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ROOTS: Alexander Murray Palmer Haley and Other February 10 Black History Making Moments

ROOTS: Alexander Murray Palmer Haley and Other February 10 Black History Making Moments

 ”In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a »

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Conspiring to Inspire : 44th NAACP Image Awards Makes History in Highest Viewership: Remembering Rosa Parks

Conspiring to Inspire : 44th NAACP Image Awards Makes History in Highest Viewership: Remembering Rosa Parks

The first day of Black History Month opened with the 44th NAACP Image Awards shedding a light on Black America’s history: past, present and future. While celebrating Black history, the award show brought about by the organization formed in 1909 to showcase the best of »

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Global Fusion Playlist @ The Movies :HiLife: Ghana’s Musical Soul By Kwesi Owusu

Global Fusion Playlist @ The Movies :HiLife: Ghana’s Musical Soul By Kwesi Owusu

As we celebrate the 6th day of Kwanzaa Kuumba: Creativity and enter a new year; In 2013 may Global Africa continue our creativity and to honor our ancestors and legacy with beautifully curated and told stories in all forms of art- from film, to »

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Lilakoi Moon AKA Lisa Bonet and her Pirate Revolution: 2013 Re-Claiming

Lilakoi Moon AKA Lisa Bonet and her Pirate Revolution: 2013 Re-Claiming

It was great and refreshing to see Denice Huxtable AKA Lisa Bonet AKA Lilakoi Moon’s FB page on December 23rd where she announced : “I’m writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we’re going to take over, because it’s really disgusting »

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Global African Features: Kwaku Ananse: Ghanaian Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu Brings African Folklore Back to Life for a New Generation

Global African Features: Kwaku Ananse: Ghanaian Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu  Brings African Folklore Back to Life for a New Generation

As the likes of multinational brands like Disney, Nickelodeon and others enter the African market to bring western cartoons and stories to Africans, a new crop of African filmmakers have taken it upon themselves to bring back authentic African stories and folklore to offset »

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Curating in Africa Symposium At Tate Modern: The Future of African Art

Curating in Africa Symposium At Tate Modern: The Future of African Art

I was glad to have stumbled upon this much needed dialogue in the global fusion of our shared art and spaces. I only really started following the works of the famous Tate in Great Britain, when they invited iconic Ghanaina photographer James Barnor to be »

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Nester (Messenger) Robert Marley’s Mum- Cedella Booker

Nester (Messenger) Robert Marley’s Mum- Cedella Booker

As we honor the messenger on the 31st anniversary of his transition from earth to home going- leaving the world to carry on the teachings of love and freedom, and the love in freedom- I thought I should pay tribute in profile to Nestor Robert »

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GlobalFusionPlaylist: @The Movies -Africans In The Diaspora Stories- Restless City, African Booty Scratcher, Bronx Princess and Prince of Broadway

GlobalFusionPlaylist: @The Movies -Africans In The Diaspora Stories- Restless City, African Booty Scratcher, Bronx Princess and Prince of Broadway

I was brought to think about my life as an African in the Diaspora a few weeks ago after I had an unvited engagement of words and looks with a Black American woman in a store, much like the restaurant incident scene in the African »

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Celebrating The Future -Ghana @ 55-Daughters of Yaa Asantewaa Rising! Ones To Watch in 2012

Celebrating The Future -Ghana @ 55-Daughters of Yaa Asantewaa Rising! Ones To Watch in 2012

In honor of Ghana’s 55th year of Independence and women’s history month we honor and celebrate the daughters of Yaa Asentwaa- the image makers and global African powerhouses representing the future of the Black Star Nation of Ghana thru their powerfully creative endeavorers. March 6, »

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The Oscar Narrative & The Lack of Black Responsibility

The Oscar Narrative & The Lack of Black Responsibility

It seems every single year since I have been old enough to be interested in watching the Oscars, I have heard the same narrative from Black America talking about lack of inclusion and how Hollywood has no respect for Black stories  and  Black actors, »

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