Today is a glorious day of remembrance in Global Black History, celebrating the lives of those who showed us how to live with our heads high as kings & queens. Today we celebrate drum majors that changed the world perspective of the greatness of our Global Blackness. Today we celeberate the birth of Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; January 17, 1942) & First Lady of the United States of America Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964). Today we celebrate the life, lessons, martyrdom, death, greatness & honor of two of the greatest Global Pan-African leaders of all time: Patrice Émery Lumumba (2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Many may have heard of the infamous “Rumble in the Jungle” between Muhammad Ali & George Foreman which culminated into showing global Africans about a time “When We Were Kings“, one of the first filmed pilgrimages in the spirit of Sankofa to reunite the ancestors of enslaved Africans back to the homeland & continent that they were taken from, hosted by a nation then called Zaire AKA Congo which had one of the most prolific, intelligent, visionary freedom fighters of global Africans, a man we call Patrice Lumumba. Global Africans should mark this day 2011 on their calender & remember that all who we celebrate today were about service, upliftment, freedom, equality & showcasing a type of class & pride in global Black power that is unbossed & unbought!
“Between 1961 and 1973, six African independence leaders were assassinated by their ex-colonial rulers, including Patrice Lumumba of Congo, who was killed 50 years ago today“….READ MORE
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali
“And in my own life, in my own small way, I’ve tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That’s why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us – no matter what our age or background or walk of life – each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation..One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. .”-Michelle Obama
“Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective…We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools” Martin Luther King Jr.
“…Our wounds are too fresh and too painful still for us to drive them from our memory. We have known harassing work, exacted in exchange for salaries which did not permit us to eat enough to drive away hunger, or to clothe ourselves, or to house ourselves decently, or to raise our children as creatures dear to us…Dead, living, free, or in prison on the orders of the colonialists, it is not I who counts. It is the Congo, it is our people for whom independence has been transformed into a cage where we are regarded from the outside… History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that Brussels, Paris, Washington, or the United Nations will teach, but that which they will teach in the countries emancipated from colonialism and its puppets… a history of glory and dignity.” Patrice Émery Lumumba
“Brussels, Belgium – Hundreds of nationals from DR Congo on Sunday attended a march in Brussels to demand the trial of the murderers of the country’s prime minister Patrice Lumumba, who was killed on 17 January 1961. The march was held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Lumumba, who was Prime Minister of the first government following the country’s independence on 30 June 1960…”READ MORE