2010 Marks the 50th anniversary of Independence in 17 African nations, setting the stage for Africa as a continent to look deep within our history, to wake up & to make this decade Africa’s decade of fulfilling the change that was to come with independence. There was something in the air in 1960, a leap [...]

As Black history month is nearing its close in the shortest month of the year, I found myself engulfed in debates & really looking at Black history- past & present from Africa to the Diaspora. I went to a film screening of Fangafrika: The Voice of the Voiceless, which is a look at African underground [...]

It seems the Democratic party is in full spiral, not knowing left from right , public option from insurance company control, wall street bailouts from main street job creations, and fighting from conceding & throwing in the towel.
It seems the democrats are not ready, willing or able to take on the fight to [...]

By now everyone across the globe must have heard the name Fela Anikulapo Kuti, AKA Fela, AKA Black President. If you have not then maybe you are too young or just stuck under a rock. There is a new revival of Fela’s music, his words, his teachings & his revolutionary spirit springing up all around [...]

For Anyone who knows anything about human history -it has been made scientifically evident that humanity started in Africa; therefore at the root of all global culture is Africa. There is a new global push toward Africa because humanity has lost its way & is returning back to basics, back to finding oneself , back [...]

When Africans say “Africa is the future”, it is not just words & fantasy, rather a destiny manifested thru the will and determination of everyday people determined to seek opportunity where government & leaders have failed.  From films, to music,to fashion, to finance, to architecture, to picking up the pieces from war & giving hope [...]

I went to a workshop preview of the documentary, The Prep School Negro on Monday. This was a documentary that directly spoke to me as a fellow prep school Negro & my own prep school experience, along with the experience of battling who you are as a Negro & the so called “non traditional [...]

What the hell is wrong with us as a nation & as humans. Poor, Poor Roman Polanski whose own wife was murdered by Charles Manson’s cult followers & parents murdered in a concentration camp in Auschwitz, yet he feels he should be above the law for his crimes while his idiotic. morally bankrupt hollywood [...]

Ben Selkow
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