Commentary by Charlie James This is one of the problems of integrating with a political and economically stronger racial group. You loose control of the process and then the entire process. African dance is now secondary to European classical dance and that is not your strength. This happened with A[...]
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What we owe to Haiti: Indendence Day
We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Haiti who is still the only nation on Earth created as a result of a successful slave revolt. Their victory in 1804 spelled the end of slavery because slave revolts began to happen constantly and the civil war was 60 years later.[...]
Charlie James: Kwanza
We had a great Kwanzaa +2 Harvey Johnson added 6 new photos — with Charlie James and Geneiva Arunga at Lem’s Life Enrichment Bookstore. 1ine #WorthyMoonMecca[...]
The Racial Hypocrisy of College Sports
Charlie James Pure Bull how these young men are used to make money but they fight against the average Black student. The height of hypocrisy in higher education – The Boston Globe Universities bring African-American men to campus at grotesque levels to earn the school millions in football an[...]
Charlie James on Watermelon
This is my favorite fruit and I had no idea what the original looked like until selective breeding was used to create what we eat now. A 17th-Century Stanchi Painting Reveals the Rapid Change in Watermelons through Selective Breeding Giovanni Stanchi (Rome c. 1645-1672). Oil on canvas. 38 5/8 x 52½[...]
Charlie Posts: 105th Anniversary of Slocum Massacre
On July 29, 1910, citizens in the small, predominately African American town of Slocum, Texas were massacred. This was one of many towns, such as Rosewood and Tulsa, where a successful, self-sufficient African American community was the sub…ject of a terrorist attack designed to maintain econo[...]
Charly James:
Charlie James Open letter to Martin Luther King County Executive Dow Constantine. Dear Executive Constantine: Their are a lot of reasons why the majority of the American African community lives outside of the city of Seattle and what used to be a Seattle problem is now a county problem. We have push[...]
The Freedom of Association
Alabama city won’t fire white supremacist cops — even if they join the KKK The Anniston Police Department in Alabama knowingly employs neo-Confederate sympathizers, the Southern Poverty Law Center reports. RAWSTORY.COMChar[...]
Seattle’s Major African American Church in Crisis!
TIME FOR A NEW START AT MT. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH Silence is consent whether it’s about small things or large. Your silence in the face of those things that are destructive to you or your family is a way of accepting tragedy without risking the scorn or anger of others by speaking up. I say [&he[...]