The African nation of Mozambique endured a brutal, nine-year war to gain its independence from Portugal. The war ended on this day in 1975, with the European colonizers ruling for 477 years prior. The seeds for the independence war were planted as a result of anti-colonial rhetoric and communist ideals beginning to take hold in […]
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The government has failed to learn the lessons of Windrush | New Stateman
Ministers don’t appear to understand what racial discrimination is, argues the Runnymede Trust.
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Only Surviving Arabic Slave Narrative Written in the United States Digitized by Library of Congress | Smithsonian Magazine
Omar Ibn Said, a wealthy intellectual from West Africa, wrote about his capture and enslavement in America
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Angela Davis Says She’s ‘Stunned’ After Award Is Revoked Over Her Views on Israel | The New York Times
Niraj Chokshi, The New York Times [dropcap]Angela[/dropcap] Davis, the activist and scholar, said this week that she was “stunned” after a civil rights group in her native Birmingham, Ala., reversed its decision to honor her with an award amid protests over her support for a boycott of Israel. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Professor Davis, once a global […]
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From Slavery to Civil Rights and Environmental Racism | The Washington Informer
Decades ago, civil rights leader Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., who now serves a president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, coined the term “environmental racism.” It not only proved a true term, but it also linked several eras to a present day that still harkens back to centuries of demeaning and demoralization of Black Americans since the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade 500 years ago.
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Anthony Browder Makes History as the First African American to Lead and Fund an Archeological Excavation Project in Egypt | Los Angeles Sentinel
Sentinel News Service , Los Angeles Sentinel [dropcap]Washington[/dropcap] DC’s own, Anthony “Tony” Browder makes history as the first African American to lead and fund an archeological excavation project in Egypt. In May 2018, Mr. Browder, his daughter Atlantis Tye Browder, and the ASA Restoration Project excavation team discovered 2700-year-old Kushite artifacts that were recently installed […]
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Was Mahatma Gandhi a racist? | BBC
Mahatma Gandhi has been variously described as an anti-colonial protester, a religious thinker, a pragmatist, a radical who used non-violence effectively to fight for causes, a canny politician and a whimsical Hindu patriarch… But was India’s greatest leader also a racist?
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In Pictures: Mandela’s life | Al Jazeera
The South African leader rose from rural obscurity to become one of the world’s most respected and loved figures.
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Museum of Black Civilisations aims to ‘decolonise knowledge’ | Al Jazeera
A large museum will open in Dakar, 52 years after Senegal’s first president presented a post-colonial cultural vision.
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8 African heroes who led massive slave rebellions in the Caribbean but are less celebrated | Face2Face Africa
A little over the past decade, the stories of powerful kings and queens who worked hard at building powerful kingdoms and sustaining them for centuries have been unearthed to redefine the history of Africa as opposed to what has been fed to the masses by the West for several decades.
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