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Brixton: Flames on the Frontline – Episode 3: Feel the Heat – BBC Sounds
Gangs of far right racist thugs are attacking immigrants on the streets and in their homes. Now they’re turning their attention to black power organisations and Brixton is in their sights – with terrifying consequences. And one man is on … Continue reading
‘I’ll be at front of queue to change my slave name’
By Anna Holligan BBC News, The Hague For more than three centuries the Dutch shipped more than half a million Africans across the Atlantic Descendants of African slaves have told the BBC they will change their surnames, after a Dutch … Continue reading
The Top 8 Places Where Africans Were Taken From During The Transatlantic Slave Trade
A brief description and history of where Africans in the diaspora were taken from and to and the amount of Africans taken.[…]
Meet the Most Feared Women in History | Messy Nessy
From daughters to soldiers, from wives to weaponized, they remain the only documented frontline female troops in modern warfare history. A sub-saharan band of female terminators who left their European colonisers shaking in their boots, foreign observers named them the … Continue reading
The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 1 | Radiolab | WNYC Studios
The Rise and Fall of Black Swan. It was Motown before Motown, FUBU before FUBU: Black Swan Records, the record company founded by Harry Pace. The Vanishing of Harry Pace was created by Jad Abumrad and Shima Oliaee. Harry Pace founded … Continue reading
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African Countries NOT IN Africa
How much African ancestry does one have to have in order to be considered black and what percentage has to meet this criteria in order to be considered a black nation? Millions of Africans have been emigrating to Europe and … Continue reading
Believe in Ghosts
t is estimated that there are only 50,000 Black farmers in the US. Samantha is one of those farmers. She is on a mission to establish a farm as a Black Woman in the deep south, and be the voice … Continue reading
BBC World Service – Outlook, Banned from voting for my wife, so we changed the law
Desmond and Sheena Meade’s historic battle to give ex-felons the right to vote in Florida When Desmond Meade’s wife Sheena ran for public office in Florida, he wanted nothing more than for her to win. But there was one thing … Continue reading
Rediscovering the African roots of Brazil’s martial art capoeira
An older form of the Brazilian dance-like martial art has been forgotten by many. Brazil is well known as the home of the dance-like martial art capoeira, but its roots in fact lie across the Atlantic. In Angola, one man … Continue reading
Legacies of British Slave Ownership – Prof Catherine Hall
For too long the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade in 1807 and slavery in the British colonies in the Americas in 1833 have dominated the ways in which Britons have (mis)remembered slavery. The Legacies of British Slave-ownership project at … Continue reading
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