Thursday, January 31, 2013
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Monday, January 28, 2013
G abourey Sidibe-Our BLACK SKINNED BEAUTY will learn a lot ABOUT Mother AFRICA in her New Role!
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Actress Gabourey Sidibe Shines Light on Africa with 'AfroPop'
Actress Gabourey Sidibe is ready to take on one of her most important roles to date as host of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, a documentary series highlighting contemporary life, art and pop culture in the African Diaspora. The fifth season of AfroPoP, produced by Black Public Media, premiered Tuesday, January 22 on public television's WORLD channel, continuing on Tuesdays weekly through February 5, 2013.
Sidibe, who is best known for her Oscar-nominated performance in the film Precious, decided to accept the role of host as an opportunity to learn more about her roots. "I am part African—I am Senegalese. So I looked at it as a chance to get closer to where I am from," she says.
Furthermore, she is hoping that this season, which focuses on human and women's rights issues, will shatter myths about Africa. The challenge is not new for the Harlem- raised star, since as a young woman she had to combat stereotypes. "Growing up I was the African kid in my school. Every time I went back to Africa people thought I was sleeping in a bush and being chased by lions, but it wasn't that. So I hope people can see themselves in this series and I hope it highlights that everyone struggles and celebrates."
The universal human experience is also the core theme of visual artist Peter Wayne Lewis' exhibition Paintings from the Middle Earth Part IV at Skoto Gallery. Special guests on opening night included legendary painter Ademola Olugebefola and writer of the exhibition's e-catalog, Babacar M'Bow. The series of works presented visually unites themes of science, art and music as the artist's fluid lines draw parallels between these worlds to demonstrate their interconnectedness. "There are creationists who think science is an aberration and not part of the equation," Lewis says. "But it is only a description of the majesty of what you may say your God is, so it is all one in the same thing. Human beings, in our foibles, are trying to describe this gift we are given which is life." The exhibition is on-view until February 23, 2013.
Further exploring themes of life is the exhibition Elements in Red, on view at New World Stages and curated by Bernard Stote. Works by artists such as Harlem Arts Alliance member Leon Nicholas Kalas, Joyce Yamada and Math-You explore this primary color and expand its connotations beyond passion and violence. "When I did the call for art I noticed getting such a diverse application from artists from blood and war to love to landscape," says Stote. "It's amazing how vibrant that color is and how many different themes it can invoke in artists."
While this week offers opportunities to check out all of the aforementioned projects, you'll also want to support upcoming events including actress/comedian Kim Coles' one-woman show, Oh But Wait, There's More and Keith Sweat's appearance at MIST Harlem.
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The Harlem Arts Alliance is a not for profit arts service organization celebrating 10 years of service to a prestigious list of members such as the Apollo Theater, the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, Columbia University, Harlem Stage (Aaron Davis Hall) and over 850 more cultural/arts institutions and individuals. The weekly column, Harlem Arts Alliance Presents: On the "A" w/Souleo, covers the intersection of the arts, culture and entertainment scene in Harlem and beyond and is written by Souleo, founder and president of event/media content production company, Souleo Enterprises, LLC.

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Sunday, January 27, 2013
BLACK REPARATIONS- Brother John Cochran WANTED to Fight For it!
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Not many people know that after the O.J. Simpson case, Johnnie Cochran spent much of his time preparing for a case, collecting historical data, information, and studying cases to sue the U.S. government for Reparations for Africans in America.
"Johnnie Cochran, the famed O.J. Simpson attorney, has said on national television that he is now going to focus on his Reparations For Slavery lawsuit against the United States of America.Johnnie Cochran has assembled a ' Reparations Dream Team' of high powered trial lawyers to help him in this lawsuit, and liberal federal judges have already cost taxpayers in cities like Kansas City, Missouri and Yonkers, New York of billions of dollars to pay for their nonsensical rulings. A liberal federal judge could cost us taxpayers trillions of dollars more if Johnnie Cochran wins his Reparations lawsuit"
"Lawyers planning suit for African-American slave reparations (11/04/00)**
(Associated Press) — "A powerful group of civil rights and class-action lawyers who have won billions of dollars in court is preparing a lawsuit seeking reparations for American blacks descended from slaves.
"The project, called the Reparations Assessment Group, was confirmed by Harvard law professor Charles J. Ogletree and appears to be the most serious effort yet to get American blacks compensated for 244 years of legalized slavery. Lawsuits and legislation dating back to the mid-1800s have gone nowhere.
"We will be seeking more than just monetary compensation,'' Ogletree said. "We want a change in America. We want full recognition and a remedy of how slavery stigmatized, raped, murdered and exploited millions of Africans through no fault of their own.''
"Ogletree said the group, which includes famed attorney Johnnie Cochran, first met in July and will hold its fourth meeting in Washington D.C. later this month. "This country has never dealt with slavery. It is America's nightmare. A political solution would be the most sensible but I don't have a lot of faith that's going to happen. So we need to look aggressively at the legal alternative,'' Ogletree said.
Harvard's ultra-liberal Charles Ogletree indicated that the group's lawsuit will be directed against the federal government, state governments, corporations, and other institutions that allegedly have benefited from slave labor.
"Ogletree said the Reparation Assessment Group includes attorneys [Johnnie] Cochran and Alexander J. Pires Jr., who won a $1 billion settlement for black farmers who claimed discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Richard Scruggs, who won the $368.5 billion settlement for states against tobacco companies; Dennis C. Sweet III, who won a $400 million settlement in the "phen-fen'' diet drug case; and Willie E. Gary, who won a $500 million judgment against the Loewen Group Inc., the world's largest funeral home operators.
"Also in the group is Randall Robinson, president of the TransAfrica Forum, a think tank specializing in African, Caribbean and African-American issues. Robinson recently wrote the book "The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks,'' which argues for reparations."
Supporters of the reparations boondoggle cite recent, largely irrelevant, noncomparable cases where groups have been compensated in cash for discrimination by governments. For example, the Reparations Support Group cites the $20,000 award granted by the U.S. to the Japanese-Americans who were interred in concentration camps in the U.S. during World War II. Reparations advocates fail to acknowledge that the Japanese-Americans who received the $20,000 award were direct "still living" victims of the government's discrimination. This is not the case in the proposed "slavery reparations" debacle. Many generations -- and trillions of dollars in welfare payments and minority set-asides and racial preferences in the U.S. -- have already been awarded to "blacks" in this country.
Many citizens and politicians also argue that it isn't fair for taxpayers and corporations who never owned slaves to be burdened with possible multibillion dollar settlements. (AP, via FoxNews, based on the Associated Press story 11/04/00 by Paul Shepherd.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
BLACK PYRAMIDS IN NUBIA
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A walk among Sudan's Nubian pyramids
Does Sudan have more pyramigypt? In this series, we explore the splendours of the ancient Kingdom of Kush and the legacy it left behind in the land of the Black Pharaohs
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The Island of Meroe
Following the Nile as it flows north, some 200 kilometres from Khartoum, one comes close to the last capital of the Kushite Kingdom, one of ancient Africa's most prominent cultures. The site, known as the Island of Meroe, is no island at all, but rather an expanse of land that stretches between the Nile and the Atbara River. One of two UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Sudan, the archaeological sites of Meroe includes Meroe itself, Naga and Musawwarat es-Sufra.
Visitors to these isolated sites will find pyramids, temples, relics of residential buildings and irrigation infrastructure dating from as far back in time as the eighth century BC.
The Kingdom of Kush, which was heavily influenced by Ancient Egyptian culture, built its own pyramids, over two hundred of them. Whether at Meroe, El-Kurru or Nuri, the unique architecture of these pyramids is self-evident.
Unlike their Egyptian counterparts, the Nubian pyramids are much smaller in size (a base no broader than eight metres), very steep (an angle of seventy degrees) and rather elongated (no higher than thirty metres). Before delving into more details, we start with the first site.
Naga, at the Hall of Natakamani
A monumental pylon looms at a distance. As we came closer, we could decipher the bas-reliefs: the King Natakamani and his wife and co-regent Queen Amanitore appear grasping their enemies by the hair and beating them triumphantly.
This first-century temple is dedicated to a local god: Apedemak, the Kushite lion-headed warrior deity. On the sidewalls, Natakamani is accompanied by Apedemak, Horus, and the ram-headed Amun, while a curious image of Apedemak as a lion-headed snake emerging from a lotus flower never fails to grasp attention.
Back to the pylon, one can easily understand why many visitors like to think of this temple (and other Sudanese ones) as Pharaonic, while, in reality, they are only of Pharaonic inspiration.
These monuments are all Kushite, and a closer look would reveal artistic features typical of their culture: the Queen has clear African features, and the same goes to the broad-shouldered King with his round head and his necklace of large beads. Moreover, the Queen is depicted as the same size as the King, something symbolic of an equally important role.
A stone's throw from the temple is an interesting kiosk with a hybrid style that fuses Egyptian, Greek and Roman elements. No interpretation whatsoever is offered. Not far from here is yet another temple, a big temple dedicated to Amun, also commissioned by the King Natakamani.
In addition to the hypostyle plan and the colonnades, the Temple of Amun has its own avenue of rams, reminiscent of the one in Karnak, Luxor.
Musawwarat es-Sufra
The Great Enclosure, dating from the Napatan Period, is the name given to an architectural ensemble comprising three temples, all with courtyards, chapels and ramps. Why ramps? The answer comes from a funny-looking statue of an elephant.
Other reliefs of elephants here and in the nearby Lion Temple led many Egyptologists to conclude that the Great Enclosure served –among other things- as a place for training elephants for battles.
As for the Lion Temple, it is a compact and elegant structure dedicated to Apedemak by the King Arnekhamani. Dating from the third century BC, it is one of the earliest Merotic monuments, and its interior presents a fantasy world of elephants, lions, sphinxes and griffon-like creatures depicted on the walls and the columns. The temple in its current state is a reconstruction dating from 1969.
Pyramids
"Clearly visible from the Khartoum-Atbara highway, the pyramids of the Royal Cemetery of Meroe stand alone on a sandy ridge like a row of broken teeth," Paul Clammer, the Bradt Travel Guide – Sudan.
These teeth were broken (or better said, these pyramids were decapitated) by Western explorers and treasure-hunters in search for gold. Giuseppe Ferlini is probably the one name responsible for most of the damage.
Someone once said that the pyramids were archeologically significant but visually unimpressive. As we approached the Royal Pyramids of the Northern Cemetery (one of three pyramid fields of Meroe), we quickly came to realise that that was wrong.
The landscape in this pyramid field, dominated by the perfect harmony of the massive yellow sand dunes and the reddish hue of over thirty pyramids, is made even more serene by the absolute absence of tourists and touts tying to sell you a papyrus roll or a camel ride.
The site has a melancholic feel, and the clustering of so many pyramids in such compact a space only adds to the magic. The pyramids here have funerary chapels attached to their eastern side, something that cannot be seen in Egypt. Some thirty kings, eight queens and numerous princes were buried here, with the oldest burials dating to the third century BC, and continuing all the way to the fourth century AD.
Several construction styles are visible, and can be classified into types: stepped stone courses, smooth surfaces, moulded corners, hybrids; the examples are many. As we silently roamed between these pyramids, we came to wonder about the fate of Meroe, which came to an end with the rise of Axum in Ethiopia and the vandalism of the Bedouins, among other factors.
My travel companion and friend Ahmed Yehia, who has a graduate degree in cultural management, summed it up nicely: "Meroe is a place where you not only see the history in front of you…you also feel it. I couldn't have believed that such a place existed with all these pyramids around you…I'm sure people in Egypt don't know about this amount of pyramids in our sister country Sudan."
Our words were swallowed by the looming silence. A slight breeze carried the sand westwards, towards the direction of our next destination: Jebel Barkal and the land of the Black Pharaohs.
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Friday, January 18, 2013
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Greatness of a nation
is invariably determined not by those who govern her but by the use to
which the ordinary citizens of such a nation put their endowed talents
and skills. No nation can ever be great in the absence of her citizens.
As a matter of fact, nothing is called a nation without the people who
inhabit the landmass of the concerned area and deploy their skills for
the development of its resources. In a nutshell, it is the combined
greatness of individual citizens that often constitutes the greatness of
any nation. That is why all responsible governments encourage citizens
of their countries to strive for lofty heights in all field of human
endeavour. Ironically, however, while some nations become great because
of their citizens’ skills, others remain static because of their
governments’ inaction. Nigeria belongs to the latter. But despite the
continuous inaction of her government, this most populous African
country luckily continues to enjoy the benefit of international glory
often wrought by the personal efforts of her talented citizens.
Saturday, November 29, 2012 was a unique
historic day of glory for Nigeria at the United Nations Headquarters in
New York, where the 2012 global Annual Youth Conference was held. Two
special themes were chosen for the conference which is generally known
as Annual Youth Assembly (AYA). One of those themes is ‘Millennium
Development Goals’ (MDG). The other is ‘Sustainable Development Goals’
(SDG). The main objective of AYA is to encourage some focused world
youths to exhibit their intellectual prowess in proffering solutions to
contemporary and future global challenges. It is organised at the
instance of the ‘Friendship Ambassadors Foundation’ (FAF).
Present at the November 2012 conference
were some shakers and movers of global events from all parts of the
world including permanent representatives of the various countries at
the United Nations. They clustered the venue of the conference like a
galaxy of stars waiting to usher the world’s most ingenuous leaders of
tomorrow into today’s Hall of Fame with a chorus of KUDOS! The event was
beamed live to virtually all parts of the world through various TV
Cable Networks. The historic announcement of the winners which climaxed
the one week event was greeted with a thunderous applause and
overwhelming ovation. Out of the 700 hundred contestants from more than
70 countries of the world, three best winners emerged at the occasion.
One of them was from Africa. Another was from Asia while the third was
from South America. When the glorious moment of announcing the very best
of the three finalists came, a grave but anxious silence descended on
the hall. This was followed by a lone baritone voice that announced
thus: “…..And the winner is RAHMAH ADERINOYE FROM NIGERIA!!!!! The
audience roared into an unprecedented ecstasy of jubilation hugging and
shaking hands with one another just as the chanting of CONGRATULATIONS
rented the air for several minutes with songs of joy. Rahmah had beaten
the two other finalists from China and Haiti to the second and third
positions respectively. It was indeed, a rare moment of glory for a
comatose country like Nigeria dangling ceaselessly like a pendulum with a
noose on the altar of dysfunction. History was made once again by a
Nigerian for Nigeria but without an input from the latter. An
unfortunate incident at that moment, however, was the conspicuous
absence of any official from Nigeria. While all other participants were
officially accompanied and supported by the representatives of their
countries, as usual, no notable Nigerian official representative was
there. Unlike what obtains in focused countries, Nigeria does not attach
any importance to assisting or supporting her own citizens in making
any glory of that sort. As a country, she prefers to proclaim any
individual who, out of personal effort, makes glory as her worthy
citizen. And that preference was demonstrated again at the 2012 AYA
conference. That Nigeria was not officially represented on such a
glorious occasion cannot be a surprise to anybody who knows this country
very well. After all, a similar incident occurred in March 1987 when a
onetime Grand Qadi of Northern Nigeria, the late Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud
Gumi won the prestigious King Faisal Award just six months after Wole
Soyinka won Nobel Laurel in September 1986. And while the foreign press
was celebrating the honour days and nights, the same Federal Government
which sent a powerful delegation to accompany Wole Soyinka to Stockholm
(in Sweden) six months earlier remained nonchalant. It took yours
sincerely to write on the matter severally (then in The Concord)
pointing out the government’s hypocrisy and religious bias before
something could be done at the federal level. And by the time the then
General Ibrahim Babangida-led government decided half-heartedly to
congratulate Sheikh Gumi and accept to play a role, all arrangements had
been privately completed by the late Bashorun MKO Abiola who
volunteered to bear the entire cost.
It was he (Abiola) who invited about 200
eminent Nigerians to form a delegation which was to accompany Sheikh
Gumi to Riyadh, (the Saudi Arabian capital) where the award was to be
given. He also provided their travelling tickets and Basic Travelling
Allowance (BTA) even as he chartered the Jumbo Jet that conveyed them.
The then government only stepped in belatedly following my series of
articles and that was on the suspicion that Bashorun Abiola might use
the event to score a political point. Thus, if we have a government in
place today which repeated such episode by choosing to be indifferent to
the great honour won for Nigeria by Rahmah; it should not be a
surprise. The sadistic tradition has long been established. Thank God,
however, that the name of this brilliant future leader did not come up
at that level in connection with cocaine pushing or human trafficking
which would have automatically attracted the attention of our government
and Nigerian Press. The 1987 episode is recalled here because yours
sincerely was on the two mentioned (Stockholm and Riyal) delegations.
Who is Rahmah Aderinoye?
The common question on the lips of most
people who witnessed the 2012 MDG event and which may also become the
main question from many readers of this column is the one above. Who is
Rahmah Aderinoye? And the answer to that question is not far-fetched.
Rahmah Adebodun Aderinoye is a tender female University student with the
heart of a brave male. She is the fifth and last child of her parents
but also the fourth daughter. Her natural visage betrays her
intellectual mien. In appearance, she looks half her father and half her
mother an indication that she cuts a chip of each of the two parents.
Rahmah Aderinoye, a Nigerian student of Biology at the University of
Texas (USA), is vigorously proving to be a sucker rather than a bud in
her family tree. And like any potent sucker, her burning desire is to
outgrow the stem and foliages of that consanguine tree without minding
any local tradition accorded her gender. Her pedigree is strong, no
doubt, but her towering surge is independent of that pedigree as she
charts her course ahead with little expectation of any assistance from
any particular individual. She has caught a niche for herself in a world
where even older adults refuse to be weaned from their parental ladle.
Born to Professor Rasheed and Hajia Biqis Aderinoye in Ibadan about 23
years ago and christened Rahmah (meaning Blessing) this courageous young
woman is truly becoming a universal blessing not only to her parents or
her country but also to African continent as well as the global Muslim
Ummah. Already, without prompting, she has chosen to be an Ambassador
Plenipotentiary for her fatherland as she flies the latter’s
green-white-green flag loftily and admirably at the international level
without asking the forbidden question of ‘what can my country do for
me?. By all means, Rahmah epitomises the new dream generation with a
life ambition to put Nigeria on the special map of success story. Now a
final year biology student at the University of Texas, Arlington, USA,
Rahmah had her elementary education at the University of Ibadan Staff
School and her secondary education at the International School, UI,
Ibadan before proceeding to South Carolina University from where she
moved to the University of Texas on scholarship.
What qualified her for this laurel?
Motivated by a burning desire to give a
helping hand to fellow Nigerians in alleviating the crushing poverty and
squalor in the land, Rahmah established a Non-Governmental Organisation
(NGO) named ‘Youth for Intellectual Interaction Initiative (YIII) with
more than 20 volunteers in Nigeria, United Kingdom and the US. It was
this NGO that she used in applying for participation in the 2012 MDG
project that fetched her the glorious laurel that now makes her a global
star. And with that laurel she has automatically become a ‘Fellow of
(UN) Resolution’. Already, she has been commissioned by UNICEF to
develop and work on a concept to empower the vulnerable youths in Africa
an assignment which she sees as a veritable opportunity to further
propel the African youths into continental development through a
deserving renaissance. Thus, she is a UNICEF global Ambassador.
Shortly before the announcement of the
results of the competition, Rahmah called her father on phone to inform
him of her nervousness having been overwhelmed by the galaxy of other
contestants. But in response, her father, an experienced professor of
education, told her to calm down saying: “I won’t be surprised if you
win”. And when the event was over, she made the following confession:
‘So, when my name was announced, I became frightened and was shaking.
Three winners emerged at the end of the day from three continents (Asia,
Africa and South America) and these were a Nigerian, a Chinese and a
Haitian. I was proudly thrilled to represent Nigeria at the Youth
Assembly at the UN. For me, participating in that Social Challenge
Venture was pretty exciting but it involved a lot of work. I had to
submit some drafts before presenting my project in front of over 700
delegates from the world and face the judges and the crowd. I was
really, really nervous…” Throwing light on the real nature of the
competition, she said: “At the annual youth assembly, Resolution Project
looks at youthful students in colleges, asks them to present a problem
peculiar to their localities and suggest possible solutions to such a
problem. If the proposal is accepted, the project then gives both
mentoring and financial assistance to help them bring about the solution
they proposed.” She continued: “I was supposed to pick a problem
staring Nigerians in the face and propose a solution to it. So the
problem I chose was poverty which is the number one set goal of the
Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. I proposed
empowerment through skills acquisition. This means that I will basically
be empowering people in some vocations thereby making them
self-sufficient and ultimately working towards the set goals of the UN.
Thus, the solution I proposed was empowerment through skills
acquisition.”
Narrating her planned approach to
tackling poverty especially in Africa, Rahmah said: “The best approach
to tackling poverty as far as I am concerned is to train people in some
vocations, stressing that “what we will be doing is training people in
some vocations such as baking, bead making, farming, tailoring and some
couple of others but it’s going to be one vocation at a time. Now, after
these people are trained, we will provide them with basic materials
they need to start up and that way, they can start making money for
themselves.” Asked to state specifically what she will now be doing as a
Fellow of (UN) Resolution and UNICEF Ambassador the 23 year old
eloquent student of Biology said: “I presently volunteer with UNICEF USA
to raise funds and create awareness for various projects. Recently, for
instance, I led a number of fellow youths in the US to raise funds for
the Children of Syria who are being subjected to all sorts of abuse and
insecurity of life. We were trying to get more relief materials for them
in their various refugee camps. And now, I am working on what is called
Zero Project. It is estimated that about 19,000 children die daily of
preventable causes and this figure comes from just five countries in the
world. Sadly, Nigeria happens to be one of them. “At UNICEF, USA, we
believe that number can be reduced to ZERO. For this reason we raise
funds to be invested in the affected countries and we shall continue to
do so until we get to ZERO level. As for her future plans this is what
Rahmah has to say: I want to complete my undergraduate studies at the
end of the current academic session and start post graduate studies.
Also, I am planning to go ahead with my project in Nigeria if only as a
fulfillment of my dream of bringing zero project to my country alongside
my proposed solution at the United Nations. So I need every Nigerian to
team up with me and my teammates in this initiative.”
When ‘THE MESSAGE’ asked Rahmah’s father
to comment on his daughter’s performance he simply said “I am highly
impressed Alhamdu Lillah”. Professor Aderinoye, a Professor of Education
at the University of Ibadan who is currently the Deputy Executive
Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) however
explained that he earlier entertained fear about the project because his
daughter started it when her examination was approaching. But she
assured him that she would cope.
Perhaps if Osun, the ‘State of
Integrity’ had not been Rahmah’s indigenous state, nothing would have
been heard about her great achievement from any government circle in
Nigeria. It was the State of Osun alone that officially invited her for
the establishment of a branch of her NGO in that state and provided an
office for it. The state government, represented by the Commissioner for
Youths and Women Affairs, Mrs. Folake Adegboyega and the Senior Special
Adviser to the Governor on Youth and Women Empowerment, Mr. Abdullah
Binuyo also sponsored the launching of the NGO. And such is quite in
line with Osun State’s policy of youth empowerment.
Lesson to learn
For parents who discriminate in the
training of their children, this is a lesson. Rahmah is the fifth and
last child of her parents. Only one of those children is a male. And all
of them are doing as fantastically well in their respective callings as
the only male child among them. What else does any sensible person want
in a child? More than 90 per cent of Nigerian problems are currently
caused by male children. And on the contrary, it is female children who
take care of their parents better in old age. Besides, isn’t it
ingratitude to Allah on the part of those who think parochially that
male children are better than female children? That is a food for
thought. We pray the Almighty Allah to prolong and protect the life of
Rahmah Aderinoye with further guidance and blessings even as we implore
Allah to give our Ummah many more of her type. Amin.
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Saturday, January 05, 2013
BLACK MEN SUPREME! -Fashion KINGS of the Universe!
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For many, style is much deeper than articles of clothing; it's a statement of identity. Black men have a unique relationship with fashion, one that can be traced all the way back to the 17th and 18th centuries.
Monica L. Miller, the author of Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, spoke with Tell Me More's Michel Martin about the past, present and future of black men's fashion.
Miller, an associate professor of English at Barnard College, explains that African-American men have used style as a way to challenge stereotypes about who they are. "Sometimes the well-dressed black man coming down the street is asking you to look and think."
Victor Holliday, associate producer of on-air fundraising at NPR and one of the resident kings of style, tells Martin that he learned about the importance of fashion at an early age. "When I was 5 years old, I knew exactly how I was going to look," he says. "And that was the year I got my first trench coat and my top hat."
Holliday's style icon is his father, who taught him that the main object of dressing up is winning respect. "Because as you present yourself seriously, people tend to take you seriously."
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BLACK MEN SUPREME! -Fashion KINGS of the Universe!
by NPR Staff
December 31, 201211:48 AM
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For many, style is much deeper than articles of clothing; it's a statement of identity. Black men have a unique relationship with fashion, one that can be traced all the way back to the 17th and 18th centuries.
Monica L. Miller, the author of Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, spoke with Tell Me More's Michel Martin about the past, present and future of black men's fashion.
Miller, an associate professor of English at Barnard College, explains that African-American men have used style as a way to challenge stereotypes about who they are. "Sometimes the well-dressed black man coming down the street is asking you to look and think."
Victor Holliday, associate producer of on-air fundraising at NPR and one of the resident kings of style, tells Martin that he learned about the importance of fashion at an early age. "When I was 5 years old, I knew exactly how I was going to look," he says. "And that was the year I got my first trench coat and my top hat."
Holliday's style icon is his father, who taught him that the main object of dressing up is winning respect. "Because as you present yourself seriously, people tend to take you seriously."
Holliday is one of the men featured in Tell Me More's Kings of Style slideshow.
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OBAMA! -OUR BLACK PRESIDENT HAS MADE HISTORY with his popular Vote TOTALS!
The 2012 presidential election has obviously come and gone, but before we move on entirely, there's a little tidbit of statistical trivia that struck me as interesting -- and chart worthy.
Bloomberg reports today that, thanks to some provisional ballots that have now been counted in New York City, President Obama's popular-vote total is up to 51.06%. That wouldn't be especially interesting, were it not for the fact that Obama is the first presidential candidate since Dwight Eisenhower to top 51% twice.

In fact, in American history, this is a feat that's only been pulled off by six presidents: Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, William McKinley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and now, Barack Obama.
In case you're wondering if Reagan made the cut, he came close, but ended up with 50.7% in 1980. Plenty of other candidates might have had a better shot at this, were it not for third-party candidates.
Also, though Obama's popular-vote win on election night seemed quite narrow, it's now grown to about four percentage points (and roughly 5 million votes), which is a pretty comfortable margin of victory.
We can debate the utility and value of electoral "mandates," but if they mean anything, Obama has earned enough public backing to have Congress take his agenda seriously.
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Friday, January 04, 2013
Our BLack Skinned Beauty Gabourey Will Host AFRO-POP!
Jan 03 | by _YBF

Actress Gabourey Sidibe has landed a new gig as the host of Public Television's "AfroPoP". Get the details on her new job inside and read Fantasia's latest rant about people who judge her....
On January 22, Yelling to the Sky actress Gabourey Sidibe will make her debut as the host of Public Television's AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, an innovative documentary series highlighting contemporary life, art and pop culture in the African Diaspora.
Produced by Black Public Media, the show will premiere on the WORLD Channel at 7:00pm ET on Tuesday, January 22 and continue on Tuesdays weekly through February 5, 2013.
Gabourey spoke about "AfroPoP", which uses independent films to bring awareness to human and women's rights struggles saying,
"This season of AfroPoP helps give voice to those who truly need to be heard. I'm happy to help bring these stories to the American public and raise awareness of issues of vital concern to women and men in Africa as well as all who care about human rights."
And since she's a star product of indie films like Precious, this new role suits her.
Leslie Fields-Cruz, Black Public Media Vice President and Director of Programming, explained Gabby's hiring saying,
"Gabourey's energetic spirit and connection to the youth culture made her the perfect choice to host the series this season and we are happy to have her as such an integral part of AfroPoP."
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