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Bigger, bolder and badder than ever before
By Woullard Lett, MS

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Are you Black?

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Are you Black?

Name Place of origin Nationality

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Charles Darwin: Descent of Man, 1871

Bryan Sykes: The Seven Daughters of Eve, 2001

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Kemet: The Black Land

Greek: Aegyptus (Aigyptos)

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Kemet: The Black Land

Influences on Western/European Civilization

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Imhotep 2650-2600 BC - First engineer - First architect - First physician - Priest - Sage - Poet - Govt. official
School for Greek Philosophers -Thales of Milete - Pythagoras - Plato

Scientific accomplishments

-Astronomy
- Agriculture - Architecture - Engineering - Aeronautics - Mathematics - Medicine

- Metallurgy
- Writing systems

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East to West: Connections East Africa with West Africa
Africa in the East with America in the West

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East to West: Connections East Africa with West Africa
Influence of Egypt

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East to West: Connections East Africa with West Africa

DOGON People

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East to West: Connections
Africa in the East with America in the West

OLMEC
They Came Before Columbus Ivan Van Sertima, 1976

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East to West: Connections Africa in the East with America in the West

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Gold Coast

Ivory Coast

Slave Coast

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Transatlantic struggle for justice Maroon societies:
(Jamaica, Suriname)
Spanish - cimarrn: "fugitive, runaway

Palenque: (Cuba, Puerto Rico)

Spanish - village

Quilombos: (Brazil 40% of African slaves in Western Hemisphere)

Angola [Kimbundu]

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Transatlantic struggle for justice

Haiti
Culturally connected to West Africa and Dahomey people through religious practices

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Transatlantic struggle for justice August 1, 1619
indentured servants Arrival of first African

Mid-1670s hereditary African Slavery

established
(Bacons rebellion)

Mid-1670s 1865

Abolitionist movement

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Transatlantic struggle for justice
Social accommodation (Booker T. Washington) vs. Social advocacy

(W.E.B. Dubois) integration

(NAACP)

Separation
(UNIA)

vs.

Black Power
(Black nationalism)

vs. inclusion
(Civil Rights)

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Transatlantic struggle for justice Malcolm X on nationalism

Dr. Martin Luther King on Malcolm X

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Is all African achievement in the past?

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Contemporary African examples

West Africa Advanced mathematical concepts Benot Mandelbrot, 1975

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West African Connection

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African cultural influences Music Field songs Blues Jazz Rock and Roll (race music) Hip Hop

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African social influences Social justice

Civil Rights movement Anti-War movement Womens movement Gay rights movement Environmental movement

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AGE OF OBAMA
Do we still need Black History Month?

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AGE OF OBAMA
Carter G. Woodson founder Miseducation of the Negro 1933
If you control a mans thinking you dont have to worry about his actions

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