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Luther Vandross – Biography

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 18:07:03 +0000

Source: http://www.luthervandross.com/ In the world of contemporary music, there are just a handful of superstars whose first name alone brings instant recognition. Check Aretha, Whitney, Mariah, Diana and Dionne. But when it comes to male vocalists, the list is far shorter. One name towers above the rest in any discussion of black male singers whose impact [...]

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Sipho Gumede – Biography

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 14:03:39 +0000

Source: www.sahistory.org.za Synopsis: South African jazz bass guitarist Sipho Gumede was born in Cato Manor, a then mainly Indian area in Durban. From a young age he showed interest in music, playing on a homemade guitar. He was exposed to all kinds of music and furthered his guitar talent on a borrowed instrument instead of [...]

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Busi Mhlongo – Biography

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 16:18:25 +0000

Source: www.sahistory.org.za For her excellent contribution to music and putting South Africa on the international music map with her prolific musical compositions, Mhlongo was awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver Busisiwe Victoria Mhlongo, popularly known as Busi Mhlongo, was born in 1947 at Inanda, near Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. She began her singing career in [...]

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Nina Simone – Biography

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 18:57:24 +0000

Source: www.ninasimone.com She was one of the most extraordinary artists of the twentieth century, an icon of American music. She was the consummate musical storyteller, a griot as she would come to learn, who used her remarkable talent to create a legacy of liberation, empowerment, passion, and love through a magnificent body of works. She earned [...]

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Ivan Van Sertima and Runoko Rashidi: The Early Years

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:20:04 +0000

originally posted on AtlantaBlackStar.com I first met Ivan Van Sertima in either late 1980 or 1981. I went to a lecture that he gave in a classroom at UCLA. An evening or so later, I attended a reception in his honor at the residence of Legrand H. Clegg II, noted authority of African and American history [...]

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Life and Legacy of Joel Augustus Rogers: Chronicler of a Glorious African Past

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:11:05 +0000

Originally posted on AtlantaBlackStar.com This work is dedicated to Dr. John Henrik Clarke. Critical Assessments of Joel Augustus Rogers Although Joel Augustus Rogers was largely self-trained, some of the most distinguished scholars of the 20th century have acknowledged our debt to him. Dr. William E.B. DuBois (1868-1963), perhaps the greatest scholar in American history, wrote [...]

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A Hundred Years of Marcus Garvey

Runoko Rashidi — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:01:21 +0000

Source: Atlantablackstar.com For me and many others, Marcus Garvey qualifies as the greatest Black man of the past hundred years. Of course, there are many, many others. There is Kwame Nkrumah and Haile Selassie I and Patrice Lumumba and Nelson Mandela from Africa. And Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, the great hero of the Dalits of India, [...]

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Joseph Bologne: The Chevalier de Saint-Georges of France

Runoko Rashidi — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:51:21 +0000

originally posted on AtlantaBlackStar.com BY RUNOKO RASHIDI* The history of African people is so vast yet so spectacular, that one hardly knows where to begin. And this is not just the history of nations and kingdoms and communities, but of outstanding individuals—of great men and women. One of the most extraordinary of these individuals comes [...]

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Thomas Sankara – Biography

Consciousness Admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 13:15:39 +0000

Source: www.africasuccess.org Thomas Sankara – Born on December 21, 1949, in Upper Volta, formerly Burkina Faso; died Oct 15,1987 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Captain Thomas Sankara was the leader of the Burkinabe Revolution. In the former Upper Volta known today as Burkina Faso, a group of men decided to launch a revolution that would enable [...]

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Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima

Khaya Sibeko — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:09:09 +0000

From: http://wikipedia.org/ Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima (26 January 1935 – 25 May 2009) was a British historian, linguist and anthropologist at Rutgers University in the United States. He was noted for his controversial Afrocentric theory of pre-Columbian contact between Africa and the Americas. Early life He was born in Kitty Village, Guyana, when Guyana was [...]

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