Dear White People...

The First Black FBI Agent

...was employed to take out the Garvey movement

The influence of Marcus Garvey

Part 2, part 3, part 4, Part 5,

This documentary chronicles one of fathers of pan-africanism, Marcus Garvey. It looks at his influence and how his movement was taken apart by the US government.

Heres a little known fact: the first black FBI agent was employed to take out the Garvey movement. The social conditions of his time created individuals like Garvey as blacks were still routinely Jim crowed in America at that time.

‘The stronger we are as a people the more respect we will command as a people’. One ideal all Pan African leaders shared was that they were firmly against Afro pessimism. They always kept moving, with a intense burning desire to change things by any progressive means necessary. Many of these men knew their history and they were eager to get back there. Knowing real African history makes it impossible to accept many conditions that have been placed on many of us. From to social context of hair, colorism, slavery and racism.

Through all of Garvey’s battles he brought together a race that had no direction and gave them hope and opportunity. Even though, he was forced to leave the United States he accomplished one of the largest black movements in America.

Sisters

So what is your ideology?

"White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to instill fear in people is to terrorize them. Yet this fear is best sustained by convincing them that their bodies are ugly, their intellect is inherently underdeveloped, their culture is less civilized, and their future warrants less concern than that of other peoples."

- Dr. Cornel West

Really, I'm here to be helpful

"Where I am now
I accept
and I understand
that I don't know anything"

A peek into history

Today in 1966,
Stokley Carmichael launched
the “Black Power” movement.

Shadeism

Shadeism from Shadeism on Vimeo.

How can we be upset that others hate us
when we hate ourselves?

What always comes first: Love yourself

Mind the way you refer to others.
If it reflects anything other than love
make sure you remembered what comes first.

No Re-Runs Brother

Because the Revolution will not be televised

Let's Get the Language Right

"They made everything black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionary and see...! .... Look at the word 'white', it's always something pure, high, and clean. Well I want to get the language right"



Have you authored your emancipation?
Are you sure?

selah

The Robbing of Our History

I find this part comical
and part amazing.

I am not Muslim,
but Malcolm X deserves respect and attention.

His intelligence gives me chills.