Featured Blog Posts – June 2016 Archive (4)

Dear all,

Slide presentation:  Iftar At Al Farooq Masjid Ramadan 1437 A.H.

On behalf of our Chairman John Eaves and Al Farooq Masjid Board Chairman Dr. Tomeh, we thank you for your participation at Al Farooq Masjid continuing to surround multicultural understanding and we were able to further identify areas that…

At Sunday night’s BET Awards, Jesse Williams delivered one of the wokest award acceptance speeches in

recent memory.

That’s not to say that his speech was entirely novel. A lot of the things Williams said as he accepted BET’s humanitarian award have been said before - by black political thinkers like Martin Luther King Jr., by modern-day activists and artists, and…

I am a revolutionary black female nationalist: A womanist analysis of Fulani

Sunni Ali's role as a New African citizen and Minister of Information in the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Africa

by Gaines, Rondee, Ph.D., GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2013, 261 pages; 3560080

Abstract:

Comrade  Lumumba…

The First Juneteenth

More pictures:  Juneteenth 2016 Morris Brown College...

In February of 1861, a special convention in Texas—a state that supported slavery—voted to secede from the United States and become the 7th member of the newly formed Confederate States of America.

 For the next four years, the nation was engaged in a civil war that cost…