Blacks Also Owned Miles of US Pre-Columbian Lands
By Paul Barton, editorial, TOMRIC Agency (Dar es Salaam),
Washington D.C.—One of the saddest aspects of enslavement in the Americas, particular North America, is the fact that all forms of education was denied us and still is today. Blacks were forced to remain ignorant and told they have no history or culture. read more
There is a true iron culture in Africa. In many communities, iron is so revered it has been given divine status. In Nigeria’s Yoruba country, forges became the symbol of royalty at the end of the 9th century and Ogun, the god of iron, became the protector of the kingdom. Even today, Ogun is the chief deity of anyone working with iron. read more
“And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood….read more
Grievous harm’ from chemicals in air, food, water, panel says…
An expert panel that advises the president on cancer said Thursday that Americans are facing “grievous harm” from chemicals in the air, food and water that have largely gone unregulated and ignored. read more
The Bones of the Moorish Noble of Medieval England – Oguejiofo Annu
Researchers finally announced news of a 13th century skeleton of a black African Moorish noble unearthed on the grounds of a friary since 1990s. The physical evidence that Africans lived in England even in the medieval times shook up the academic world and spawned anxieties about the implication of this evidence on the faslely constructed historical framework foisted on the world by scholars of the western establishment.read more
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua, long plagued by poor health, has died at age 58, almost three months after his vice-president assumed control of Africa’s most populous nation, Yar’Adua’s spokesman said.read more
Barack Obama competed with television comedians to entertain an audience of celebrities and journalists at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. read more
You may want to think twice before eating your favorite strawberry yogurt from now on. According to the FDA, the red food coloring — called cochineal extract — found in popsicles, candy, strawberry yogurt, fruit drinks and even artificial crabmeat is made from the dried, ground bodies of an insect called Dactylopius coccus costa.read more
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