Color, Race, Scotland, The Rest of the World, United Kingdom, Women
Tags: African American, African Americans, Ancestry, Barack Obama, Blacks, Enda Kenny, George W. Bush, Great Famine (Ireland), Ireland, Irish American, Irish of Color, Love, Moneygall, Muhammad Ali, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Racism, Republic of Ireland, Taoiseach, The Great Famine, The Irish Diaspora, United States
The Case of Libyan Iman al-Obeidi: Raping Women Is Still A Terrorist Act
• March 28, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in American Foreign Policy, Arabs, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Education, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Hate Crimes, Islam/Sufism, Journalism and Ethics, Libya, Mental Health/Psychology, Obama Administration, People of Color, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Rape/Sex Crimes, Revolutions, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), War Crimes, Women
Tags: Abuse, Aisha Ahmed, Barbary Pirates, Benghazi, CNN, Democracy, Foreign Press Corps, Hague, Hasan Modeer, Iman al-Obeidi, Law Student, Lebanon, Libya, Link TV, Middle East, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Muslims, Nation Building, NATO, NBN TV, Neo-Colonialism, Nicolas Sarkozy, North Africa, Rebels, Sexual Abuse, The Hague, The Rixos Hotel, Tobruk, Tripoli, Uprising, War
Saturday Night Music, March 19, 2011: Sting, “Sister Moon,” 1987
• March 20, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in Africans, Big Beautiful Women, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Books, Class, Cultural History, Education, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Fiction Writing, Love, Memoir, Race, Sexuality, The Rest of the World, United Kingdom, Who I Am, Women
Tags: "...Nothing Like The Sun", "A Clockwork Orange", "Sister Moon", Anthony Burgess, Birthdays, Black Women, Blacks, Dark, Dreadlocks, Earth, England, English Literature, Evil, Full Moon, Good, Light, Literary Allusions, Literature, Lucy Negro, Medusa, Moon, References, Shakespeare, Sonnet, Sonnet No. 130, Sonnets, Sting, Super Moon, The Oakland Colosseum, The Seventies, William Shakespeare
Former President Jean Bertrand Aristide Returning to Haiti
• March 12, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Race, Obama Administration, Education, The Rest of the World, Class, Democrats in Name Only, American Foreign Policy, South Africa, Brazil, Natural Disasters, Haiti, Africans, France, Canada, The Clintons, Haitians/Francophone Caribbean, Exploration and Colonization
Tags: South Africa, Jesse Jackson, Blacks, Drug Cartels, Racism, Harry Belafonte, Love, United States, Self-Worth, Self-Respect, Democracy, Haiti, Haitians, The United Nations, Danny Glover, Exile, Exiles, Earthquake, The Caribbean, Jean-Claude Duvalier, The Haitian Earthquake, Fanmi Lavalas, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, WikiLeaks, United Nations Security Council, "Baby Doc" Duvalier, Maryse Narcisse, Organization of American States, Michel Martelly, Mirlande Manigat, Pretoria S.A., Passport, President Rene Preval, President Jacob Zuma, Madame Mildred Preval, Puppets, Drug Money, Return, Glen Ford, MINUSTAH
The Most Powerful Black Women in Europe in 2010
• December 6, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in Black People, Fashion, Race, Music, Celebrities/Royals, Women, Education, Love, The Rest of the World, Film, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Class, Health, People of Color, Sports, Africans, Haitians/Francophone Caribbean, African American History, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Cultural History, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Immigration
Tags: African American, African Americans, Europe, Blacks, Spain, United States, Black People, Black Women, History, Singers, Norway, African American History, Afro-British, Models, Liechtenstein, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Grace Bumbry, Sweden, Afro-Swedish, Afro-Greek, Afro-French, Afro-German, Afro-Russian, Princess Angela of Liechtenstein, Athletes, Politicians, Activists, Educators, Dounne Alexander, Trisha Goddard, Yvette Jarvis
Good Monday Morning with Novalima
• November 1, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Africans, Black People, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Cultural History, Exploration and Colonization, Love, Music, Music Videos, People of Color, Peru, Race, Spirituality, The Catholic Church
Tags: Afro-Peruvian, Arts and Entertainment, Blacks, Candela, Coba, Health, Latino Music, Latinos, Love, Music, NeoGriot, Novalima, Peru, PR Newswire, South America, Tulum, United States, Xcaret
More Skepticism Voiced About Wyclef Jean Candidacy for President of Haiti
• August 8, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Race, Obama Administration, Celebrities/Royals, New Orleans, Hurricanes, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Class, American Foreign Policy, Natural Disasters, Haiti, The Clintons, Haitians/Francophone Caribbean, European History, American History, Exploration and Colonization, Black Britons/British Caribbean
Tags: Middle-Class, South Africa, Blacks, Bill Clinton, Katrina, New Orleans, Haiti, Reconstruction, The Black Republic, Wyclef Jean, Preval, Fanmi Lavalas, Raymond Joseph, Kreyol, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Kréyol Aïsyen, Former Ambassador to the United States, Aiyiti, Sean Penn, Pras, "The Jamaica Observer", Garment Industry, Mining, Agriculture, Rich, Exploitation, Paternalism, "The New York Daily News", President Preval, Ansel Herz
The Ancestors Bring Historian Basil Davidson, 95, Home
• July 10, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in Black People, Race, Journalism and Ethics, Books, History, Women, Education, The Rest of the World, Film, Cuba, Class, Brazil, Haiti, Africans, Nigeria, World War II, Documentary, Haitians/Francophone Caribbean, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Zimbabwe, United Kingdom, African American History, European History, American History, Exploration and Colonization, Cultural History, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Senegal
Tags: African Americans, Blacks, British, Racism, African, Britain, Anti-Racism, Journalist, American History, History, Historian, European History, The Slave Trade, African History, Basil Davidson, Anti-Colonialism, Anti-Fascist Fighter, Basil Risbridger Davidson, The West, Colonialism, The Atlantic Slave Trade, "The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation State", "Africa: A Voyage of Discovery with Basil Davidson", Amazon.com, Eric Hobsbawm, Edward Said, Texas School Board, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-Imperialist, Journalism, Africanist, Afrocentrists
Another View of The Origins of AIDS
• May 1, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Africans, American History, Class, Cultural History, Documentaries, Documentary, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Film, Health, HIV Positive, Memoir, Race, Science, Television, The Rest of the World
Tags: "Frontline", "The Age of AIDS", African Americans, AIDS, Albert Sabin, Blacks, Channel 4, Children, Chimpanzee Kidney Culture, Drugs, Fear, Growing Up, Heterosexuality, Hilary Kaprowski, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Jonas Salk, Jones Generation, Mistakes, Monkey Meat, Oral Polio Vaccine, PBS, Polio, Racism, Research Laboratory, Sabin, Salk, Sex, Sexual Transmission, Sexuality, The Belgian Congo, The March of Dimes, The Nineties, Tom Curtis, Vaccine, W.D. Hamilton
Don’t Believe The “Frontline” Update, “The Quake,” about Haiti
• April 27, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Race, History, Obama Administration, Television, American Politics, The Rest of the World, Film, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Class, People of Color, American Foreign Policy, Documentaries, Public Television, Haiti, The Clintons, Documentary, Haitians/Francophone Caribbean, American History, Exploration and Colonization
Tags: Neo-Colonialism, PBS, Corruption, Haiti, Haitians, "Frontline", The Black Republic, Ayiti, Aristide, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Fanmi Lavalas, National Public Radio, Distortion, Oil, The Haitian Blogger, Self-Determination, "The Quake", Elites, Deals, Destinies
Memo to Henry Louis “Skip” Gates About Slavery and Reparations: With Friends Like You, Who Needs Enemies?
• April 24, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Obama Administration, Public Intellectualism, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: African American History, African History, African Kings, Aggression, American History, Americans, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., European Americans, Europeans, Guns, Henry Louis Gates Jr., History, Homeowners, Instigated Wars, Neo-Confederate, Op-Ed Contributor, Redlining, Reparations, Right Wing, Skip Gates, Slave Trading, Slavery, Sugar Cane, Teabaggers, The Akan, The Caribbean, The Fon, The Kongo, The Mbundu, The Middle Passage, The New York Times, The Slave Trade, Tobacco, Voters' Rights, Wars, White Supremacist, Whites
BBC Production of Zadie Smith’s “White Teeth” at Hulu
• March 25, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Africans, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Class, Crime, Domestic Terrorism, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Fiction Writing, Film, Health, History, India, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Public Television, Race, Religion, Sexuality, Spirituality, Television, The Rest of the World, United Kingdom, Women, World War II
Tags: "White Teeth", Anti-Immigration, Black Muslims, Blacks, Britain, Culture, Immigration, India, Indians, Islam, Islamists, Love, Malcolms, Neo-Colonialism, Pakistan, Pakistanis, World Culture, Zadie Smith
Why Only Black People Will Read and Learn From Black History…And Then, Not Even All of Us Will Get It
• March 13, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Aborigines/Blacks, African American History, Africans, American History, American Politics, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Education, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Health, History, Mental Health/Psychology, Native Americans/First Nations, People of Color, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, Sexuality, Spirituality, Women
Tags: African American History, African Americans, American History, Anti-Racism, Blacks, Clinical Psychology, Dr. Joy DeGruy-Leary, European History, Evaluating Self, Healing, P.T.S.S., Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Racism, Rape, Self-Examination, Self-Reflect
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