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14 African Nations Being Forced By France to Pay Taxes for the ‘Benefits’ of Colonialism

Wesley Pepper — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 14:50:01 +0000

Source: AtlantaBlackstar.com Fourteen nations listed below are in agreement to deposit 65 percent of all foreign currency reserves in a shared reserve fund to France. The countries established the Monetary and Economic Union of West Africa. Their currency, the CFA-Franc, is printed under supervision of the French National Bank in Chamaliéres, France. Christof Lehmann [...]

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8 African Countries Whose Independence Is a Direct Result of the Teachings of Marcus Garvey

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 22:12:33 +0000

Source: AtlantaBlackStar.com Zimbabwe Zimbabwe, formerly known as Rhodesia, is one of the greatest examples of a country being impacted by Garveyism. According to an article titled “The Seeds are Sown: The Impact of Garveyism in Zimbabwe in the Interwar Years,” Marcus Garvey’s teachings had an “electrifying effect on colonial Zimbabwean migrant workers in South Africa, [...]

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6 Reasons Why ‘Black Lives Matter’ Must Move Beyond Protests

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 13:40:42 +0000

Source: AtlantaBlackStar.com Protests Don’t Lead to Change Without any real plan of action, protests never lead to any real change. While #BlackLivesMatter has been incredibly effective at getting thousands of people together to march or protest, the aftermath of the rallies often results in nothing more than social media buzz. The Atlantic’s Moises Naim recently [...]

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‘Black Lives Matter’ Is About More Than Police Brutality, It’s About The Harm Done to the Entire Black Community in a Racist System

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 13:05:39 +0000

Source: AtlantaBlackStar.com The phrase “Black lives matter” has been used countless times as a stance against racial profiling and the use of excessive force by police against unarmed Black citizens, but the true meaning of the phrase is not just about saving Black lives. It’s a call to improve the quality of Black lives as [...]

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Not All Peaceful: 13 Racist Quotes Gandhi Said About Black People

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 11:56:20 +0000

Source: AtlantaBlackStar.com All quotes are direct quotations from The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. They are taken from his writings and statements during the years he spent working as an attorney in South Africa, before he went back to India in 1915 to fight for independence. Note: “Kaffir” is an offensive term in South Africa [...]

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13 Shameful Pictures of Europeans Placing African People in Human Zoos

Consciousness Admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 23:00:06 +0000

Source: Atlantablackstar.com In the late 1800s to well into the 1900s, Europeans created “human zoos” in cities like Paris; Hamburg, Germany; Antwerp, Belgium; Barcelona, Spain; London; Milan; Warsaw, Poland; St Louis; and New York City. These were popular human exhibits where whites went to watch Black people who were on display. The Black people were usually forced to live behind gates [...]

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9 Scientists and Inventors From Africa the World Should Know More About

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 17:28:12 +0000

Source: Alantablackstar.com Cheick Modibo Diarra Diarra is a Malian-born aerospace engineer who contributed to several NASA missions such as Mars Path Finder, the Galileo spacecraft and the Mars Observer. From April 2012 to December 2012, Diarra was the prime minister of Mali until a military coup forced him to resign Cheikh Anta Diop Diop was a [...]

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5 Eurocentric Myths About Black History, and Pictures That Disprove Them

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:45:10 +0000

Source: Atlantablackstar.com It Was Europeans Who Carried Civilization to ‘Primitive Africans’ Not only were African people the first people on the planet, but there is plenty of evidence to show that Black people built and maintained many of the world’s earliest and most magnificent civilizations. The Greeks are considered by many Euro-American scholars to be [...]

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10 Fearless Black Female Warriors Throughout History

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:06:08 +0000

Source: Atlantablackstar.com Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa (c. 1840–October 17, 1921) Yaa Asantewaa was the queen mother of the Edweso tribe of the Asante (Ashanti) in what is modern Ghana. She was an exceptionally brave fighter who, in March 1900, raised and led an army of thousands against the British colonial forces in Ghana and their [...]

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10 African Kingdoms No One Talks About But Should

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 15:28:09 +0000

Source: Atlantablackstar.com Bornu Empire (1380–1893) The Bornu Empire was a state of what is now northeastern Nigeria. It was a continuation of the great Kanem Empire founded centuries earlier by the Sayfawa Dynasty. In time, it would become even larger than Kanem, incorporating areas that are today parts of Chad, Niger and Cameroon. Sao [...]

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