The Aethiopian Sea, the True Name of the S. Atlantic

The Atlantic Ocean was once called the Aethiopian Ocean according to Princeton University's map collections research. And the fact checkers at Africa Check, an online fact verifier, gives the university a thumbs up, on its findings. Works such as the Illiad and the Odyssey, meanwhile, reveal the whole of Africa was called Ethiopia two-thousand years ago. The term Ethiopian Ocean/Sea fell out of favor during the height of European colonialism in the 18th century.

Sphinx of Darius the Great, of Persia

This is a primary source depiction of one of the Darius the Great sphinxes. School textbooks are still using artists' representations rather than the archaeological finds--I will post more on the African-hair (statue-type) reliefs, at some point. 

Mesopotamia, Sumer were greater Africa to the ancient mind. Ref: Darius the Great, Louvre

Christian White Slaves, Muslim Masters

Photo: A Meccan merchant (right) and his Circassian slave. by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, c. 1888

From as early as the 14th century to the 19th century, white Christian chattel slavery ran concurrently with the transatlantic slave trade. Under the auspices of the Ottoman Empire, upwards of 2.5 million Eastern European slaves were captured. And in Western Europe, historian Robert Davis has estimated that 1.25 million Europeans were enslaved by Barbary Coast pirates, with the sanctioning of Libya, Algiers, Tunisia, and Morroco in North Africa. Britain, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands coastlines were said to have been depleted, in some periods, by the raids. Merchant and passenger ships along with fishermen were also targeted by Muslim and European privateers. Sources: Davis, Robert. British Slaves on the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800. -- The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420–AD 1804)

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

John Perkins is getting old, now. But listen to him. He was an economic hit man contributing to the destabilization of underdeveloped nations. When a country's leaders failed to do business with select companies or take IMF/World Bank loans, the jackals would come in carrying out assassinations and fomenting civil war.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Science, and Black History... .

Plus, priceless interview segments with India's Jarawa People... .

"The American Narrative Killed George Floyd"

How police officers are informed about Black people contributed to Derek Chauvin's callous treatment of George Floyd, when he kept his knee on Floyd's neck, killing him. "The American narrative on Black people is inaccurate from ground zero. In 1619 North America, Blacks and whites were indentured servants, contrary to contemporary frameworks. Meanwhile, whites and Blacks were in jeopardy of being enslaved, during the period, by state-sanctioned Barbary Coast Pirates. Fishermen, coastal villagers and whites in general in England and France, to the Netherlands, were prey to enslavement by maritime prowlers, who were offshoots of the ongoing Ottoman slave trade in Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus. (Les Lester, George Floyd Square following the verdict.)

2020 Census -- Black Egyptians White

Dr. Mostafa Hefny, a native Black Egyptian, is identified by the United States government as white. He has been fighting the U.S. for over 30 years to classify him, and those like him, under his proper designation--a Black man. But the U.S. Census in 2020 still listed all Egyptians as white. Arab-descended Egyptians did not conquer Egypt until circa 639-646 A.D., with the onslaught of Amr ibn al-'As and his troops. Since as early as 1915, W.E.B. DuBois fought against the white framing of Egypt, in his writings. And French journalist Constantin Volney published his book "The Ruins" of Empires in the mid to latter 1700s, which lauded the heritage of the Egyptians as Black people. Mostapha Hefny would like this cleared up via the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris administration.