By Victor Omondi
Most history lessons don’t feature life on earth before Caucasian history. Despite there being civilization and advancement in the “Black Planet,” it’s often not talked about. Whenever people hear that life began in Africa, they often think that the Blacks then were uncivilized and “lost.” What most people think is true is that light came along with the so called “The Great White Hope.”
According to Historian John Henrik Clarke, “Civilization did not start in European countries, and the rest of the world did not wait in darkness for the Europeans to bring the light. In order to understand how this attitude came about, one needs to look at the sad state of what is called ‘world history.’
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By Bashir Muhammad Akinyele
-Imamu Amiri Baraka
White supremacy and systematic racism left Black people as one of the most oppressed groups in America. Many Afrikan American leaders came forward to help liberate Black people from centuries of socioeconomic disparities caused by racial discrimination. During the high levels of the Black Liberation Movement in the 1950s to the early 1970s, Civil Rights and Black power became the world wide rallying call for social justice. We as Afrikan people in the United States have been in a protracted struggle to protect our blackness and our humanity ever since 1619. That is the year Black people arrived on the American shores in chains. Like millions of Afrikans before us, we were kidnapped in Afrika and forced into an European-American slave making system that totally disconnected us from our land, language, and culture for the sole purpose to be exploited by whiteness and capitalism. But Afrika’s children were not the only thing European