Added by MrsKnoetal, blacklikemoi.com, on April 2, 2012. View original article here Town and country: They offered extraordinary insight into slave life They provide powerful insight into a part of America’s history that is no longer in living memory – it exists … [Read more...]
Lest We Forget
The following is a letter from www.ifacouncil.com/maafa. Obviously this organization is not aware of our activities in the San Francisco Bay Area, or maybe they are and are just disconnected. I have printed the letter here because the dates are to be noted and certainly we should … [Read more...]
Slaves who died at sea being honored
By Bruce Smith,Associated Press Writer, Jun 9, 2007 CHARLESTON, S.C. - Eighteen years ago, Tony Akeem organized a ceremony in New York City to honor the millions of Africans who died crossing the Atlantic during the slave trade. Similar observances have since spread around the … [Read more...]
Maafa 2005
By Wanda SabirSan Francisco BayView NewspaperPhotography by TaSin Sabir MAAFAWe Remember YouThe Middle Passage and all that we went though,We're Still Here … Lest we forgetOur heads to the sky … We cry … Why?- For the Millions -©2005 Dana Austin-Sockwell, Brother Clint, … [Read more...]
The View
By P.M. Price,Taken from Berkeley Daily Planet, 10-20-06 Two Sundays ago, on Oct. 8, I rose before dawn (way before) to drive a friend to Ocean Beach in San Francisco and take part in Ma’afa, what turned out to be an extremely moving ceremony marking the estimated 100 million … [Read more...]