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Posted by Chauncey DeVega at 12:50 am January 22, 2014

Uncomfortable Historical Truths: On White Privilege and the Movie 12 Years a Slave

[Photo Credit: screenshot   This is an image of a 19th century wood engraving called "Slaves in Brazil: The Terrible Torture of a Slave", from 'Journal des Voyages'. It depicts a black slave being boiled alive above a huge cauldron].

The film 12 Years a Slave was a Disney version of the Maafa and the crimes against humanity…

Sister Souljah (born Lisa Williamson, 1964) is an American hip hop-generation author, activist, recording artist, and

film producer. She gained prominence for …

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THE TUNNEL PEOPLE THAT LIVE UNDER THE STREETS

Did you know that there are thousands upon thousands of homeless people that are living underground beneath the streets of major U.S. cities? 

It is happening frpm Las Vegas, to New York City, to  Kansas City, and elsewhere.  As the economy crumbles, poverty in the United States is absolutely exploding and so is homelessness. 

In addition to the thousands of "tunnel people" living under the streets of America, there are also…

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/22/14) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today applauded a ruling by a federal judge in Virginia that said placement on the government's no-fly list "transforms a person into a second class citizen, or worse."…

In 2011, Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson brought a forgotten piece of American history vividly to life with "The

Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975." The compelling documentary unearthed largely unseen footage shot by Swedish journalists of the era, and shined a new light on the potent Black Power movement of the time. For his next effort, Olsson is once again digging into the…

Funeral Service For Amiri Baraka In Newark N.J. …

Police Beat Elderly Deaf Man For ‘Refusing Orders’ 

“You can’t yell at him from behind his car and get a response”

Mikael Thalen Infowars.com January 14, 2014

An elderly deaf Oklahoma…

Amiri Baraka, one of the most influential African American writers of his generation, who courted controversy as a poet

By Matt Schudel

, playwright and provocateur and who was a primary intellectual architect of the Black…

“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown

people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple huma…

Too young to wed: child ‘brides’ in Egypt rented for summer



Friday, 16 August 2013







In many societies, marriage is a celebrated institution and a promise of life-long fidelity between two adults; in some areas of the world, such as Egypt, the reality is very different for some individuals.



In el-Hawamdia, an agricultural town 20 kilometers south of Cairo, Egyptian…

  by Chauncey DeVega

 January 9, 2014

8,000 comments later, most of them racist screeds too low and disgusting for even…

The armed Mau Mau uprising against British colonialism was by this time on its last legs militarily, having been ground

down by years of murderous anti-insurgent operations and pleasantries like mass…

The Arab scholar Said Al-Andalusi who lived in the 11th century was
an admirer of medieval Indian mathematics and civilization.
He stated: "India is the first nation to have cultivated the sciences,
and although black, Allah ranked them above many white and
brown people. It is a powerful, wealthy and populous nation known
for the wisdom of its people and their abilities in all branches
of knowledge."

A worst case scenario is unfolding in Syria, and Palestinian refugees, particularly in the Yarmouk refugee camp, are

paying a heavy price for Syria’s cruelest war. They are starving, although there can be no justification, nor logistical explanation for why they are dying from hunger.

Spokesman…

LONDON - Retired US Air Force General Tom McInerney, who served as both assistant vice chief of staff and

Retired US Air Force General confirms presence of at least 10 or 15 Muslim Brotherhood members inside US government.

commander in chief of US Air Forces Europe, confirmed on a radio programme the presence of the…

[Ibrahim Hooper is national communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the

By:  Ibrahim Hooper 

nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization. He may be contacted at ihooper@cair.com or 202-744-7726.]

One of the bigoted themes often promoted by the growing cottage industry of…