Olmec Social Club Of Mexico: Americans In Addition To Africans Earlier Spain's Colonization Of The Americas

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvcD54qqHgN5aRj1ZK6hqbBzNdN68sp656HaVKfQaTBNdJTky1JwB5k2kuB8N8Dv0Nw1dhw4Vuab_1jKGGvqYZWvzmbNjjSfjtFUZ4gGp0pKun9_ze_GgczaAvmPns3GP1xjeg6cqn890/s1600/Cabeza+olmeca+olmec+head.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvcD54qqHgN5aRj1ZK6hqbBzNdN68sp656HaVKfQaTBNdJTky1JwB5k2kuB8N8Dv0Nw1dhw4Vuab_1jKGGvqYZWvzmbNjjSfjtFUZ4gGp0pKun9_ze_GgczaAvmPns3GP1xjeg6cqn890/s320/Cabeza+olmeca+olmec+head.jpg" wt="true" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Olmec Head at La Venta Park, Villahermosa. Tabasco, Mexico</strong></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> The Olmec culture was a pre-Columbian social club inside the heartland of the Americas, operating every bit a kingdom c. 1200 BC to 400 BC. The Olmec social club included the electrical flow geographic regions of <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=gaspar-yanga-1570-african-slave-revolt">Mexico</a>, parts of what is right away the United States' Colorado, Texas, California, together with into Canada. The Olmec existed earlier the Maya, Toltec, together with Aztec civilizations. The early on query of Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, every bit laid upwards out inwards his book <em>They Came Before Columbus,</em> confirmed the <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=gaspar-yanga-1570-african-slave-revolt" target="_blank">Kmt-Nubian</a> (<a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=gaspar-yanga-1570-african-slave-revolt" target="_blank">Nilotic African</a>) presence amongst the Olmec through reports of carbon dating skeletal bones together with iconographic stones to 948-680 BCE.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM0X_lUMvFz2NQbCglNl0hAq1BG3UcYtPNndUVkIZUb6VOLv4-uYAyuq8r8O9V4sp71fydH_kMO3qu9RS0aC9QReiJNqBfrM8_aqJt2yuM1vKCpE6PCv7wp8MryUOqsuB4ivWp0OujjmQ/s1600/Olmec+Civilization.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM0X_lUMvFz2NQbCglNl0hAq1BG3UcYtPNndUVkIZUb6VOLv4-uYAyuq8r8O9V4sp71fydH_kMO3qu9RS0aC9QReiJNqBfrM8_aqJt2yuM1vKCpE6PCv7wp8MryUOqsuB4ivWp0OujjmQ/s320/Olmec+Civilization.png" wt="true" /></a></div> <br /> The rock heads that rest at Olmec furnish snap shots of the Kemet-Nubians that sailed from the Nile valley portion from the horn of Africa to non alone Europe together with Asia, only to the Americas earlier the Christian-era. This documentary provides alive footage of Dr. Ivan Van Sertima's on-site query inwards the Olmec regions of the Americas, such every bit the Olmec working capital alphabetic quality of La Venta, Tabasco, Mexico. <br /> <br /> Africans inwards America are described past times the local historian/tour direct inwards this documentary every bit a priesthood class. Dr. Van Sertima states that they were amongst the ruling elite of the Olmec, living amongst Mesoamerican native societies inwards relative harmony. <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9F-k4fDjeHWR1TZP38m6rZUSic4tywJEJA9xCcawcEJre1mTZQQq6su0pMmf_oXvJZM53N9KDc6FeprocIPg-MTIayg9SRPjpBfzH2AVdFzRKHd1LobjsOXJP309qylRJ6Kr4sUVBKjs/s1600/33571_1674719468224_1244556603_31885886_2410622_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9F-k4fDjeHWR1TZP38m6rZUSic4tywJEJA9xCcawcEJre1mTZQQq6su0pMmf_oXvJZM53N9KDc6FeprocIPg-MTIayg9SRPjpBfzH2AVdFzRKHd1LobjsOXJP309qylRJ6Kr4sUVBKjs/s320/33571_1674719468224_1244556603_31885886_2410622_n.jpg" width="297" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>BHH blogger inwards front end of 1 of the 2 Olmec heads featured at LACMA's exhibition </b></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>"Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico" inwards Oct 2010 inwards Los Angeles</b></span></span></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /> </span><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i>Further references</i></b>: </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr. Ivan Van Sertima bully archaeological together with history documentary serial <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IywJ1DGuecY">HERE</a> or at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IywJ1DGuecY.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/They-Came-Before-Columbus-Presence/dp/0812968174?ie=UTF8&tag=blachisthero-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence inwards Ancient America</a><span class="Apple-style-span"><img alt="Columbian social club inside the heartland of Olmec Society of Mexico: Americans together with Africans Before Spain's Colonization of the Americas" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=blachisthero-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0812968174" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span>, by <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-style: normal;">Ivan Van Sertima (2003)</span></i></span></li> </ul> </div> </div>

Olmec Social Club Of Mexico: Americans In Addition To Africans Earlier Spain's Colonization Of The Americas

Olmec Head at La Venta Park, Villahermosa. Tabasco, Mexico The Olmec culture was a pre-Columbian social club inside the heartland of ...

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Langston Hughes: The Long Tradition Of Dark Poets

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic4mCBqhPdNgzSRpxNzrKQUPRteZD9ZHFVEO8CRJdA_ryQCfbFi4xsMfoUdPost9bcJbCKkhb9N9FHJZ4tXw34x_G38XAjStc80t8YMku36LP-bdI-DZXAm5L_Gg9e7etdJO1v9SGdbms/s1600/hughes+langston.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic4mCBqhPdNgzSRpxNzrKQUPRteZD9ZHFVEO8CRJdA_ryQCfbFi4xsMfoUdPost9bcJbCKkhb9N9FHJZ4tXw34x_G38XAjStc80t8YMku36LP-bdI-DZXAm5L_Gg9e7etdJO1v9SGdbms/s320/hughes+langston.jpg" wt="true" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> Langston Hughes (James Mercer Langston Hughes) was born Feb 1, 1902 inwards Joplin, Missouri to James Nathaniel Hughes together with his married adult woman Caroline Mercer Langston, a schoolhouse teacher. Hughes became a swell African American poet, brusque flush writer, novelist, together with columnist. Along alongside such scribes every bit Claude McKay together with W.E.B. Du Bois, Hughes' industrial plant had a swell influence on the Harlem Renaissance inwards the USA together with the Négritude crusade inwards French Republic together with francophone Africa together with the Caribbeans. Brother Hughes died May 22, 1967. <br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQO482qgSPU6dVapAqGSRLcLKCHyBUYT3hR5L4Q8dzPKminE0dFL2YEMEG1D-j-_dPxcYYPtFdnxB-roz1Qc1muvlGXfcvae4pePlETqtktpwMTe5tVD_MjvIraHFWuBMbwijJeRWlVvU/s1600/hughes+Meschrabpam%27s_American_Negro_Film_Group.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQO482qgSPU6dVapAqGSRLcLKCHyBUYT3hR5L4Q8dzPKminE0dFL2YEMEG1D-j-_dPxcYYPtFdnxB-roz1Qc1muvlGXfcvae4pePlETqtktpwMTe5tVD_MjvIraHFWuBMbwijJeRWlVvU/s1600/hughes+Meschrabpam's_American_Negro_Film_Group.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><blockquote> <span style="font-size: x-small;">In this picture, standing pump right, is Hughes as fellow member of the Meschrabpam's American Negro Film Group, includes writer Dorothy West (seated right), </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">on board the Europa on June 17, 1932.</span></blockquote> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <blockquote> <b><span style="font-size: large;">The Negro Mother, </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>a poesy form past times Langston Hughes</i></span></b></blockquote> <blockquote> <span style="font-size: small;">Children, I come upwards dorsum today </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">To tell yous a flush of the long black agency </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">That I had to climb, that I had to know </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">In guild that the race mightiness alive together with grow. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Look at my appear upwards -- black every bit the nighttime -- </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Yet shining similar the Sun alongside love's truthful light. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I am the black daughter who crossed the cherry bounding main </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Carrying inwards my trunk the seed of the free. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I am the adult woman who worked inwards the plain </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Bringing the cotton fiber together with the corn to yield. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I am the 1 who labored every bit a slave, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Beaten together with mistreated for the run that I gave -- </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Children sold away from me, I'm hubby sold, too. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">No safety, no love, no honour was I due.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Three hundred years inwards the deepest South: </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">But God topographic point a vocal together with a prayer inwards my mouth. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">God topographic point a dream similar steel inwards my soul. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Now, through my children, I'm reaching the goal. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Now, through my children, immature together with free, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I realized the approbation human activity to me. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I couldn't read then. I couldn't write. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I had nothing, dorsum in that place inwards the night. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes, the valley was filled alongside tears, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">But I kept trudging on through the lonely years. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes, the route was hot alongside the sun, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">But I had to proceed on till my run was done: </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I had to proceed on! No stopping for me -- </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I was the seed of the coming Free.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I nourished the dream that cypher could smother </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Deep inwards my thorax -- the Negro mother. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I had solely hope together with thence , merely immediately through you, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Dark ones of today, my dreams must come upwards true: </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">All yous black children inwards the Blue Planet out there, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Remember my sweat, my pain, my despair. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Remember my years, heavy alongside sorrow -- </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">And brand of those years a torch for tomorrow. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Make of my top a route to the calorie-free </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Out of the darkness, the ignorance, the night. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Lift high my banner out of the dust. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Stand similar complimentary men supporting my trust. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Believe inwards the right, permit none force yous back. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Remember the whip together with the slaver's track. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Remember how the potent inwards care together with strife </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Still bar yous the way, together with deny yous life -- </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">But march ever forward, breaking downwardly bars. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Look ever upward at the Sun together with the stars. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Oh, my black children, may my dreams together with my prayers </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Impel yous forever upwards the swell stairs -- </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">For I volition last alongside yous till no white blood brother </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Dares proceed downwardly the children of the Negro Mother.</span></blockquote> <br /> <b><span style="font-size: large;">DEMOCRACY</span></b><br /> <br /> Democracy volition non come<br /> Today, this year<br />         Nor ever<br /> Through compromise together with fear.<br /> <br /> I create got every bit much right<br /> As the other beau has<br />        To stand<br /> On my 2 feet<br /> And ain the land.<br /> <br /> I tire thence of hearing people say,<br /> Let things accept their course.<br /> Tomorrow is roughly other day.<br /> I produce non require my freedom<br />        When I'm dead.<br /> I cannot alive on tomorrow's <br /> bread.<br />           Freedom<br />           Is a potent seed<br />           Planted<br />           In a swell need.<br />           I alive here, too.<br />           I desire freedom<br />           Just every bit you.<br /> <br /> - Langston Hughes<br /> <br /> <br /></div> <object height="315" width="560"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/hnpItYHdP8Q?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/hnpItYHdP8Q?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div>

Langston Hughes: The Long Tradition Of Dark Poets

Langston Hughes (James Mercer Langston Hughes) was born Feb 1, 1902 inwards Joplin, Missouri to James Nathaniel Hughes together with h...

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Herman Hennink Monkau: Surinamese Of African Descent Inwards Holland

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDZdpNCyUQ6A4vfYf3EVJTGQtAr_sqUugiG8P6k6ydexUo_xSl5CmfntJbjNkLJhEAFDQ_z27eKmhkkRcbqZ-fVB1hGcWczaMH0fTR6oMzvaxUEpdKA2gTwVPIkRdye8HRH76dwapPxIQ/s320/HENNINK+MonkauHermanHennink.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" wt="true" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image:  Book embrace of <i style="text-align: justify;">De kleurling, </i>by writer Herman Hennink Monkau </span><br /> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /> </span></td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Surinamese of African descent oft had nifty expectations when moving to The Netherlands. These expectations were non ever realized inward the initiatory off or instant generation. In <i>De kleurling</i>, Dutch-born writer Herman Hennink Monkau writes of the sense of a initiatory off in addition to instant generation Suriname trouble solid unit of measurement inward The Netherlands. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The alter inward conditions was the initiatory off adjustment for early on Surinamese immigrants to post-colonial Europe. Monkau gives exceptional attending to the instant adjustment felt yesteryear those early on immigrants seeking paradise inward The Netherlands: a Dutch-style racism targeted at immigrants of African-descent described yesteryear commentators as a kind of tragic comedy. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The novel's backdrop is a Jazz-infused Holland at the start of the 1930s. While the characters are by in addition to large Surinamese in addition to Dutch, Monkau manages to delicately interweave into the new the 17th century slave history of Suriname's <i>Joden Savanna</i> (<i><a href="http://www.kulanu.org/suriname/amongmaroons.php">jodensavanne</a></i> or Jewish Savanna)-- transplanted Portuguese Jewry from Brazil. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">At this juncture the reader sees Suriname, a pocket-sized province located along the northeast coast of South America. Sharing a southern edge amongst Brazil, inward 1664, a large grouping of mainly Portuguese Jews migrated or were banished (depending on the historical account) from Brazil in addition to started sugar-cane plantations at <i>Joden Savanna</i>, Suriname. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Three years later, inward 1667, the Dutch swapped/traded New Amsterdam (known similar a shot every bit New York inward the USA) amongst the English linguistic communication territory of Suriname. Nearly 2 hundred years later, inward 1863, <a href="http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/stedman/stedman.html">slavery</a> was abolished inward Suriname. Migration of native Surinamese to the former Dutch colony in Europe followed inward the subsequent years after independence from The Netherlands - thus <i>De kleurling</i>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw1sSq8qJntLWFAFHLM9zSVcXPA1AxgEPhJSb3HzN_b1wnB0xZuC-zwrXTibgGDFVdqUaX-3csBONyYAnqwHTtv0c22yfmEWshiH6sNCVExaxTTJkZuvtDWcLD9Htq5FCtJwVzo0w6tb8/s1600/suriname.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw1sSq8qJntLWFAFHLM9zSVcXPA1AxgEPhJSb3HzN_b1wnB0xZuC-zwrXTibgGDFVdqUaX-3csBONyYAnqwHTtv0c22yfmEWshiH6sNCVExaxTTJkZuvtDWcLD9Htq5FCtJwVzo0w6tb8/s320/suriname.png" wt="true" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Location of Suriname inward South America</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">About the Author:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Herman Hennink Monkau was born inward Amsterdam. His father is native to Suriname in addition to his woman raise is Dutch. In 1975, Monkau traveled to his father's native Suriname were he successfully skillful civil technology scientific discipline drafting in Paramaribo and wrote every bit a journalist nether the pseudonym “Bakra” from the region. His columns were published in the <i>Het Parool</i> publication betwixt 1983 to 1986. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Monkau moved from Suriname to the California portion of the U.S.A. for a fourth dimension before moving to Italy. Long since moving dorsum to his nativity metropolis of Amsterdam, Monkau published <i>De kleurling</i> inward August 2006. It was published through the Prometheus majority publishers inward the Dutch language. The english speaking globe is waiting on a translation.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Monkau is best known professionally every bit an industrial designer who has worked out of Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt, Cosenza (Italy), in addition to Los Angeles. After concluding speaking amongst Monkau inward Amsterdam, he stated that his virtually recent writing projection is a biography of the Suriname-born dark inventor January Ernst Matzelinger.</span></div></div>

Herman Hennink Monkau: Surinamese Of African Descent Inwards Holland

Image:  Book embrace of  De kleurling,  by writer Herman Hennink Monkau  Surinamese of African descent oft had nifty expectations when ...

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From Malcolm Niggling To Malcolm 10 To El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeuoSEyjSnyW4CAshCKjBsRqy29tmz0xyPFzCSaFdBJXupuEvfrQ5Ggk0wDrkTHsuRFu-bFZe6RNWqiAYRihY1fmiuJgAYQav5aRDVYQSjB1CerLayeCrkQlx3nzqYHATGn8M7LjVL5gI/s1600/Photo+of+Malcolm+X+in+March+1964+Public+Domain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeuoSEyjSnyW4CAshCKjBsRqy29tmz0xyPFzCSaFdBJXupuEvfrQ5Ggk0wDrkTHsuRFu-bFZe6RNWqiAYRihY1fmiuJgAYQav5aRDVYQSjB1CerLayeCrkQlx3nzqYHATGn8M7LjVL5gI/s1600/Photo+of+Malcolm+X+in+March+1964+Public+Domain.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Malcolm X inward 1964.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-size: large;">The nifty Black leader, debater together with speaker, usually known every bit Malcolm X (English: ˈmælkəm ˈɛks) was born May 19, 1925 every bit Malcolm Little together with died Feb 21, 1965 every bit El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Arabic: الحاجّ مالك الشباز‎).  His woman parent was Louise Little (maiden nurture Louise Langdon Norton), born inward the Caribbean Area island of Grenada, British West Indies, at the Grenadines' southern tip. His virile someone parent was born inward Reynolds, Georgia (Taylor County) and became a Baptist minister and <a href="http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/502.html">Garveyism</a> organizer under the leadership of the Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey.</span><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Who Taught You to Hate Yourself?" a May 5, 1962 speech</b></div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Malcolm X inward Los Angeles, California</b></div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <object height="315" width="420"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/gRSgUTWffMQ?version=3&hl=en_US"> </param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> </param> <embed src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/gRSgUTWffMQ?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div> </div>

From Malcolm Niggling To Malcolm 10 To El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

Malcolm X inward 1964. The nifty Black leader, debater together with speaker, usually known every bit Malcolm X (English: ˈmælkəm ˈɛ...

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The Queen Of Sheba: Ethiopia's Queen Makeda

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw1GcAIxGQRdKNeduHOTwtsr7FFgfuyN_thTGgG020xtdQWCDEllD68s0-FlRgUor0eL_yJoHNGJtlntXYdUnFb0fWgNTfX1RRYxe-XBqD7t1OAPQ2WuEOBHOwD6iQmM1Ea2Cwx-Sa0CQ/s320/Queen+of+Sheba.jpg" /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The Queen of Sheba from Ethiopian fresco (c.1100s-1200s), Lalibela, Ethiopia. Zagwe dynasty.</b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Queen of Sheba</b></span>  </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> (also known equally Makeda, Makebah-Tamar, Malikat Saba; </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Ge'ez: Nigist Saba; Hebrew: מלכת שבא‎; </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Malkat Shva; Arabic: ملكة سبأ‎) </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> According to the <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312167938/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0312167938&linkCode=as2&tag=manipubloffiw-20&linkId=4JFJZLDPYIT7ZOMD" target="_blank">Kebra Negast</a> (Kebra Nagast, Ge'ez: kəbrä nägäst, </i>"the Glory of Kings"), a nearly 700 yr onetime text from Ethiopic antiquity, the majestic describe of piece of occupation solid unit of measurement of the Nile percentage are offsprings of The Queen of Sheba, named Makeda (mākidā) in the Ethiopian account, which translates literally to "pillow." </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSuiX_U6TtplwRoDLizExEzPk-qtgMCuqw3junKtiy3Y5zbyxJgCnHBEUKSJw5EDOY32P0ihDoA6A4_TaJ54_oIT37ROQF-MfgCKuigpya_DTQY2B3uLWmrd0ZEE1v4LM81ierSc0vVVg/s1600/sheeba+solomon+relief.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSuiX_U6TtplwRoDLizExEzPk-qtgMCuqw3junKtiy3Y5zbyxJgCnHBEUKSJw5EDOY32P0ihDoA6A4_TaJ54_oIT37ROQF-MfgCKuigpya_DTQY2B3uLWmrd0ZEE1v4LM81ierSc0vVVg/s320/sheeba+solomon+relief.jpg" wt="true" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Batisterio san giovanni Florence (Italy), Salomon meets the Queen of Saba, </i></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>on the Paradise Door of the Florence Baptistry</i></span></div> <div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Menelik I (Menyelek I) (also known equally <i>Ebna la-Hakim</i>, <i>Ibn Al-Hakim</i>, "Son of the Wise") was the entirely offspring of The Queen of Sheba of the ancient Kingdom of Sheba / Axumite Kingdom. King Solomon of ancient State of Israel was his father.  The Queen of Sheba in addition to King Solomon are both referenced inside the Christian, Hebrew, in addition to Qur'anic (Koran) Biblical accounts (See Table of Nations (Genesis 10:7)). </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxTWlFxp7-6xIu5B9m1y_8WnRZ1aqTmN0kdNHxQL58VNaHcWOsLtrMG12HND8HDqH-N7d668aI54m209fi8vAiMYJbHLsPcG8Ln4z3dFqrARBUhBaW_edH9Zswf1xUc76biUd8vG3d1SM/s1600/Kingdom+of+Axum+500+AD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxTWlFxp7-6xIu5B9m1y_8WnRZ1aqTmN0kdNHxQL58VNaHcWOsLtrMG12HND8HDqH-N7d668aI54m209fi8vAiMYJbHLsPcG8Ln4z3dFqrARBUhBaW_edH9Zswf1xUc76biUd8vG3d1SM/s320/Kingdom+of+Axum+500+AD.jpg" width="320" wt="true" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Map shows Nile percentage communities, including </span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Kingdom of Axum (Aksum) cir. 565 A.D.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN8P6IrAY-l-L0MTkLG0l-uOQsNKXhHpEDk8gqvXFukwrgG-DIwr7W-Cj-jkiUL-0Oh3_1T8gb-Ic8g26qJsB0RQDLq2aPw8Oo2HFuoqDRZfYp99yfHovPISf5pP6wSN4OdNxaVLyuqlw/s1600/tigray.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN8P6IrAY-l-L0MTkLG0l-uOQsNKXhHpEDk8gqvXFukwrgG-DIwr7W-Cj-jkiUL-0Oh3_1T8gb-Ic8g26qJsB0RQDLq2aPw8Oo2HFuoqDRZfYp99yfHovPISf5pP6wSN4OdNxaVLyuqlw/s320/tigray.gif" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> This East African kingdom at historical points may at to the lowest degree convey included parts of areas of Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, in addition to Yemen. This early on kingdom of antiquity, nether the historical throne of Sheba, may convey reached equally far S equally Zanzibar (“San-Sheba” or regard Persian: "Zangi-bar" alongside "Zangi" important "Black" in addition to "Bar" important "the") inwards Tanzania. See too Kemet [keh-MET translates "Black Land").</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiRHsYYtV6FNm5U2w7rsUe0zpZHaPMMZpCn3i-Y0J6WwjOUAibWyKmFIfgcxDf2kVYjHlELCq4DzGDeraqQhzBdqVgVu8iurCJ37yroz6bXx2zEC1AylNVPdkAIe3YOmenXt365bWLxhA/s1600/Queen+of+Sheba+Kebra_Nagast.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiRHsYYtV6FNm5U2w7rsUe0zpZHaPMMZpCn3i-Y0J6WwjOUAibWyKmFIfgcxDf2kVYjHlELCq4DzGDeraqQhzBdqVgVu8iurCJ37yroz6bXx2zEC1AylNVPdkAIe3YOmenXt365bWLxhA/s320/Queen+of+Sheba+Kebra_Nagast.jpg" wt="true" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Kebra Negast</i>, available inwards mass shape today</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;">The Kebra Nagast is an describe of piece of occupation organisation human relationship originally written inwards the Ge'ez linguistic communication (Semetic/Ethiopic/Nilotic) and recounts the origins of the paternal Solomonic describe of the Emperors of Ethiopia. The Kebra Nagast is considered yesteryear the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in addition to Rastafarian communities inwards the Africas equally an inspired in addition to accurate historical describe of piece of occupation organisation human relationship of how The Queen of Sheba met King Solomon in addition to nearly how the Ark of the Covenant came to the Axum (Aksum, Aksûmite, Tigray-Tigrinya Province) percentage of electrical current hateful solar daytime Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in addition to Eritrea, upon The Queen's provide from ancient State of Israel alongside the manful somebody child, Menelik I.</span> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> According to the Kebra Nagast, Menelik I became the outset Imperial ruler of Ethiopia, the outset of a describe of Aksûmite Kings. The translation of the ancient text records of the Kebra Nagast too incorporate accounts of the early on creation stories of the people of this region, which today's scientific discipline definitively concludes is the birthplace of humankind in addition to human civilizations.  </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> It is said that Menelik's father, King Solomon, gave the Ark of the Covenant to The Queen of Sheba  to hold upward delivered equally his prayer that "the New Jerusalem" would have its throne at Axum. In 1967, Edward Ullendorff stated inwards his famous lectures that "[t]he Kebra Nagast is non but a literary work, but -- equally the Old Testament to the Hebrews or the Qur'an to the Arabs -- it is the repository of Ethiopian national in addition to religious feelings."</div> <br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5O1HUUMV1FLxBA6-ypXHBaHLljuMouLlvdAT822QRLX-NXHXq6uCqDBb-mRuvMKRIMfhdFwOFOCIbFiZ0-zsV3cxqR11dfn1kbDmpSkgS8fq0IQCbWMWCg0z7b1vRDfKrtDpyqS0QsHs/s1600/Axum+Art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5O1HUUMV1FLxBA6-ypXHBaHLljuMouLlvdAT822QRLX-NXHXq6uCqDBb-mRuvMKRIMfhdFwOFOCIbFiZ0-zsV3cxqR11dfn1kbDmpSkgS8fq0IQCbWMWCg0z7b1vRDfKrtDpyqS0QsHs/s320/Axum+Art.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo of an Ethiopian antiquity art</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;">  <span style="text-align: justify;">The Queen of Sheba made the northern metropolis of Axum abode later returning from her merchandise journey to Israel. According to Ethiopian tradition, Menelik I in addition to the Ark of the Covenant was brought with Makeda. Many believe Haile Selassie I, born Tafari Makonnen, to hold upward of straight blood lineage from Menelik I, who began the East African Kings' long dominion inwards the region, starting around 950 BCE. Haile Selassie I's royal lineage has been a fact of fence amid African scholars. It is known, however, that royal majestic families proceed on the African continent despite the to a greater extent than recent historical evolution of African national governments. The </span><a href="http://www.imperialafrica.com/" style="text-align: justify;">African Continents Kingdom Federation</a><span style="text-align: justify;">'s (ACKF) electrical current leader is Imperial Matriarch Empress Shebah `Ra - </span><a href="http://www.imperialafrica.com/id2.html" style="text-align: justify;">Queen Shebah III</a><span style="text-align: justify;"> of the royal describe of piece of occupation solid unit of measurement describe of African Continent Nubian Nations Sheba Imperial Empire Kingdoms (0/1 Dynasty – 2d Millennium – seven Dynasty), a matriarchal throne. </span></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><i><br /></i></b> <b><i>Nights Over Egypt</i></b> yesteryear Incognito (original yesteryear The Jones Girls)<br /> <br /> <object height="244" width="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UoxHwOl2gN0&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"> </param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UoxHwOl2gN0&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object><br /> <br /> <b>As it was inwards antiquity, priests get together at Lalibela, Ethiopia</b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwf9gaS4kbwhzxM6HL5KP3vXd-oG_4ulxPWeDJ_kAFgH10WNejdVeT8f0azPpzVHfhHg_sdAl85qx219uWBn1e3Nb1rjV4Kzhk_d_aO2nBQ6I7VsABZN84Dpnavo_udVhx9Qmebkw15FM/s1600/Lalibela,+Ethiopia+Priests.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwf9gaS4kbwhzxM6HL5KP3vXd-oG_4ulxPWeDJ_kAFgH10WNejdVeT8f0azPpzVHfhHg_sdAl85qx219uWBn1e3Nb1rjV4Kzhk_d_aO2nBQ6I7VsABZN84Dpnavo_udVhx9Qmebkw15FM/s320/Lalibela,+Ethiopia+Priests.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Axum Girl</b><b><br /> </b><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiamcPshsVeuHjDPz_MxU-Ql3YzqiAc8yKamsDVmHUI09y9OIrZ98GDgwvSGZYSL3GnNcEioIPIDE3_XDErhO1iFUy-b08Dw6c0wsgB9_fdtT2vAdoiZOTiPoOAt1KU1uXACp5SiuS8I08/s1600/Ethiopian+Girl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiamcPshsVeuHjDPz_MxU-Ql3YzqiAc8yKamsDVmHUI09y9OIrZ98GDgwvSGZYSL3GnNcEioIPIDE3_XDErhO1iFUy-b08Dw6c0wsgB9_fdtT2vAdoiZOTiPoOAt1KU1uXACp5SiuS8I08/s320/Ethiopian+Girl.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> <i>And the dialogue continues...</i><br /> <object height="215" width="360"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/9sVgaulfDtA?version=3&hl=en_US"> </param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> </param> <embed src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/9sVgaulfDtA?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="360" height="215" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div> </div> </div>

The Queen Of Sheba: Ethiopia's Queen Makeda

The Queen of Sheba from Ethiopian fresco (c.1100s-1200s), Lalibela, Ethiopia. Zagwe dynasty. The Queen of Sheba   (also known equ...

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Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSBsL-FzYAcvnHVKmm1m9Km-bHkEeiMp4acpj5dWpGlmaFltPKLHecX50JGe5B9IrlW8W_r8qCLUhh8WdS5LWfI0PAVIY0ndFwnzo5ipnWjx0islMGM7Yc28vt4ns6tfZMpp1MEoInYVU/s1600/Miriam+Makeba+and+Dizzy+Gillespie+in+concert+%281991%29..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSBsL-FzYAcvnHVKmm1m9Km-bHkEeiMp4acpj5dWpGlmaFltPKLHecX50JGe5B9IrlW8W_r8qCLUhh8WdS5LWfI0PAVIY0ndFwnzo5ipnWjx0islMGM7Yc28vt4ns6tfZMpp1MEoInYVU/s320/Miriam+Makeba+and+Dizzy+Gillespie+in+concert+%281991%29..jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Miriam Makeba inward concert alongside Dizzy Gillespie inward 1991</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Mariam "Mama Afrika" Makeba</span></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Zenzile Miriam Makeba was born on March 4, 1932 in Johannesburg, South Africa to a Xhosa manful someone parent in addition to Swazi mother. The decease of this famous South African vocalist in addition to human rights activist was mourned the earth over on Nov 10, 2008.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "I lived briefly at her menage inward Republic of Guinea dorsum inward the grapple days, she was a goddess; gave alongside all her pump - never actually belonged to our country, she was but every bit good large for that; she belonged to the world. No wonder they called her, Mama Afrika," said Tswagare Namane to Rashidi Runoko in describing Miriam Makeba.</div> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b>Miriam Makeba - Qongqothwane or "<i>The Click Song</i>" </b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b>(A 1979 South African Apartheid Era Performance)</b></div> <div align="center"> <object height="264" width="345"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/BF2nG48r-6s&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/BF2nG48r-6s&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="345" height="264"></embed></object></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> She was raised under traditional African customs every bit her mother was a sangoma practitioner of herbal medicines in addition to counseling inside the Nguni tradition. The Grammy Award winning creative someone started her studies inward Pretoria, South Africa at the Kilmerton Training Institute. In the 1950s she joined the Manhattan Brothers earlier starting The Skylarks group. Her music development became a blend of African jazz in addition to traditional music. </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidA0WS8pMN5aaNkqe4uo9uzDEAA61gZrEoQ74HFn0N-FDiufjGb1QcICIgdU5IzQg7q57yNTe_wtzAly7TZu765DFIW7NkCuESqXa5DpLSkWxNK_8_5x9xsZSweNfb9GIgWH7nYRTGK_Y/s1600/miriam+makeba.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidA0WS8pMN5aaNkqe4uo9uzDEAA61gZrEoQ74HFn0N-FDiufjGb1QcICIgdU5IzQg7q57yNTe_wtzAly7TZu765DFIW7NkCuESqXa5DpLSkWxNK_8_5x9xsZSweNfb9GIgWH7nYRTGK_Y/s320/miriam+makeba.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Showtime Magazine (Cleveland Press) March 1, 1968</b> </div> <br /> The chance to locomote exterior of South Africa arrived when she appeared inward Lionel Rogosin's independent documentary "Come Back, Africa" inward 1959. She traveled to London where she met Harry Belafonte who assisted her alongside entering into the United States, which is where many of her famous songs similar "The Click Song" (<i>Qongqothwane</i> inward Xhosa) in addition to "Pata Pata" were originally recorded. Mariam Makeba had brief marriages to the musical legend Hugh Masekela in addition to human rights activist Stokely Carmichael. <br /> <br /> In 1974, Mama Africa performed inward Zaire at the famous Muhammad Ali in addition to George Foreman "Rumble inward the Jungle" match. In 1990, after living inward the U.S., West Africa, Nelson Mandela convinced her to supply to South Africa to terminate her three-decade-long exile imposed yesteryear the apartheid-era South African government. Her spread of the beautiful music of southern Africa, her synthesis of the music of the African diaspora alongside her native music, every bit good as her resilence on the query of human handling inside socities, made her a Queen inside the African struggle. She died at historic catamenia 76 afterwards a concert performance in Italy.</div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjojhfHTjMUXqSHUYgQTYAfkYeaH-ZoFo514oFoDjPtxmqHg7L24dRxYMzSyB7GaceF2vNYsNi4lMEcdlYEMPuKUiu7tfeeRrE4xqxCkMkgwhXoN7G4ynsdmVXSegvSycZn7U6GAOtvIRU/s1600/mongo+santamaria.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjojhfHTjMUXqSHUYgQTYAfkYeaH-ZoFo514oFoDjPtxmqHg7L24dRxYMzSyB7GaceF2vNYsNi4lMEcdlYEMPuKUiu7tfeeRrE4xqxCkMkgwhXoN7G4ynsdmVXSegvSycZn7U6GAOtvIRU/s200/mongo+santamaria.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Ramón "Mongo" Santamaria</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría was born Apr 7, 1917 inward Havana, Cuba. Best known every bit Mongo Santamaria, the Havana-born instrumentalist earned a reputation as 1 of the great Afro-Cuban Latin jazz drummers. He spread the collaborative spirit of the Jazz Era inward 1950 when he moved to New York in addition to began playing amongst Tinto Puente, Cal Tjader, in addition to others. The phase elevate of Japanese histrion Yūsuke Santamaria was inspired past times Mongo Santamaria.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">His "Afro Blue" became a jazz measure in addition to was popularized every bit a remake past times John Coltrane. Mongo's Jazz Funk remake of Herbie Hancock's 1963 "Watermelon Man" led to his induction into the Grammy Hall of Fame inward 1988. He died Feb 1, 2003.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div align="center"><object height="364" width="445"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/YbE7jf_Hp5w&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/YbE7jf_Hp5w&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object></div></div>

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