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Black Lives Matter: ‘Get Your Knee off My Neck’, ‘I Can’t breathe’

Luvuyo Mthimkhulu Dondolo, Ph.D. — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:07:06 +0000

‘I was born to work up to my grave, but I was not born to be a slave’ – Maya Angelou (2014) The United States (US) has a peculiar history of racialised police brutality. This phenomena points to a number of issues in American society and some with a long tradition that dates back to [...]

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7 Black Scientists and Engineers Who Helped Make Space Travel Possible

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 13:54:09 +0000

Source: Atlantablackstar.com Robert Shurney (1921-2007) Dr. Robert Shurney was a physicist from Tennessee State University, who worked at NASA. As a Marshall Space Flight Center engineer, he accomplished several major and significant tasks for NASA, including designing the tires for the moon buggy used during the Apollo 15 mission in 1972. His ingenious design used [...]

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Martin Luther King Jr. Biography

Consciousness Admin — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 20:05:34 +0000

Source: http://www.biography.com Civil Rights Activist, Minister (1929–1968) Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. Synopsis Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. King, both a [...]

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8 of the Most Revolting and Abominable Acts of Cruelty Inflicted on Enslaved Blacks

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:25:42 +0000

Source: http://atlantablackstar.com The Atrocities of the Infamous Madame Lalaurie Louisiana slave owner Madame Lalaurie was one of the most infamous slave owners in the state’s history. The conditions she subjected enslaved people to were so heinous and despicable that even other slave owners were appalled by her actions. Journalists of the time couldn’t even bring [...]

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5 Unbelievable and Ingenious Ways Enslave Blacks Escaped Slavery

Consciousness Admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:24:50 +0000

Source: http://atlantablackstar.com Henry “Box” Brown Mails Himself Out of Slavery In 1849 an enslaved man in Virginia by the name of Henry Brown managed to escape slavery by mailing himself to freedom. Brown crammed himself in a small crate that was only 3 feet long and 2 feet wide. Standing at 5’8, getting into the [...]

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9 Facts Proving Slavery Was Responsible for American and European Economic Success

Consciousness Admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:59:11 +0000

Source: http://atlantablackstar.com Without the significant labor to cultivate the land Europeans claimed to have “discovered,” it would have been for naught. The notion of Europeans or Native Americans working the land was not seriously considered. It was the enslaved Africans who were put to work to grow the abundant land into livable housing, farms and [...]

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8 European Nations That Hold ‘World Records’ for the Mistreatment of Black People

Consciousness Admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:44:56 +0000

Source: http://atlantablackstar.com Most Kidnappings of Africans From the 15th to 19th century, the Portuguese exported 4.7 million enslaved Africans to the Americas, making it Europe’s largest trafficker of human beings. First Death Camps Between 1904 and 1908, before German death camps were used to kill Jews in Nazi Germany, as many as 65,000 Herero (80 percent of [...]

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6 Startling Things About Sex Farms During Slavery That You May Not Know

Consciousness Admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:30:09 +0000

Source: http://atlantablackstar.com The fertility of enslaved women was examined by owners to make sure they were able to birth as many children as possible. Secretly, slaveowners would impregnate enslaved women and when the child was born and grew to an age where he could work on the fields, they would take the “very same children [...]

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