Originally By Herb BoydManaging Editor, TBWT (The Black World Today) and posted there on Monday, 26 January 2004 “We lost the twin towers of African spirituality and intellectual development,” Dr. Leonard Jeffries said of Dr. Jacob H. Carruthers, Jr. and the Rev. Dr. Ishakamusa Barashango. “Jacob was one of our leading scholars and I was … More Transition of Twin Towers of Afrocentric Thought
Michael Jackson “Remembers the Time” when we were Kings and Queens. Reminiscent of one of Hollywood’s old biblical epics, Michael Jackson chose ancient Egypt as the setting for his exotic and lavish new video Remember the Time. The upbeat song entertains while the story and setting recall a time when Blacks ruled one of civilization’s … More Michael Jackson “Remembers the Time” when we were Kings and Queens.
In July 1973 Cheikh Anta Diop published a paper on the pigmentation of the Ancient Egyptians (Kemetians). In the paper he established melanin levels as a fundamental racial characteristic and that there exist laboratory methods to measure melanin levels for both dead and living beings. One issue presented in opposition to the future study of … More Skin Optical Characterization Devices
With all the churches you got and all the schools you got and all the governments you got you supposed to have a better planet than this. Well then man has failed…spiritually, educationally, governmentally, he’s failed. Well then he should be a good sport and say, “I give up, I need help.” Well I’m right … More Sun Ra: “You’re supposed to have a better planet than this.”
The distinctly negroid characters of the Cro-Magnon of Spain, the nigritic osteology of the first Cro-Magnon men of France, the late appearance of this white, the still later one of yellow (the man of Chancelade ) to the Magdalenian 15,000 years ago, so many facts that did not receive a rational explanation, become more intelligible to us in the light of this hypothesis. … More The Melanin Dosage Test by Cheikh Anta Diop
To read the histories of the world, peoples and races written by white men, would make the Negro feel and believe that he never amounted to anything in the creation. History is written with prejudices, likes and dislikes; and there has never been a white historian who ever wrote with any true love or feeling … More History and the Negro by Marcus Garvey
Herodotus Book II Chapter 104 [1] For it is plain to see that the Colchians are Egyptians; and what I say, I myself noted before I heard it from others. When it occurred to me, I inquired of both peoples; and the Colchians remembered the Egyptians better than the Egyptians remembered the Colchians; [2] the … More Herodotus says it is plain to see the Egyptians are dark skinned…
In the book Stolen Legacy by George G.M. James the following is found on page 25. Here is explained the ethical system known as the Egyptian Mystery School. In the Egyptian Mysteries the Neophyte was required to manifest the following soul attributes: (1) Control of thought and (2) Control of action, the combination of which, … More Keyamsha and the Reclamation of our Stolen Legacy
He had a personal net worth of $400 billion! That makes him the richest person ever in the history of planet earth. Who was he? The person who we all need to know is none other than Mansa Musa I of Mali. He was the tenth Mansa or Emperor of the Empire of Mali in West … More Richest person in world history? An African named Mansa Musa I of the Mali Empire
History, it’s been said, is biography. yet some of the world’s greatest biographies, Black biographies are all but lost to history. Sundiata. Mansa Musa. Sunni Ali. Askia Muhammad. Not exactly household names, but they were honored in their time as leaders of empires. Yet it appears their honors have vanished along with their empires. But … More Before there was American History there Was African History
