Watch The War We Are Living on PBS. See more from Women War and Peace. If you ask Colombia’s city dwellers and governing political class, they’ll tell you the country’s 40-year-old civil war is over. But The War We Are Living reveals the “other” Colombia, in rural areas far away from the capital, where the [...]
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In a Black History Month special, Democracy Now! airs an extended interview with the legendary pianist and composer Randy Weston. For the past six decades, Weston has been a pioneering jazz musician incorporating the vast rhythmic heritage of Africa. His most famous compositions include, “Little Niles,” “Blue Moses,” and “Hi-Fly,” and his 1960 album, “Uhuru [...] By Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times January 29, 2012 Reporting from Imbaseni, Tanzania — The fugitive shuffles to his computer and begins typing out his will. He is about to turn 71, and it is time. “My life,” he writes, “has been a wild and wicked ride….” All Pete O’Neal has amassed fits on two [...] By Peter Costantini SEATTLE, U.S., Aug 2, 2011 (IPS) – Jean Ronel Noël, a young Haitian engineer, stood in a centuries-old fort on a small island just off Dakar and looked out at the Atlantic through a portal that once led enslaved Africans to the ships of the Middle Passage. “Finally we come to ‘the [...] on Jun 11, 2011 The New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement salute the life of our brother and comrade Geronimo ji Jaga. The life of Geronimo, or “G” as he was affectionately known, represents a freedom fighter that sacrificed and loved Afrikan people and humanity. Geronimo was given the name Elmer [...] “The Black Candle” Trailer, Narrated by Maya Angelou from Dr. Maya Angelou on Vimeo. The Black Candle is a landmark, vibrant documentary film that uses Kwanzaa as a vehicle to explore and celebrate the African-American experience. Narrated by world renowned poet Maya Angelou and directed by award-winning author and filmmaker M.K. Asante, The Black Candle [...] By SIMON ROMERO Published: October 18, 2007 SAN BASILIO DE PALENQUE, Colombia — The residents of this village, founded centuries ago by runaway slaves in the jungle of northern Colombia, eke out their survival from plots of manioc. Pigs wander through dirt roads. The occasional soldier on patrol peeks into houses made of straw, mud [...] Find more videos like this on Adiama Network: Carrying on the Tradition On the Colombian Caribbean Coast, at a distance of one hour from the city of Cartagena, between mountains and swamps, there is a place where, in spite of the passage of time, its inhabitants live guided by African customs, traditions and rites, just [...] Author: SEM Contributor To many it was surprising when Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma decided to give citizenship to the 25 year acting veteran Isaiah Washington after he traced his ancestral roots through DNA to the Mende and Temne people of Sierra Leone. (Isaiah Washington at The Africa Policy Forum) The ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ star [...] By Molara Wood October 10, 2010 01:44AM The Director General of the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation, Tunde Babawale, engaged the press at the recently concluded sixth annual CBAAC International Conference, held in Abuja. With the theme ‘Global Africans, Pan-Africans, Pan-Africanism, Decolonisation and Integration of Africa – Past, Present and Future’ – [...] |
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