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Africa Resource proudly presents award winning artist, George Fikry, a distinguished Egyptian painter, artist and professor of Art Education at Helwan University. George Fikry works in different media including painting, drawing, and computer art. Versatile in different fields, animation, video art, photography, graphics, installations, performance art and digital video, he engages in imaginative and expressive depiction of Egyptian social, cultural and political life.

Today we celebrate the life and times of Malcolm X. Included in this 30 minute audio mix are excerpts from his speeches which underscore is outlook and philosophy. We also have keen commentary from people like Sista Souljah and the late Ossie Davis. Breakdown FM w/ Davey D

Remembering the values of empathy and service that his mother taught him, Barack put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment. The group had some success, but Barack had come to realize that in order to truly improve the lives of people in that community and other communities, it would take not just a change at the local level, but a change in our laws and in our politics.

Lucky Philip Dube was born on the 3rd of August in 1964. After a few failed pregnancy attempts by his mother Sarah, Lucky came into the world. Giving birth to a boy was considered a blessing and his mother considered his birth so fortunate that she aptly named him 'Lucky'. His birth took place on a small farm outside the town of Ermelo, a dry, unspectacular area some 150 kilometers west of Johannesburg. Born into a single parent family, times were tough for a black boy born into poverty and with the Group Areas Act and the Pass Laws of the time, many families relocation was restricted, therefore children grew up not knowing their fathers at all, as they were often forced to leave home to find work in the cities.

The new United Nation Deputy Secretary General is the notable law professor, Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro. Dr. Migiro is the First African Woman to hold this prestigious post. During her tenure as Foreign Minister, Dr. Migiro spearheaded Tanzania's engagement in the search of peace, security and development in the Great Lakes Region.