Golden Globes Announced: “Twelve Years a Slave” and Kerry Washington in Contention
• December 12, 2013 • Comments Off on Golden Globes Announced: “Twelve Years a Slave” and Kerry Washington in ContentionPosted in Acting, African American History, Africans, Awards, Black Actors and Actresses, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Consumer Fraud, Crime, Cultural History, Drug Culture/Industry, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Film, International Terrorism, Kenya, Love, People of Color, Race, Scandal, Slavery, Television, Television Series, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Captain Phillips", 12 Years a Slave, African, African Americans, American Hustle, Barkhad Abdi, Best Actor Drama, Best Director, Black Women, Blacks, Bradley Cooper, Bruce Dern, Cate Blanchett, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Golden Globes, Goodwife, Idris Elba, Inside Llewyn Davis, Judi Dench, Kenya, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael Fassbinder, Nebraska, Robert Redford, Sandra Bullock, Slave, Somali-American, Somalia, Steve McQueen, The Oscars, Wolf of Wall Street, Yemen
Well, We’re Not Going to Claim THIS Ancestor: DNA Study of Adolf Hitler Shows He Had Jewish and African Roots
• August 25, 2010 • 1 CommentPosted in Africans, Cultural History, European History, Germany, Hate Crimes, Race, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), War Crimes, Women, World War II
Tags: Adolf Hitler, African, Alexander Stuart-Houston, Alois Hitler, Alois Schickelgruber, Ancestors, Anti-Semite, Anti-Semitism, Arab, Austria, Brigitte Hamann, Der Fuhrer, DNA, Dollersheim, Eva Braun, Forebears, Genocide, Goebbels, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Ian Kershaw, Jean-Paul Mulders, Jewish, Josef Stalin, KGB, Leopold Frankenberger, Marc Vermeeren, Maria Schickelgruber, Origins, Race, Racism, Russia, Self-Hating Jew, SMERSH, Systematic Murder, The Anschluss, The Gestapo, The Wehrmacht
Bad News for Haiti: Wyclef Jean Running For President?
• July 27, 2010 • 4 CommentsPosted in American Foreign Policy, American History, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, European History, France, Haiti, Haitians/Francophone Caribbean, People of Color, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, Sexuality, The Catholic Church, The Rest of the World
Tags: Africa, African, Baptist, Bill Clinton, Blacks, Catholicism, Duvalierists, Fanmi Lavalas, Haiti, Haiti Observateur, Haitian, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Kreyol, Liberation Theology, Nepotism, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Presidential Elections, Raymond Joseph, Ronald Reagan, South Africa, The Black Republic, The Eighties, The Fugees, The Nineties, The Salic Law, The United States, Voudou, Wyclef Jean, Zakiya Khatou-Chevassus
First Black Elected to Public Office in Russia
• July 25, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in Africans, Black People, Class, European History, Love, Race, Russia, The Rest of the World
Tags: African, African Immigrants, Benin, Common Sense, Corruption, Criminal Elements, Jean Gregoire Sagbo, Moscow, Nationalists, Novozavidovo, Politician, Politics, Racism, Right Wing, Russia, Russian Mafia, Sagbo, Soviet Russia, The Grio
The Ancestors Bring Historian Basil Davidson, 95, Home
• July 10, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in African American History, Africans, American History, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Books, Brazil, Class, Cuba, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Film, Haiti, Haitians/Francophone Caribbean, History, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Journalism and Ethics, Nigeria, Race, Senegal, The Rest of the World, United Kingdom, Women, World War II, Zimbabwe
Tags: "Africa: A Voyage of Discovery with Basil Davidson", "The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation State", African, African Americans, African History, Africanist, Afrocentrists, Amazon.com, American History, Anti-Colonialism, Anti-Fascist Fighter, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Racism, Basil Davidson, Basil Risbridger Davidson, Blacks, Britain, British, Colonialism, Edward Said, Eric Hobsbawm, European History, Historian, History, Journalism, Journalist, Racism, Texas School Board, The Atlantic Slave Trade, The Slave Trade, The West
Madonna Has Mercy
• June 12, 2009 • 2 CommentsPosted in Celebrities/Royals, Class, Race
Tags: "The Early Show", Adoption, African, African Culture, Africans, CBS, Celebrity, Celebrity Adoptions, Chichewa, Chifundo, Child Slaves, Child Soldiers, Children, Madonna, Malawi, Malawian, Mercy James, Money, Raising Malawi
Iman: Michelle Obama “Not a Great Beauty”
• May 17, 2009 • 18 CommentsPosted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Fashion, Michelle Obama, Race, Women
Tags: African, African American, African Americans, Aging, Barbara Smith, Beauty, Color, Eritrea, Eritreans, Ethiopia, Ethiopians, First Lady of the United States, Glamour, Harvard, Huffington Post, Iman, Internalized Racism, Jack and Jill Politics, Looksism, Parade Magazine, Princeton, Self Image, Somalia, Somalis, Style, Zuleikha Haywood
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