Kenyan Boys Choir - Jambo Bwana. THORNETTA SINGS "LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING" BY JAMES WELDON JOHNSON. African Percussion. Babatunde African Drum Performance. Lift Every Voice (Black National Anthem) Amiri Baraka's Funeral Services In Newark Okayplayer. Photos by Nicole Benvigeno for the New York Times This past Saturday the funeral of writer and revolutionary icon Amiri Baraka shut down a section of one of downtown Newark’s main streets, dignitary style.
Barricades. Mounted cops in formation. Hanging above the street, an American flag so large that it was held by a crane on either side, four stories tall perhaps. Police sirens on silent, pulsing their blue/red, blue/red, blue/red into the wet, gray slab of a cold January morning–snow falling gently upon the living and the Dead. Inside, every seat was taken. So here was the coffin of Amiri Baraka being carried down the center aisle of this majestic building, while New Orleans jazz was played by the band on stage and hands clapped and here and there women’s voices would pierce the shroud of celebratory solemnity with stark ululations.
I was there because I couldn’t imagine not being there. An Overview of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade began around the mid-fifteenth century when Portuguese interests in Africa moved away from the fabled deposits of gold to a much more readily available commodity -- slaves.
By the seventeenth century the trade was in full swing, reaching a peak towards the end of the eighteenth century. It was a trade which was especially fruitful, since every stage of the journey could be profitable for merchants -- the infamous triangular trade. Why did the Trade Begin? Expanding European empires in the New World lacked one major resource -- a work force. In most cases the indigenous peoples had proved unreliable (most of them were dying from diseases brought over from Europe), and Europeans were unsuited to the climate and suffered under tropical diseases. Was Slavery New to Africa?
Africans had been traded as slaves for centuries -- reaching Europe via the Islamic-run, trans-Saharan, trade routes. What was the Triangular Trade? Image: © Alistair Boddy-Evans. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Roll over names of designated regions on the map above for descriptions of the role of each in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The North American mainland played a relatively minor role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Its ports sent out less than five percent of all known voyages, and its slave markets absorbed less than four percent of all slaves carried off from Africa. An intra-American trade in slaves – originating in the Caribbean - supplied additional slaves, however. This region was exceptional in the Americas in that a positive rate of natural population growth began relatively early, thus reducing the dependence of the region on coerced migrants. The Caribbean was one of the two major broad regional markets for slaves from Africa. Brazil was the center of the slave trade carried on under the Portuguese flag, both before and after Brazilian independence in 1822, and Portugal was by far the largest of the national carriers.
BHT master 07.05 - brochure-black-history.pdf. Otis Boykin - Noted Black Inventor Otis Boykin. The Black Inventor Online Museum - a Look at Black Inventors and their Contributions to Society. Inventor of the Week: Archive. Inventor of the Week Archive Browse for a different Invention or Inventor Garrett A.
Morgan (1877-1963) The Safety Hood Because of repeated incidents of firefighters being overcome by smoke when attempting to put out fires in his hometown of Cleveland, Garrett Morgan wanted to do something to help. [Feb. 1997]