by Linn Washington, Jr. Mass Black incarceration is a kind of “punitive backlash” against the gains of the Sixties, and only a “a major social movement” can challenge it. Nowhere on the planet is mass imprisonment more entrenched than in the United States. “The U.S. imprisons more than South Africa did under apartheid.” At every [...]
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Find more videos like this on Adiama Network: Carrying on the TraditionSegment from the powerful documentary: Goin’ to Chicago – Interview subjects recall their lives in the South as members of sharecropping families. Sharecropping was a system by which landowners rented land to farmers in exchange for a percentage of their crop. The life of [...] BBC NEWS| Africa Page last updated at 09:55 GMT, Thursday, 12 November 2009 Traditional African rulers should apologise for the role they played in the slave trade, a Nigerian rights group has said in a letter to chiefs. “We cannot continue to blame the white men, as Africans particularly the traditional rulers, are not blameless,” [...] TRAILER FOR THE UPCOMING DOCUMENTARY DETAILING PRESENT DAY SLAVERY/PEONAGE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA… President Obama in Ghana at the Cape Coast Dungeons pt 2-2 – More related videos from Asterpix Anderson Cooper of CNN AC 360 talks about African Americans returning home to Ghana. He interviews Seestah IMAHKUS owner of One Africa Guest House (www.oneafricaghana.com) a few miles from Cape Coast & Elmina Dungeons. Embedded video from CNN Video Salaga Market Here is Salaga, a market town founded by the arab trader bature in the late 18th century. In its day, one of the largest market centers in all of West Afrika…connecting Hausa, Mossi, Dagbon, and Asante kingdoms. From far and near, thousands upon thousands upon thousands arrive here to buy, sell and trade [...] |
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