Funeral Services on Saturday February 1st for Mrs. Margaret Robinson the wife of Rev. C.E. Robinson

Funeral services for Margaret Robinson, the wife of Rev. Charles E. Robinson, will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, February 1, 2014, at the Starlight MBC, 3506 West Cermak Road, where he is pastor and she had been the church’s First Lady. 

Mrs. Robinson, 6

Update: Wake and Funeral Services for AMIRI BARAKA

Community-wide tributes to Amiri Baraka who joined the Ancestors at 79

The Newark AntiViolence Coalition is stunned beyond words to learn of the passing of our beloved warrior elder Amiri Baraka!

Home Going Services for John Watusi Branch of the Afrikan PoetryTheatre, Sunday January 5th.

Home Going Services for John Watusi Branch will be THIS SUNDAY Jan 5th 11am to 4pm at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center. Information regarding the burial will be made public at that time. The VIEWING will take place THIS SATURDAY, January 4, 2014 fr

Baba Zayid Muhammad on the passing of John Watusi Branch, founder of the Afrikan Poetry Theatre

A tribute to Angola and Cuba by Nelson Mandela

Cynthia McKinney's brilliant observation on Mandela/State of our world

Let's honour Mandela's memory by striving to complete 'that' sacred Revolution: David A. Comissiong, Caribbean Pan-African Network

TRIBUTE TO NELSON MANDELA

Many years ago - before Nelson Mandela was President of South Africa;
before he was the darling of the Western media; and before he was
claimed as a role model by the President of the United States and the
Prime Minister of Brit

Nelson Mandela Named One of the "35 Most Inspirational People in History" in a Two Year Online Survey and Collectible Set

Based on a worldwide YouTube survey, a new trading card set featuring 35 "inspirational" historic personalities from around the world includes a special card spotlighting Nelson Mandela. Recently departed former South African President and anti-apart

Rest In Peace, New Ancestor Nelson Mandela

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful without measure."

He symbolized resistance against brutal racism.  He symbolized a commitment to nonviolence, and then to armed struggle when peaceful options

Mandela: Goodness Personified, Terrorism Purified by Prof. Gus John

There appears to be an unwritten code of conduct in most societies I know that you speak good of the dead or hold your peace and let them rest in peace.             In the last few days I have longed for some people to do the latter and not pollute t

The Five Mandibas

I heard someone say today there were Five Mandibas just like there were three Malcolms. For the latter, Malcolm Little, Malcolm X and El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. For the former, Mandiba before Robben Island, Mandiba on Robben Island, Mandiba… after rel

Malcolmites Mourns Mandela's Passing, Chides Hypocrisy of American Officials.

Funeral Arrangements: Bishop Queen Mother Sylvia Marion Parousia Pauline Jordan Purcell, 94, of The Ethiopian World Federation, NY.

Services to be held Friday December 13, 2013 for Queen Mother Sylvia Marion Parousia Pauline Jordan - the oldest member of Ethiopian World Federation, Inc. Local Number One in New York.

     Funeral services for Queen Mother Sylvia Marion Parousia Pa

The People's Organization For Progress hosts Mandela Memorial March, Newark NJ, Sunday Dec 8th

The People's Organization For Progress will have a Memorial March For Nelson Mandela this Sunday, December 8, 2013, 2:00pm beginning at the corner of Broad and Market Stree

The National Jericho Movement Honors the Life and Legacy of President Nelson Mandela

The National Jericho Movement to Free US held Political Prisoners joins the rest of the world in honoring the life and legacy of President Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela will forever be remembered as a true revolutionary, devoting his entire life to

A Birthday Poem in Memory of Dr. RAS ESP McPherson

“It’s Your Birthday 2013”

Dr. RAS ESP McPherson

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Written By: Joylyn McPherson (sister)

6 September 2013

By: Rashida Stewart(niece)

It’s another year and you are not here,

Your spirit live as l

Renowned Ghanaian Poet Kofi Awoonor Dies In The Kenyan Mall Attack

If We Must Die: Claude McKay - Born September 15, 1890

If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursèd lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vai

Cameroonians and friends mourn the death of Dr. Martin "Martino" Atangana