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NB Commentary:
I was about to throw all my blue garlic out. It was such a shock to see my garlic turn blue. I like to buy garlic cloves and blend them up in my blender with a little water. They are so much stronger in scent and flavor rather than buying the already hulled garlic cloves that come stored in a jar. I debated whether or not to purchase them or overcome the dread I feel when having to hull garlic cloves, they come in so many siz
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I am sharing this piece for the information that it contains. All too often we tend to use rhetoric, stereotypes and innuendos when talking about our African brothers and sisters in the Homeland. Many of us have been conditioned to see and believe that African peoples are and have been primitive with no real social order, familial structure, civilization, rules or customs. Those of us who have traveled there come to see a different wo
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We resolve, we resolve, we resolve
by Rudwaan

It’s the start that stops most of us
resolutions are dropped
as glasses are raised
in a New Year’s toast to us
most mean well
most can hardly tell
why most mostly fail
while most others mostly boast to us
it’s the start that stops most of us

We resolve to consume less
get our shoes from Payless
pay less time to daytime soap stress
and more time to our night-time love nest
love less needless drama
and give more love to our baby’s mama

We resolve to lose

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DC91889LOGOTo commemorate and celebrate the contributions to our nation made by people of African descent, American historian Carter G. Woodson established Black History Week. The first celebration occurred on Feb. 12, 1926. For many years, the second week of February was set aside for this celebration to coincide with the birthdays of abolitionist/editor Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, as part of the nation's bicentennial, the week was expanded into Black History Month. Each year, U.S. pr

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Police State USA

                                              3828578466?profile=original                         Chicago's Police Homan Square Secret Detention, Abuse and Interrogation Center                                     

      [By Junious Ricardo Stanton"For numerous decades the United States has engaged in both high intensive and low intensive counterinsurgency and counterterrorism wars around the globe. But now in the twenty-first century all those same black ops wars have come home to roost right here in the land of the no

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Everest Three Pass Trek

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The Everest three pass trek experience begins as we load up a picturesque mountain flight from Kathmandu to Lukla and trek towards Namche Bazar, the home of Sherpas. In the wake of acclimatizing at Namche for two evenings we take after the prominent Everest trail through Tengboche, Dingboche and rest for one more day at Chukkung before intersection first high go of Kongma La at a height of 5535m. At that point we will be venturing at Everest base camp by means of Lobuche and Gorakshep took after

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Why & How Africans Embrace Christianity

Invasion Through Conversion


"A striking example of how Christianity destroys a proud culture, by introducing "doubt". The Christian body is imperfect, we are "sinners". These beautiful people learn for the first time, that their behavior is a "sin". A bigger psychological disastrous impact is the fictitious idea of the Christian afterlife, their current world is a place of sin, they are sinners, the "real life" will start in the afterlife. Makes me think what proud people we could be, if we could
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We Did It — They Hid It

We Did It — They Hid It
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In order to raise the consciousness of our African brothers and sisters, we must understand and apply the Akan concept of Sankofa, which means that in order to move forward we first have to take a step back. In other words, before we can be prepared for the future, we must comprehend the past. Therefore, here is a partial list of just some of the thousands of past (and present) inventions, patents, improvements, discoveries, creations, and innovations by and pertaining to
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T'Juan is the oldest of four brothers raised by a single parent mother in which he recently lost. Going down the wrong road, he dropped out of high school at the age of 16 and was a teen parent. Through a lot of adversity and wrong choices in his life he later would find the right people to guide him in the right direction, personally and spiritually. He went back to high school, worked hard to receive his diploma and is now attending Berklee College of Music. He is also a proud single custodial
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FL77195LOGO?max=400Unwrap South African Airways low fares for travel in 2016 - 

 South African Airways (SAA), the national flag carrier of South Africa andAfrica's most awarded airline, is offering special fares from the U.S. to destinations in Africa for travel in 2016.  The fares are offered from New York-JFK International Airport and Washington D.C. Dulles International Airport to Johannesburg, South Africa, starting at$759.00* (restrictions apply) round-trip, as well as from Washington, D.C. Dulles Internation

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Demba-Ndiaye_1636056.jpg?width=350By Demba Ndiaye | As in any other market environment, coping with the underpinning values and priorities of such market structure matters most.

The so-called "advantage of backwardness" defining the relative disadvantage of African economic structure, makes it a good fit for conservative approaches to sustainability. In other words, the evolving shift in business paradigm and world economy governance framework remain all favorable to ramping up of business in Africa!

African youth remains very a

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African Fabrics - How To Shop For One

3828578328?profile=originalBy Keiko Mendoza | African fabrics have made waves in the fashion industry due to their unique features, designs as well as material. Once overlooked by many, it has now become one of the most popular materials used in the fashion world. If you are shopping for dresses made from these fabrics or want to make your own dresses using these, it is important to know the different kinds as each material might be suitable for one specific type of dress but not for another.

Wax and Fancy

African fabrics

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Georgia

JUSTICE OR ELSE?

In reality if there is no serious response from our people after all that marching in the streets and demanding justice, etc. Then we will not be a force to be reckoned with. The police will continue to assassinate our people with impunity and nobody should say nuffin no more.

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How can we make any kind of impact or change if we are too weak, brainwashed and conditioned to stop participating in their holidays? I always say that this time of year is the most blatant celebration of w
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Kapy Bash Mode ..
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Contributing cultural fashions to New York Fashion Week is always welcomed in a city of cultural diversity. During market week in September, African elegance arrived at New York’s Plaza Hotel. The Kapy Bash Mode collection debuted in a collective showcase of international presenters to an audience of style enthusiast, fashion influencers and media makers. Kapy Bash Mode offers African ethnic gowns that are inspired by cultures from the Democratic Republic of the Co

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Code G was born on June 11, 1987 in Titusville Florida. Between the ages of 8 and 9 he started recording hisself on cassette tapes as well as make his beats with a MPC. Code G later moved to Atlanta at the age of 16 where his music career started to flourish. Being a jack of all trades he took the music industry on head strong. Music Producer, Engineer, Videographer, as well as an Artist, Code G is more than a triple threat.

Becoming a father at 19 he wanting more for his family. Code G wanted to

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The following is an online petition to the United States Congress (the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives) for a “study” on reparations. 

The online address to sign the petition is as follows:

https://www.change.org/p/u-s-senate-u-s-house-of-representatives-pass-h-r-40-begin-the-study-of-reparations-for-african-americans?recruiter=165126964&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_term=mob-xs-share_petition-reason_msg&fb_ref=Default

Please go online and sign

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Cynthia McKinney:
5624be29c46188ea548b45e4.jpg?width=350Uber, with Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street insiders as investors, including the Chicago Mayor’s brother, Ari Emanuel, is putting at risk thousands of jobs nationwide while the taxi industry undergoes a game-changing transformation.

Last week I was in Moscow, invited there by the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (AGM), an organization founded by young patriotic Russians. They have made an effort to reach out to progressive communities around the world, even protesting in

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Who is Jucee Froot

Jucee Froot was born on July 12 1994 in Memphis Tennessee and between the ages of 6 and 9 she learned to play piano, as well as write her own music. She later went on to create YouTube videos and generate a following for herself. Jucee Froot remixed K.Camp's song "Damn Right and her version went viral on WordStar and Facebook with over 5 million views. On May 24, 2014 the father of her newborn child was shot and killed in a drive by shooting and that caused her to put a lot of

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Good Morning,

Today, we released The 2015 Year-End Police Violence Report, focused on police killings in America's 60 largest cities. The data, part of the Mapping Police Violence project which is the foundation for our work withCampaign Zero, shows which of these cities' police departments kill people at higher or lower rates than others. Three charts presenting the data and the source dataset are attached. Key findings include:

Police killed at least 1,152 people in America from January

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michael.jpgMy Letter To Donald Trump


Today I went & stood in front of Trump Tower & held a sign until the police came. Then I went home & wrote Donald a letter. Here it is: 

Dear Donald Trump: 

You may remember (you do, after all, have a "perfect memory!"), that we met back in November of 1998 in the green room of a talk show where we were both scheduled to appear one afternoon. But just before going on, I was pulled aside by a producer from the show who said that you were "nervous" about being on the set wi
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