GLOBAL CONNECTIONS

Leila Lopes- Why Is It So Hard To Accept The Universe Being Represented By An African Image?

Leila Lopes- Why Is It So Hard To Accept The Universe Being Represented By An African Image?

While global Africans all over the world cheered as the Miss Universe Pageant crowned their first Angolan Miss Universe,  fourth Black Miss Universe & second continental African Miss Universe, it seems there

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Sylvia Vanderpool Robinson -HIP-HOP ICON -RIP (March 6, 1936 – September 29, 2011)

Behind every great man & every great movement, there is a greater woman. Today we lost one of the greatest in the movement & culture enjoyed globally as Hip-Hop. Sylvia Vanderpool Robinson known to some…

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Occupy Wall Street -The American Fall

Occupy Wall Street -The American Fall

Occupy Wall Street is gearing up to be America’s Arab Spring, which I will call America’s Fall. Not only for the fact that it is getting its momentum in the the Fall season, but also…

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Obama Tells Blacks to ‘Stop Complainin’ and Fight”-Sunday News Headlines & The Aftermath- Heard It All Before!!

Obama Tells Blacks to ‘Stop Complainin’ and Fight”-Sunday News Headlines & The Aftermath- Heard It All Before!!

The president just had the same type of audience today as he had with the CBC to address issues of Latinos in America. I couldn’t help but to acknowledge how different the language & tone…

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Chale Wote – Ghana’s Street Arts Festival -Honoring The Past By Building The Future

Chale Wote – Ghana’s Street Arts Festival -Honoring The Past By Building The Future

Sometimes in life what makes my day is to hear of other people’s accomplishments. Today is one of those days. As Ghanaians & people all over the world who respect freedom & the greatness of…

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Africans in Europe- Running out of Luck

Africans in Europe- Running out of Luck

I have been watching the Al Jeezera documentary series “Surprising Europe” for awhile now & unfortunately I am far from surprised at most of the stories. What I am mostly surprised at is the…

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Tyler Perry -Named Forbe’s Highest Paid Man In Entertainment

Tyler Perry -Named Forbe’s Highest Paid Man In Entertainment

Yes Ya’ll  Forbes’s Magazine has named Tyler Perry the “Highest Paid Man in Entertainment” not just Black Man. Kudos to Tyler Perry! I saw a post of this with a comment that said “It

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Amber Rose In Ghana- Feeding The Children-REALLY?

Amber Rose In Ghana- Feeding The Children-REALLY?

It seems like so many media outlets picked up on Amber Rose’s not so discrete twitter photo opp. in the guise of a humanitarian venture in Ghana, as she quickly blasted a photo of…

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UHURA-Nichelle Nichols Speaks on The Legacy of the Image of Our Nation & Dr. King’s Trekky Love

UHURA-Nichelle Nichols Speaks on The Legacy of the Image of Our Nation & Dr. King’s Trekky Love

92Y put on an excellent panel with pioneer women in television. In this day & age when we are once again debating the images of our nations globally, the words of Nichelle Nichols

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A Look Into Global African History-Lena Horne On Like It Is With Gil Noble

A Look Into Global African History-Lena Horne On Like It Is With Gil Noble

Who better to teach you to believe in stormy weather than Glinda The Good Witch AKA Ms. Lena Horne. This past Sunday the weather was atrocious with the highest level of rain…

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