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Biz Markie, the ‘Clown Prince of Hip-Hop,’ Dead at 57 “Just a Friend” rapper struggled with health issues related to decade-long battle with Type 2 diabetes DANIEL KREPS & JASON NEWMAN   Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Biz Markie, the pioneering rapper, producer, and beatboxer whose jovial goofiness, boundless, off-kilter creativityContinue Reading

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Bunny Wailer, last surviving founder member of the Wailers, dies aged 73 Reggae artist and three-time Grammy winner found worldwide fame alongside Bob Marley in the early 1970s Signature sound … Bunny Wailer performing in 2016. Photograph: Getty Images   Bunny Wailer, the co-founder and last living member of Jamaican reggaeContinue Reading

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What Is Ayahuasca? Experience, Benefits, and Side Effects What it is Uses Benefits Risks Bottom line You may have heard stories of people traveling to foreign destinations to experience taking Ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew. Typically, these anecdotes tend to focus on the immediate effects that take place during an AyahuascaContinue Reading

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CHEIKH ANTA DIOP (1923-1986) POSTED ONJUNE 14, 2008BY CONTRIBUTED BY: ANNA MICKLIN Cheikh Anta Diop, IFAN laboratory, Dakar, 1976 Photo by Jake Scott, Fair use image Distinguished historian and Pan-Africanist political leader, Cheikh Anta Diop was born in Diourbel, Senegal on December 23, 1933 to a Muslim Wolof family. Part of the peasant class, his family belonged to the African Mouride Islamic sect.Continue Reading

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(1963) MALCOLM X, “RACIAL SEPARATION” POSTED ONJANUARY 22, 2013BY CONTRIBUTED BY: BLACKPAST Malcolm X, Martin Luther King press conference, March 26, 1964 Public Domain photo by Marion S. Trikosko, Courtesy Library of Congress (2003688131) On October 11, 1963, Malcolm X gave a speech at the University of California, Berkeley, in which heContinue Reading

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LL Cool J shines a bright light on racist police brutality as he delivers a rapid-fire rap about George Floyd and other high-profile cases By KEVIN KAYHART FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 03:49 EDT, 1 June 2020 | UPDATED: 13:04 EDT, 1 June 2020 He’s a legendary pioneer of the Rap/Hip-Hop genre who’s never been at aContinue Reading

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  Bob Marley at 70: legend and legacy The reggae superstar would have been 70 this Friday. His friend Vivien Goldman asks how a hard-working activist came to represent feelgood partying, and salutes his enduring influence Vivien Goldman Thu 5 Feb 2015 13.54 ESTLast modified on Mon 3 Dec 2018 10.37 EST  Bob MarleyContinue Reading

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Something Phenomenal: Waking at about 3:40 am? by Lois Wetzel | Jan 1, 2020 | Ascension / Current Changes, Consciousness, Meditation, Spiritual Teachings Waking at 3:40 am and the Initiation Practice: This is interesting. Yes. I DO awaken at about 3:40 am each morning. I get up and go into the living room, lie on the couch, andContinue Reading

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20 of the worst epidemics and pandemics in history By Owen Jarus – Live Science Contributor, All About History March 20, 2020 Plagues and epidemics have ravaged humanity throughout its existence, often changing the course of history. An influenza ward at a U.S. Army Camp Hospital in France during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.Continue Reading

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Beneath Antarctica’s Ice, Intriguing Evidence of Lost Continents By Stephanie Pappas November 13, 2018   Beneath the Antarctic ice lie the remnants of “lost” continents. (Image: © Vipersniper/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A new map reveals the remnants of ancient continents lurking beneath Antarctica’s ice. The map shows that East Antarctica is made up of multipleContinue Reading

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Climate experts call for ‘dangerous’ Michael Moore film to be taken down Planet of the Humans, which takes aim at the green movement, is ‘full of misinformation’ says one distributor Oliver Milman  @olliemilman Tue 28 Apr 2020 08.54 EDTLast modified on Tue 28 Apr 2020 09.28 EDT  A still from Planet of theContinue Reading

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Africa has made many outstanding contributions to world civilization, of which the following are a few selected examples: Despite suffering through the horrific system of slavery, sharecropping and the Jim Crow era, early African-Americans made countless contributions to science and technology (1). This lineage and culture of achievement, though, emergedContinue Reading

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The Devastation of Black Wall Street Tulsa, Oklahoma. 1921. A wave of racial violence destroys an affluent African-American community, seen as a threat to white-dominated American capitalism. Smoke billowing over Tulsa, Oklahoma during 1921 race riots Library of Congress By: Kimberly Fain July 5, 2017 In 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District,Continue Reading

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Wikipedia’s definition: Fop became a pejorative term for a foolish man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are coxcomb,[1] fribble, popinjay (meaning ‘parrot’), fashion-monger, and ninny. Macaroni was another term of the 18th century more specifically concerned with fashion. The pejorative term today carries the connotation of a person, usuallyContinue Reading

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Uncle Tom Was a Man Who Refused to Beat Black Women We need to question the things we take as fact, this is an ongoing process. Uncle Tom was originally a character from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. As Wikipedia outlines: “Stowe’s melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slaveryContinue Reading

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DR. JOHN HENRIK CLARKE — JANUARY 1, 1915 – JULY 16, 1998″A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.” ~John Henrik Clarke “I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspectContinue Reading

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Exploration of the tradition of violence in the United States of America, drawing on the history of invading settlers and native peoples, frontier outlaws and modern-day murderers, racist violence, the urban underclass, and domestic abuse. From the punishment of defenseless Native Americans by Christopher Columbus, to the domestic and raciallyContinue Reading

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Peter Joseph is an American born Musician, Filmmaker, Author and Activist; best known worldwide as the creator of the controversial and award winning “Zeitgeist Film Series” and founder of the “The Zeitgeist Movement”, a social sustainability advocacy group which currently operates in over 70 countries. He is also the curatorContinue Reading

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Let America Be America Again By Langston Hughes Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream theContinue Reading

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In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. ~ Roger Allen Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. ~ George Bernard Shaw There’s nothingContinue Reading

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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. ~Thomas JeffersonContinue Reading

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“Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision making which replace the principles of instincts. he has to have a frame of orientation which permits him to organize a consistent picture of the worldContinue Reading

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Editor’s note: John P. Avlon is a senior political columnist for The Daily Beast and author of the new book “Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America.” New York (CNN) — Newt Gingrich called President Obama “the most radical president in American history” at the Southern Republican Leadership ConferenceContinue Reading