Everybody HasTo Be Involved In Project Africa.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- French President Francois Hollande for the first time provided details of his plan to pull France's combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year.

The new French leader, making good on one of the major foreign-policy promises of his campaign, confirmed in a one-day visit to Afghanistan that all of France's 2,000 combat troops would be brought home by...

On April 15, 1958, in the city of Accra Ghana, African leaders and political activists gathered at thefirst Conference of Independent African States. It was attended by representatives of the governments of Ethiopia, Ghana,Liberia, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, The United Arab Republic (which was the federation of Egypt and Syria) and representatives of the National LiberationFront of Algeria and the Union of Cameroonian Peoples. This conference was significant in that it represen...

Great Zimbabwe

The first Europeans travelers to set their eyes upon the great Zimbabwe said:

“Among the gold mines of the inland plains between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers [there is a]…fortress built of stones of marvelous size, and there appears to be no mortar joining them….

This edifice is almost surrounded by hills, upon which are others resembling it in the ...

Few people know the story of Claudette Colvin (Born September 5, 1939, in Montgomery, Alabama). When she was 15, Colvin was arrested in March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat to a white person. She was arrested and became one of four plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, which ruled that Montgomery's segregated bus system was unconstitutional. Colvin was the first to really challenge the law.

In early 1955, Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old black girl...

Michelle Janine Howard (born April 30, 1960) is the first female African American 2 star Rear Admiral upper class in the United States Navy. Admiral Howard commanded the ship that saved the widely reported kidnapped captain of the seized cargo ship Maersk Alabama from Somali Pirates. Howard received the assignment of leading the U.S. Navy’s counter-piracy task force just three days before attack. She assumed command of Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 2 and Combined Task Force (CTF)...

Mary Elizabeth Bowser (born 1839, date of death unknown) was an American freed slave who worked in connection with Elizabeth Van Lew as a Union spy during the Civil War.

Bowser was born a slave on a plantation near Richmond, Virginia to owner John Van L...

if you cant die for it, put the word ''freedom'' out of your vocabulary

-Malcom X

Happy birthday Malcom, we love you ♥

We need to pause to think about him, because he left, for us, important social and political lessons.

Though Malcolm's life was short, it was marked by dramatic change. He was born into poverty, madness and racial violence. His youthful arrogance, crime and indulg...

BLACK WOMAN'S SPINE

I see your spine it's as solid as steel

I see your eyes it always keeps it real

The black woman has kept the family together

and held us together through the Impossible ,She has seen her man The black man stripped of his diginity and of his manhood during the day's of slavery,she has watched the black man suffer from pain and misery of bieng br...

The Black Liberation Struggle: What Really Happened Off the ’60s —And What Did Not

The masses answered this question, unmistakably. People rebelled in hundreds of American cities,25 and the revolutionary stance of leaders like Malcolm X and forces like the Black Pant...

Wife of the Hon Marcus Garvey..

Amy Euphemia Jacques-Garvey Born in Kingston, Jamaica Dec 31, 1895 - July 25, 1973 the second wife of Marcus Garvey, did not derive her legitimacy from the status of her husband. She was a leading Pan-Africanist and Black Nationalist in her own right. Amy Garvey was one of the key political leaders, archivist, and interpreters of the Garvey movement. She participated direc...

James Pierson Beckwourth (April 6, 1798 Frederick County, Virginia – October 29, 1866, Denver) was an American mountain man, fur trader, and explorer. A mulatto born into slavery in Virginia, he later moved to the American West. As a fur trapper, he lived with the Crow for years. He is credited with the discovery of Beckwourth Pass through the Sierra Nevada (U.S.) Mountains between present day Reno, Nevada and Portola, California during the California Gold Rush years, and improved the B...

Although she may have been one of the toughest women ever to work in a convent, 'Black Mary' had earned the respect and devotion of most of the residents of the pioneer community of Cascade, Montana, before she died in 1914. In fact, Mary Fields was widely beloved. She was admired and respected throughout the region for holding her own and living her own way in a world where the odds were stacked against her. In a time when African Americans and women of any race enjoyed little freedom anywhe...

The single most effective White propaganda assertion that continues to make it very difficult for us to reconstruct the African social systems of mutual trust broken down by U.S. Slavery is the statement, unqualified, that, "We sold each other into slavery." Most of us have accepted this statement as true at its face value. It implies that parents sold their children into slavery to Whites, husbands sold their wives, even brothers and sisters selling each other to the Whites. It continues to ...

Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was vocalist and actress who was a key figure in the development of African American culture between the two World Wars. She broke barrier after barrier, becoming the first black woman heard on the radio, the first black singer to perform on television, the first African American to perform in an integrated cast on Broadway, and the first black woman to perform in a lead dramatic role on Broadway. She opened all the theatrical doors h...

Mark Matthews (August 7, 1894 – September 6, 2005) was an American veteran of the Second World War and a Buffalo Soldier. Born in Alabama and growing up in Ohio, Matthews joined the 10th Cavalry Regiment when he was only 15 years old, after having been recruited at a Lexington, Kentucky racetrack and having documents forged so that he appeared to meet the minimum age of 17. While stationed in Arizona, he joined General John J. Pershing's Mexico expeditio...

Susie Baker King Taylor (1848-1912) was the first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves in Georgia

They say we don’t have heroes. I say how can we have heroes when we write them out of the history books?

Let me tell you a story that you probably won’t find in the rete...