DAVID MASCI | PEW RESEARCH CENTER
This is one of an occasional series of posts on black Americans and religion.
Sunday, September 29, 2019
5 facts about the religious lives of African Americans + Millennial trends & other black religion statistics
DAVID MASCI | PEW RESEARCH CENTER
This is one of an occasional series of posts on black Americans and religion.
Friday, September 27, 2019
Thursday, September 26, 2019
📺MUST SEE: Growing Concerns Over China’s Control Of American Drug Supply
⚠️EVERYONE should carefully watch the brief video above and really consider with utmost seriousness the gravity and implications of what it is revealing⚠️
Is China colonizing Africa and appropriating its resources through DEBT SLAVERY?
Why Is China Building Africa?
Panos Mourdoukoutas | FORBES
China is all over Africa these days, building railroads, bridges, and ports, doing what European colonialists should have done long-time ago.
Why?
Monday, September 23, 2019
WALT DICKERSON • Autumn In New York • 1962
Many people have of done memorable renditions of this song, but this one is my personal favorite. Hope everyone is enjoying the change of seasons and all the unique beauty and inspiration it can bring...
Sunday, September 22, 2019
Resilient 10 year old girl bullied for rocking big, beautiful afro at school says her response will be to come back even ‘Bigger and Better’
‘Bigger and Better’: 10-Year-Old Inspires in Viral Video Touting the Importance of Embracing Natural Hair
Kiersten Willis | ATLANTA BLACK STAR
In a time when natural hair continues to be policed, a fifth grader is doing her part to encourage people to love their hair the way it grows out of their scalps.
Promise Sawyers is 10 years old, and even at her tender age, she’s got a message of self-acceptance that is worth listening to.
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Report Finds Media More Likely to Cite Video Games as Factor in Shootings When Suspect Is White
Anne Branigin | THE ROOT
Researchers have long discredited the link between video games and gun violence—more specifically, mass shootings. But not only is the narrative false, like many other facets of American life, it’s also touched by race.
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
FUNKADELIC • Can You Get To That? • 1971
This intro acoustic lick is one of the first things I ever learned to play on a guitar... I will always love this song -- not just for that -- but the wise message it offers as well...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
LEE MORGAN • In What Direction Are You Headed? • 1970
🔥One of my most favorite joyntz EVER to burn long and stretch out playing on a bass or guitar ~ true old skool JAM right here ~ if you can't make it to the 2:00 you need to work on your attention span and you will miss out BIG time ~ but it's cool ~ erry'one else buckle up and enjoy the ride ~ and let us all be sure to ask ourselves ~ every moment ~ of everyday ~ In What Direction Are You Headed?
Monday, September 16, 2019
NANCY WILSON • Sunshine • 1979
Summer's coming to and end in a matter of days... thought I'd better play this sweet Jazz-Funk joint by the legendary songstress while the sun is still out there shinin'! ...
110-Year-Old War Veteran Serenaded and Covered in Kisses
Lawrence Brooks celebrated a birthday this past Thursday, September 12th at 110 years young! The celebration took place at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. He is the nation’s oldest surviving World War Two veteran.
Brooks served the predominantly Black 91st Engineer Battalion stationed in New Guinea and then the Philippines where he became private first class.
Some things he says he remembers, some things he doesn't remember, and some things he doesn't want to remember.
Happy bday to Private First Class Lawrence Brooks!!! 😘😘😘
Source:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/110-year-old-war-veteran-serenaded-and-covered-in-kisses_3082958.html
Sunday, September 15, 2019
Saturday, September 14, 2019
The US medical system is still haunted by slavery
We're just scratching the surface here...
Read MUCH more in the afroperspectives library: The Truth About SLAVERY, SORCERY & SALVATION
Sixth New Jersey Cop Pleads Guilty to Stealing Thousands from Drivers In Illegal Stops, Using Tactic Called ‘Brake-Checking’
Lauren Floyd | ATLANTA BLACK STAR
A sixth New Jersey police officer pleaded guilty Monday after an FBI investigation led to corruption charges against him and six other cops.
CECIL MCBEE SEXTET • First Song In The Day • LIVE in NYC • 1977
GOOD MORNING! And no big deal here folks... just one of the best to ever touch this instrument and some of his friends having a thouroughly roasted stretched out late-70's moment in NYC... First Song In The Day, eh? Well hey.... I guess some of us do get up and out the door moving this quickly... what can I say?
Friday, September 13, 2019
The Black Man Trump Called ‘My African American’ Calls It Quits on the Republican Party
Better late than never? Smdh...
Philly’s Interim Police Chief Accuses Folks of Being ‘Mean Spirited’ After a Photo of Her Wearing T-Shirt Mocking Rodney King Beating Resurfaces
Tanasia Kenney | ATLANTA BLACK STAR
Philadelphia’s acting police commissioner says she’s “profoundly sorry” after a 1990s photo showed her sporting a T-shirt that appeared to make light of the Rodney King beating.
Interim police chief Catherine Coulter apologized Tuesday, saying she wasn’t aware of the reference at the time.
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Reflections on 9/11 • I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOU • God, John Coltrane, New York City And My Journey As A 21st Century Jazz Musician
It was early on the first day of Spring 2001, when I got on a Greyhound bus and left the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area which had been my primary home since birth nearly 30 years earlier.
It was an extremely momentous and pivotal point in my life - and this very well planned journey I had embarked upon to travel by land across this entire country for the next three days straight to my destination in New York City had many deep layers of meaning and importance for me.
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
The ROOT Exclusive: Martin Luther King Jr. Talks Reparations, White Economic Anxiety and Guaranteed Income in Previously Unheard Speech
Michael Harriot | THE ROOT
A newly uncovered speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered in 1967 sounds curiously like the civil rights icon is speaking about current-day conditions as he preaches about underfunded schools, the wage gap, white backlash against black progress and the country’s need to address poverty.
Black Florida Father Who Can’t Swim Risks His Life to Save Drowning Elderly Man • AND • Why Are Black Children 3 Times More Likely To Drown Than White Ones?
Lauren Floyd | ATLANTA BLACK STAR
Shandale Lee can’t swim, but that didn’t stop him from helping rescue an elderly man who nearly drowned in a retention pond Friday morning in Florida.
Emergency workers responded to State Road 100 West just before 11:30 a.m. after receiving reports that a vehicle was in a retention pond, according to NBC affiliate WTLV.
When they arrived to the scene about 50 miles southeast of Jacksonville, they found Lee and an unidentified man working to pull the victim from the fully submerged vehicle, Bradford County Emergency Management officials told the news station.
“I knew something was wrong,” Lee told WTLV, unsure how long it would take for first-responders to arrive. “So I know if they aren’t going to get there, I have to get there.”
Monday, September 9, 2019
Sunday, September 8, 2019
Saturday, September 7, 2019
Samuel Jackson, Notre Dame’s 2nd ever black leprechaun mascot responds to racist criticism
Notre Dame’s black leprechaun mascot responds to racist criticism
Cindy Boren | THE WASHINGTON POST
Samuel B. Jackson, only the second African American chosen to cheer for Notre Dame as one of its leprechaun mascots, issued a plea for unity after his mere presence on the sideline at the football opener was criticized.
BOB MARLEY and THE WAILERS • So Jah Seh • LIVE in Jamaica • 1976
Bob having far more than a just a "religious" experience here, friends...
Friday, September 6, 2019
BOB MARLEY • Last Words to his Fans About "The Voice inside..." • 1980
"Wisdom is justified of Her children..."
Bahamas Death Toll Rises to 30 as Resident Says ‘There’s Nothing on the Island’
By Kiersten Willis | ATLANTA BLACK STAR
Hurricane Dorian made it’s way past the Bahamas over the last several days but although the now-Category 2 storm has now reached the U.S. East Coast, it left devastation across the northern half of the archipelago of islands off the southern Florida coast, as the death toll has reached 30, according to the Washington Post.
Dorian ravaged the Bahamian Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama as a Category 5 storm. The Weather Channel reports roads remain closed as a result of the destruction, which included severe flooding of homes. Rescue groups are trying to assist survivors by giving them food and medicine and taking the people most affected by the devastation to safety.
BLACK ROOTS • On The Frontline • 2004 ('80-'83)
This UK band is extremely underrated and not as well known as others from the island during the golden era, but they hit just as heavy with the fat riddims and🔥irie vibe...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Today In History: Black People Helped Create Los Angeles, and City Leaders Reportedly Kept It Hidden for Decades
Miriam Matthews, California’s first college-trained Black librarian, advocated for Black founders of Los Angeles and successfully got the city to install a plaque honoring them for its bicentennial in 1981, researchers said. (Photo by Sweet Blackberry / Twitter)
Lauren Floyd | ATLANTA BLACK STAR
The sprawling Southern California city that has become an epicenter for the nation’s television and film industry was founded by a group of majority-Black people 238 years ago on this date.
That city is none other than Los Angeles, and only in recent decades have city leaders come to consider that racial and cultural history something to be proud of.
A plaque was installed in El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park in the 1950s to honor the families of 44 people — more than half of whom were Black — who traveled from Mexico and founded Los Angeles on Sept. 4, 1781, according to the Los Angeles Times.
JUNIOR BYLES • Break Up To Make Up • 1973
I think I like this version as much as the original and I've always dug that one a lot...
🔥NEW! SiR • You Can't Save Me • LIVE Session • 2019🔥
This guy is so incredibly talented ~ even Stevie Wonder is a huge fan... not much if anything by him I don't like... and this song that just dropped right here is gorgeous🔥... check it out...
‘Truly Beautiful’: NAOMI OSAKA and COCO GAUFF Win Praise for Embracing Each Other After Match
By Daryl Nelson | ATLANTA BLACK STAR
Naomi Osaka and Coco Gauff faced each other for the first time at the U.S. Open on Saturday in Flushing, New York, and a lot is being said about what took place after their match ended.
The 21-year-old Osaka routed the 15-year-old Gauff in the third round of the tournament 6-3, 6-0.
Afterward, Osaka — who’s ranked the No. 1 player in the world — approached the teen and invited her to join her for a post-match interview. She offered some kind words to her as well.
“Do you want to do the interview with me?” Osaka asked Gauff. “These people are here for you.”
“I’m gonna cry,” Gauff told her.
“No, you’re good,” Osaka replied. “Look, you’re amazing. Seriously.”
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
BOB MARLEY and the WAILERS • War/No More Trouble (LIVE) • 1977
This is an outstanding video and one of my favorite songs...
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