In this special Black History Month Celebration edition of “Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio,” Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (QueenQuet.com) will focus on the history of destructionment of Black townships and gentrification which led to genocide in the Gullah/Geechee Nation.
Black History Web is delighted to announce the addition of a new feature to our web site.
The African Maritime History Archive is a repository for for articles and resources related to the important and often neglected history of African maritime skills and travels. The archive features an extensive collection of articles form historian, Harry Bourne, as well as additional related resources.
We will be adding resources to the archive when they become available so if you have suggestions, please let us know.
AFRICAN MARITIME HISTORY ARCHIVE: The Harry Bourne Collection
“It has long been my opinion that our ancestors were in touch by sea that modern-day academics allow when sneering at what they would they largely dismiss as diffusionism. After some years of being interested in the maritime Celts of west Europe, it occurred to me that it might that be interesting to see what was happening further to the south on the coasts of Africa. Having found there was a mass of material scattered in various places in books, articles and several places online, it seemed possible to bring some of this together and these papers attest my efforts to do so. It wll be very obvious that there is an emphasis on west Africa. As much as anything, these papers represent attempts at particularly answering the views frequently stated that west Africans did not go to sea because they were too scared to do so.” – H.B.
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| “building a fishing sailboat in the same way his ancestors did hundreds of years ago” |
Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations, which covers over 5000 years of Black history, includes quotations, sayings, proverbs, literature excerpts, song lyrics and more. The long list of topics include art, activism, history, philosophy, politics, science and theology, to name just a few.
In 764 wonderful pages, editor Retha Powers, has managed to compile a truly impressive and monumentally thorough collection of African American quotations. This new anthology has raised the bar in the genre and promises to inspire generations to come.
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Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World
This video of H. Rap Brown discussing politics and movements in the United States with Gil Nobel. The interview has a lot of resonance with the issues we focus on today. He discusses elections not being an effective way to advance our cause; and even says that if we were to ever elect a black president, we would need to be prepared to protest him because it is the system that is broken. He also discusses the media and how it is not a vehicle for telling the truth about revolutionary political change. He also discusses movement leadership and growth. He describes the movement as one without leaders but there are people who provide ideas but do not tell people what to do. He says movements must provide people with services the government is failing to provide to bring people to the movement. He sees movements as building from the bottom up, led by people who are oppressed. H. Rap Brown, was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, and during a short-lived (six months) alliance between SNCC and the Black Panther Party, he served as their Minister of Justice. He is currently serving a life sentence for murder following the 2000 shooting of two Fulton County Sheriff’s deputies, both African-American. He continues to deny the murder. The interviewer Gil Nobel has a weekly show on WABC-TV in New York called “Like It Is.”