Gaddafi was certainly not killed for humanitarian reasons. He wanted to empower Africa. He had a plan to create a new African Union, based on a new African economic system. He wanted to introduce the Gold Dinar to back African currencies, so they could become free from the dollar. He wanted to protect Africa’s vast […]
Category Archives: PAN-AFRICANISM
Research on Pan-Africanism
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Jun
Jun
Though exact totals will never be known, the transatlantic slave trade is believed to have forcibly displaced some 12.5 million Africans between the 17th and 19th centuries; some 10.6 million survived the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Though descendants of these enslaved Africans now make up considerable segments of the population in the United […]
PAN-AFRICANISM, RESEARCH
The United States of America Police Departments Have 400-Year History of Racism
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Jun
Jun
There was no place to hide, no place to truly be safe. Across the U.S., black Americans lived in fear of law enforcement officials armed with weapons who monitored their every behavior, attacked them on the street and in their homes, and killed them for the slightest alleged provocation. These organized groups of white men […]
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Jun
Jun
Racism, also called racialism, is any action, practice, or belief that reflects the racial worldview—the ideology that humans may be divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called “races”; that there is a causal link between inherited physical traits and traits of personality, intellect, morality, and other cultural and behavioral features; and that some races […]
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Jun
Jun
The 46-year-old was known to friends as “Big Floyd” and had moved to Minneapolis to find work. George Floyd’s death has sparked protests across the US, with demonstrators desperately calling for an end to police violence. Mr Floyd was an unarmed black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for […]
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May
May
In 1900, the Trinindadian barrister – Henry Sylvester Williams – called a conference that took place in Westminster Hall, London to “protest stealing of lands in the colonies, racial discrimination and deal with other issues of interest to Blacks”. This conference drafted a letter to the Queen of England and other European rulers appealing to […]
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May
May
The modern conception of Pan-Africanism, if not the term itself, dates from at least the mid-nineteenth-century. The slogan, “Africa for the Africans,” popularized by Marcus Garvey’s (1887–1940) Declaration of Negro Rights in 1920, may have originated in West Africa, probably Sierra Leone, around this time. Pan-Africanist ideas first began to circulate in the mid-19th century […]