Friday, March 8, 2013

Celebrating Black History All Year Long ~ March 2013

~~Celebrating Black History All Year Long~~

Birth: Zensi Miriam Makeba
Born: March 4, 1932
Died: November 8, 2008
Place: Prospect Township, South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa
She's Dubbed: Mother Africa

Connections:
Harry Belafonte: VIDEO
Paul Simon: VIDEO
John F. Kennedy: VIDEO
Nelson Mandela: VIDEO
Stokely Carmichael: VIDEO

Fact:
In 1966, Makeba received the Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording together with Harry Belafonte for An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba (LISTEN NOW! 32.49min.). The album dealt with the political plight of black South Africans under apartheid, and it was one of the first American albums to present traditional Zulu, Sotho and Swahili songs in an authentic setting.

Birth: Harold George Belafonte
Born: March 1, 1927
Place: Harlem, New York
He's Dubbed: King of Calypso

Connections:

Dorothy Dandrige: VIDEO

Martin Luther King, Jr.: VIDEO

Miriam Makeba: VIDEO
...And Many More.

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St. Patrick's Day Entertainment

Leprechaun: In The Hood

Warwick Davis, Ice-T. Three rap artists in the hood, seeking fame and needing money, break into Mack Daddy's house to steal a lot of jewelry. But when they take a medallion off an ugly old statue, it transforms into a bloodthirsty leprechaun. 2000/color/91 min/R/widescreen.

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Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha Hood

Warwick Davis, Shiek Mahmun-Bey, Tangi Miller, Sticky Fingaz. The evil Leprechaun goes back to the hood seeking revenge against those who have stolen his treasure. 2003/color/87 min/R/widescreen.

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Friday, February 1, 2013

Celebrating Black History All Year Long ~ February 2013

~~Celebrating Black History All Year Long~~

44th President 2nd Inaugural 2013

Barack H. Obama

First African American Family

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African American Muslim minister and civil rights activist Malcolm X was shot dead 48 years ago.

The 39-year-old was gunned down in front of a crowd of hundreds – including several of his own children – as he began a speech at Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965.

Former Nation Of Islam leader and civil rights activist El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (aka Malcolm X and Malcolm Little) poses for a portrait on February 16, 1965, in Rochester, New York. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

American civil rights leader Malcolm X (1925 - 1965) sits and meets with Prince (later King) Faisal al-Saud the regent of Saudi Arabia (1906 - 1975) during a visit as a guest of state and as a pilgrim to the Muslim holy city of Mecca, April 1964. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Getty Images)

Cassius Marcellus Clay (Muhammad Ali) with Black Muslim leader Malcolm X at 125th St. and Seventh Ave. (Photo by John Peodincuk/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

American civil rights activist Malcolm X (1925 - 1965) speaks at a podium during a Black Muslim rally in Washington DC, circa 1963. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Photo of Malcolm X (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

A Painted Wall In St. Louis, Missouri, Displays The Painted Faces Of Muhammad Ali, Toussaint Louverture, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. And Perhaps Haile Selassie, In The 1970'S. The Inscription Reads : 'Up, You Mighty Race'. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

July 1964 portrait shows Black Muslim leader Malcolm X. (AP-PHOTO)

Talmadge Hayer, aka Thomas Hagan, in Jewish Memorial Hospital after killing of Malcolm X on February 21, 1965 in New York City. Hayer was wounded in leg fellowing shooting of Malcolm. (Photo by Judd Mehlman/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

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“We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.”

Seneca Falls

March On Selma

Stonewall Uprising

CHAPTER 1

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