african diaspora

http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=356&Itemid=33 A Great Loss: The Passing of Dr. Asa Grant Hilliard III (1933-2007) by BAR contributing editor Donald H. Smith, Ph.D Wednesday, 12 September 2007 Video tribute to...

The Effect of Music Hypnosis! By Pearl Jr. 9/11 is an important day in the lives of many Americans. This year marks the sixth anniversary of the largest enemy attack on U.S. soil--over 3000 people lost their lives, the twin towers fell to the ground,...

Details emerge in W. Va. torture case 12 September 2007 By JOHN RABY, AP BIG CREEK, W.Va. - Inside a shed on a remote hillside of this coalfield community, authorities say a young black woman was tortured for days, sexually assaulted, beaten and forced...

Fundraising Appeal Letter from PHRF Please spread far and wide! September 24, 2007 Friends: Please share this letter with your friends, family and co-workers, so, like you, they will not forget the importance of supporting the people of New Orleans and...

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=75961 Venezuelan children to be taught that Christopher Columbus was not a hero Friday, September 21, 2007 Jeremy McDermott The Daily Telegraph (Jeremy McDermott): Children in Venezuela are to be taught that Christopher...

http://www.jbhe.com/latest/index.html How the University of Brasilia Determines Who Is Black The University of Brasilia in the capital city of Brazil is one of that country’s elite institutions of higher learning. In the past, Afro-Brazilians made up...

Will a new Africentric curriculum improve academic achievement? By: Amanda Robinson Photo by: Kennon Vaughan AT BROOKVIEW MIDDLE School, black students will finally see themselves represented in the textbooksthis January.Brookview is located in the heart...

How Racism in America is Kept Alive First of all, Blacks are not the initiators of racism and can never be attributed the label of reverse racist because Blacks are the victims of racism, period. Racism is engrained in the psyche of whites from before...

The State of Black Economics 09/01/07 by Matthew Lynch The state black entrepreneurship has progressed significantly in the past decade, the inner cities in which most of these businesses (supermarket chains, check cashing stores, retailers, banks, fast-food...

Venezuela Converts Jail into University Venezuelanalysis.com By: Kiraz Janicke Caracas September 1, 2007 Venezuelan authorities announced on Thursday to a community assembly in the old penitentiary El Junquito in Catia—a sprawling working class suburb...