Survey: Blacks in France Say They Face Racial Discrimination
More than half of blacks living in France say they face racial discrimination, according to the first-ever survey on the country’s black population. The findings are troubling for a country that has long prided itself on its human rights record, and its ostensibly color-blind integration model. According to a survey conducted by the TNS-Sofres polling …
Venus crushes her oppponent
Crushing first serves, casting ominous glances across the net and showing not the slightest hint of vulnerability. Serena is back! At least she made everyone say her name as she won her third Austrailian Open and eighth Grand Slam by beating her opponent Sharapova in a mere 63 minutes. Maybe people will stop criticising her …
Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
Publisher Comments: This highly original book opens up the almost entirely neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and anthropology, it investigates a whole range of black African experience and representation across Renaissance Europe, from various types of slavery to black musicians and dancers, …
Guillaume Guillon Lethiere – Black French painter
In 1980, an unsigned painting acquired by the Rhode Island School of Design a few years earlier, was identified as the work of the once-popular French artist, Guillaume Guillon Lethiere who was born in 1760. Although such attributions are rarely newsworthy, what should have made this one more interesting to us as Americans than even …
Black Russian Nobility part 2
On his father’ side Peter Ustinov is a member of the old Russian nobility. But on his mother’s side, he is a member of the Ethiopian Royal Family. The origin of this interracial line was the marriage of his great grandfather, a Swiss military engineer, with the daughter of the Emperor Theodore II. Forbidden to …
Black Russian Nobility – Alexander Pushkin
Although the vast majority of African Americans are unfamiliar with Pushkin’s monumental works, most students of literature are at least aware of his “Blackamoor of Peter the Great,” an unfinished romance which relates the biographical data of the poet’s great-grandfather, Ibrahim Petrovitch Gannibal his black great-grandfather. Some early critics wrongly suspected that Pushkin attempted to …
Queen Charlotte of England
She was Portugese Royalty With features as conspicuously Negroid as they were reputed to be by her contemporaries, it is no wonder that the black community, both in the U.S. and throughout the British Commonwealth, have rallied around pictures of Queen Charlotte for generations. They have pointed out the physiological traits that so obviously identify …
SIGILLUM SECRETUM Part III Sable
By Mario de Valdes y Cocom Another reason for the black blazon of the imperial eagle is to be found in the rules and regulations governing the use of ‘metals’ and ‘tinctures’ in coat armour.Following the classical Greek analysis of light and colour, black and white were considered the two primaries since the interplay between …
Alessandro de Medici – The African
Alessandro de Medici – The African Despite the many portraits of this 16th century Italian Renaissance figure, his African heritage is rarely, if ever, mentioned.[Editor’s Note: For more on this omission as it has occurred in the art world, read this January 2005 update.] Alessandro wielded great power as the first duke of Florence. He …
SIGILLUM SECRETUM
By Mario de Valdes y Cocom SIGILLUM SECRETUM (Secret Seal) On the image of the Blackamoor in European Heraldry (a preliminary proposal for an iconographical study) by Mario de Valdes y Cocom Considering the deep roots of Christianity in the cultural experience of the African American community, it is only natural that even in the …
The Sole of Africa
A Message From Mike Kendrick – Founder of The Mineseeker Foundation. LANDMINES kill, maim, terrify and starve the population. There are over 70 million landmines buried beneath the surface of this planet. Every twenty minutes a land mine kills or maims someone??? usually women and children. They render over 800 thousand square kilometers of land …
You Did It
Dear ONE Member, This Saturday at 1:27 AM, your elected leaders heard your voice and helped make possible a crucial victory against poverty by passing important trade legislation. The final votes for the bill were: Yea / Nay House of Representatives 212 / 184 Senate 79 / 9 When ONE Members first took action to …
Ceremonial Groundbreaking Commemorative Items
Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc. Dear Supporter, Our Ceremonial Groundbreaking on November 13th is a day that I will always remember. This day is a milestone accomplishment in our journey to build this Memorial. If you have not already done so, I invite you to visit our online store …
I’m Supporting the Hope for Haiti Charity
Room to Read partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools, libraries, and other educational infrastructure. We seek to intervene early in the lives of children in the belief that education is a lifelong gift that empowers people to ultimately improve socioeconomic conditions for their families, communities, countries, and future generations. Through …
I’m Supporting the Jackie Robinson Foundation
The Jackie Robinson Foundation (JRF) is a public, not-for-profit national organization founded by Rachel Robinson in 1973 as a vehicle to perpetuate the memory of Jackie Robinson and his achievements. Serving as an advocate for young people with the greatest need, the Foundation assists increasing numbers of minority youths through the granting of four-year scholarships …
The National Portrait Gallery – Josephine Baker: Image and Icon
Temporary exhibitions November 24, 2006 through March 18, 2007 This exhibition traces Josephine Baker’s important and innovative contribution to the Jazz Age through vintage photographs, posters, drawings, prints and paintings. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Baker’s birth, the exhibition explores the development of her image, first as an exotic phenomenon in a mid-1920s …
Tribute to Bebe Moore Campbell
A Celebration of Life and Victory for Elizabeth Bebe Moore Campbell Gordon On Monday, November 27, 2006 at 12:15 a. m. PST, our beloved internationally acclaimed best selling author, writer, and mental health advocate, Elizabeth Bebe Moore Campbell Gordon died peacefully at her home in Los Angeles due to complications related to brain cancer. My wife …