Africa Rebranded

23/07/2015

Warriors of African Consciousness

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Africa Rebranded Movement

31/01/2015

Zimbabwean president made head of 54-nation bloc, prompting some to say it sends negative signal.

29/01/2015

10 precolonial African kingdoms you probably didn't know about...

Know your history!

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Nok Culture (500 B.C. to 200 A.D.) The Nok Culture spanned the end of the Neolithic (Stone Age) and start of the Iron Age in sub-Saharan Africa. One of the earliest African centers of iron-working and terracotta figure production, the Nok Culture remains an enigma. The Nok were an extremely advanced…

26/01/2015

AFRICANGLOBE - Some of humanity’s technological innovations are things we would have been better off without: the medieval rack, the atomic bomb and powdered lead potions come to mind. Religions tend to invent ideas or concepts rather than technologies, but like every other creative human enterprise…

26/01/2015

25/01/2015

AFRICANGLOBE - France had an overseas empire that it achieved through indisputable acts of violence. It retained its colonial possessions – until it could no longer do so – through open repression. In 1947, in the face of an anti-colonial uprising, France conducted a legendary and ignominious assaul…

21/01/2015

With names like "Skin So White," "White Perfect," and "White and Lovely," skin bleaching creams are becoming a popular -- and controversial -- part of many women's beauty routines. While skin lighteners may be used by di...

18/01/2015

The South African government will have to decide whether or not to award parole to a handful of apartheid era murderers. Pusch Commey reports on the cases the justice minister will have to consider

18/01/2015

Last month Nick Cannon expressed his disdain for movies such as “Django Unchained” and “12 Years a Slave,” saying he’s tired of seeing Black people portrayed as slaves on film. Recognizing that African people’s history started prior to being enslaved, the actor tweeted that he would like to see Bla…

18/01/2015

Almost every single leader who has stood up for Africa's right to economic self a determination has been eliminated, either physically or politically!

The question still being asked by Africans decades after we have gained nominal political independence is: 'How long shall they kill our prophets while we stand beside and look?'

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Our mission is to unite every black family world wide ,We seek to foster a more unified and stronger black community in which our community is included and valued, by sharing ideas based on the challenges we .

17/01/2015

Richest Man to Ever Live Emperor Mansa Musa I, an African king from the late 13th century, is considered the richest person to ever live, with an estimated net worth of $400 billion, according to www.celebritynetworth.com, above the noted Sam Walton, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates combined wealth. …

17/01/2015

Listen to, Betty DeRamus~ "That's MY BOOK NBC and Stevie Wonder are talking about. They're going to turn my first book, "Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad," into an 8-hour television miniseries and, later, a musical with new songs by Stevie. Am I excited? You don't know the half of it."
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Listen to Betty DeRamus talk about her book, Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad" on The Gist of Freedom on www.blackhistoryblog.com

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NBC announced that it is producing an eight-hour miniseries about love stories on the Underground Railroad, with Stevie Wonder serving as executive producer.

The miniseries, titled Freedom Run, is an adaptation of Betty DeRamus’s 2005 book Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories From the Underground Railroad. It will focus on three “specific epic journeys and love stories, each based on actual people,” according to NBC.

The miniseries will be written by B. Swibel, Adam Westbrook, and Charles Randolph-Wright, who will also executive produce. Per NBC, DeRamus’s book is also being developed as a stage musical for which Swibel, Westbrook, and Randolph-Wright are writing the book and Wonder is attached to compose the score.