Seven Shades Of Pale - A glimpse of Black Nova Scotia in the seventies

Seven Shades Of Pale is a National Film Board of Canada presentation that takes us into the lives of rural Black Nova Scotians. We get a sense of what life was like in 1975 for these folks and they speak about what it was like before that as well. We get to meet the younger and the older generation
and learn something about their experiences in Nova Scotia. I'm sure you will find this video entertaing and educational.


       I'm sorry this video is no longer available on youtube you can see a bit about it on the web site of The National Film Board of Canada (click to see)

GENOCIDE IN NAMIBIA 1904

Namibia Genocide

Along the coastline of Namibia runs the Namib desert, a 1,200 mile long strip of unwelcoming sand dunes and barren rock. Behind it is the central mountain plateau, and east of that the Kalahari desert. Namibia's scarcest commodity is water: this is a country of little rainfall, and the rivers don't always run. But the very sand of the Skeleton Coast is the dust of gemstones; uranium, tin and tungsten can be mined in the central Namib, and copper in the north; and in the south there are diamonds. Namibia also has gold, silver, lithium, and natural gas. For most of the region's history, only metal was of interest to the native tribes. These tribes lived and traded together more or less peacefully, each with their own particular way of living, wherever the land was fertile enough. The San were nomads, hunters and gatherers. The Damara hunted and worked copper. The Ovambo grew crops in the north, where there was more rain, but also worked in metal. The Nama and the Herero were livestock farmers, and they were the two main tribes in the 1840s when the Germans (first missionaries, then settlers, then soldiers) began arriving in South West Africa.

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The following is a very interesting video 

on the subject of the genocide in Namibia

• Today white Namibians are Afrikaners, while some are descended from German, Portuguese, or English immigrants. About 4,000 commercial land owners, mostly white people, own over 50% the arable land across the country despite a land reform process. While the area was known as South West Africa, white Namibians enjoyed a highly privileged position due to apartheid laws enforcing strict segregation. This left the whites holding all the marbles due to their privileged circumstances.

To this day the original people have yet to be compensated for lands or left with suitable means of sustaining themselves, what has changed exactly?

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Black History Month Screenshot

This google search came up blank. Not one match for the string search "Teaching History to Black Children" was found. Does this say anything to you?  Any Black bloggers, authors, teachers, community organizers have any ideas about this? Ya know if we don't do it someone else will.

SNCC 50 YEARS LATER

SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference

To be was held in

Raleigh, North Carolina

April 15-18, 2010

Presently we're in Feb. 2017 which will make this the 57th anniversary of SNCC and I have made some adjustments and added a few things to this post.

Freedom Riders

John Lewis describes his experience on the Freedom Rides

Lunch Counter Sit-ins

John Winters talks about sit-ins

                                                   RealAudio

• John Lewis describes his experience on the Freedom Rides
• Julian Bond talks about the formation of SNCC
• Bob Moses describes the Greenwood Voter Registration Project
• Fannie Lou Hamer talks about registering to vote
• Fannie Lou Hamer sings
• John Winters talks about sit-ins
• The SNCC Freedom Singers: Hold On
• The SNCC Freedom Singers: We Shall Overcome
• A bunch of videos of Stokely Carmichael

Ella Josephine Baker

Marian Wright Edelman

SNCC FIFTY YEARS LATER

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday every January becomes an occasion for looking back at the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. As the celebration of the King Holiday leads into February and Black History Month, it's a time to consider not only how far we've come but how far we still have to go, and to reflect on some of the milestones in movement history. This year, one of those national and personal milestones is the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

On February 1, 1960, when I was a senior at Spelman College in Atlanta, four black freshmen from North Carolina A&T State University sat in at the Whites-only lunch counter in the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's store. It was just the spark I and so many black youth were waiting for to stand up against the segregation that daily assaulted our dignity and lives. I and thousands of other students were galvanized to strike our blow for freedom, giving birth to the sit-in movement, the formation of SNCC, and a new era of student activism that energized the larger Civil Rights Movement. People often forget that children and youth were major frontline soldiers in the Civil Rights Movement. Little Ruby Bridges in New Orleans and the Little Rock Nine and other young black children desegregated schools across the South, often standing up to howling mobs. They were instrumental in Brown v. Board of Education. Young people coordinated voter registration drives, participated in Freedom Rides testing segregation laws on interstate buses, conducted voter education and other activities during 1964's Freedom Summer in Mississippi including Freedom Schools, and more. My generation was blessed beyond measure to be in the right places at the right times to experience and help bring transforming change to the South and to America.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday every January becomes an occasion for looking back at the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. As the celebration of the King Holiday leads into February and Black History Month, it's a time to consider not only how far we've come but how far we still have to go, and to reflect on some of the milestones in movement history. This year, one of those national and personal milestones is the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

On February 1, 1960, when I was a senior at Spelman College in Atlanta, four black freshmen from North Carolina A&T State University sat in at the Whites-only lunch counter in the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's store. It was just the spark I and so many black youth were waiting for to stand up against the segregation that daily assaulted our dignity and lives. I and thousands of other students were galvanized to strike our blow for freedom, giving birth to the sit-in movement, the formation of SNCC, and a new era of student activism that energized the larger Civil Rights Movement. People often forget that children and youth were major frontline soldiers in the Civil Rights Movement. Little Ruby Bridges in New Orleans and the Little Rock Nine and other young black children desegregated schools across the South, often standing up to howling mobs. They were instrumental in Brown v. Board of Education. Young people coordinated voter registration drives, participated in Freedom Rides testing segregation laws on interstate buses, conducted voter education and other activities during 1964's Freedom Summer in Mississippi including Freedom Schools, and more. My generation was blessed beyond measure to be in the right places at the right times to experience and help bring transforming change to the South and to America.

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(Click to see more on Marches, sit-ins, boycotts and Freedom Rides)

Officers "Suspended" in Jordan Miles Police Brutality Case

Officers get paid vacation in Jordan Miles Police Brutality Case
Wow, when will it end?

Three officers under investigation by the city for allegedly beating a Homewood teen during his arrest last month have been placed on paid administrative leave, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said

A judge has again postponed a hearing for the CAPA High School student who says police officers beat him up during his arrest.

The three accused officers did not show up to testify at the hearing for 18-year-old Jordan Miles, of Homewood.

He was accompanied by members of the Black Political Empowerment Project.

Prosecutors in the case say they need a delay so the FBI can continue its civil rights investigation.

Authorities say the officers allegedly got into a confrontation with Miles back in January after they thought he was carrying a weapon in his pocket. It turned out to be a soda bottle.

"He didn't have any weapons on him," said Reggie Roberts, of the Black Political Empowerment Project. "There were three police officers to take down a 150-pound, thin, young man. Why was that necessary?"