Update 05/20/2008
Series 5: History of Africa - The Bible and the Gun.
Series 5 of the African History video documentary discusses racism and slavery, and the influence of the early explorers and western religion on the continent.
An estimated 15 million Africans were taken from their homes to serve as slaves to Europeans. Africa was looked [...]

Documentary on Maroons of Brazil to Hold World Theatrical Premiere in New York “Quilombo Country,” the award-winning film about Brazilian villages founded by escaped and rebel slaves, will hold its World Theatrical Premiere on Saturday, the 23rd of February [Black History Month] at 8pm at the Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave. (2nd St.) in [...]

Ghana won its independence on March 6, 1957, it followed Sudan, which gained its independence on January 1, 1956. “Why does the western press not acknowledge that Sudan gained its independence prior to Ghana’s? The point is this: Citing Ghana as the first “Sub-Saharan” African nation to gain independence is to construct a social and geo-political world view that perpetuates the disallowance of African peoples the ability to define themselves. It is also indicative of how western powers use words to create and maintain hegemonies.

An African composer and author who grew up as a house slave in an aristocratic household in Greenwich, England.

Long before I traced my African Ancestry, I had a love and hate affair with my name. I can’t deny the pride I felt at the myriad of family reunion’s I’ve attended over the years…all of us gathered to celebrate our family, our history (the little we knew), our ability to come together no matter [...]

I have someone to thank for guiding me back to solid ground. One evening, I watched in wonder as Dr. Henry Louis Gates talked about the process of DNA ancestry tracing, part of a PBS series entitled “African American Lives”. This new technology would at last provide the keys to my ancestral past.

Egypt put the mummy of the Tutankhamun on display in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings on Sunday, giving visitors their first chance to see the face of a ruler who died more than 3,000 years ago.
In the dimly lit burial chamber workmen removed the gilded lid of Tutankhamun’s mummy case and then [...]