Les Lester's Chronicle

This weblog entails Afrocentric culture and its thrust in the twenty-first century. You can post your perspectives on its chat page. Contact me at leslester@usfamily.net

July 22, 2025

Malcolm-Jamal Warner Will be Missed by Many

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I was so proud and amazed by Malcolm-Jamal Warner , many years ago, when I covered his visit to a good friend of mine's church in Ch...
May 12, 2025

Dr. Daud Malik Watts on Kemet (Egypt)

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April 12, 2025

Biblical Battle of Lachish Reliefs... .

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When the underlying facts are not revealed, the public comes to inaccurate conclusions surrounding issues such as the Hebrews and the depict...
March 23, 2025

Why the False Hierarchy Must be Deconstructed

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Fascism emerges when a group feels they are justifiably higher on the hierarchy because they've earned it. Thus, they feel equality me...
February 08, 2025

Netanyahu Hides Behind Trump in Arrest Warrant

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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has jailed the likes of Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia (now Serbia/Montenegro) and Charles Taylo...
December 08, 2024

Denzel Washington, Classical Black Cultures

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Where are the movies depicting Black classical cultures? The movie-viewing public is actually short changed when the full history of the w...
November 14, 2024

Let's Create a Flourishing World for our Youth --

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October 02, 2024

Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochanan Challenges Jewish Narrative

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In this thought-provoking debate, renowned historian Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan and noted Jewish scholar Rabbi Arthur Seltzer engage in a pas...
June 04, 2024

Sumer, Mesopotamia, Progenitors of the Middle East

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Genesis, the table of nations , and the extant artifacts in the current-day Middle East (Sumer, Mesopotamia) categorically provide abundan...
April 08, 2024

Dalit Activists Building Links with Diaspora Blacks

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Since the days of W.E.B. DuBois and India's Bhimrao Ambedkar, insightful Black activists from the Western and Eastern hemispheres, of ...
March 04, 2024

European Slaves Taken to Egypt Through the 1870s

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Many people, today, wonder why contemporary Egyptians are commonly light skinned. Well, prior to the late 1800s, Barbary Coast corsairs (s...
February 03, 2024

Schools are Shortchanging Black History

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The Nile River descends from the highlands of the Great Lakes region of Central Africa and has deposited people along its shores since tim...
December 09, 2023

An Ancient Syrian Soldier with his Wife

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The color coding of Black classical cultures to look pink colored, in modern media, is a basic issue that should be addressed by the Depar...
October 08, 2023

Mass Media, Popular Culture, and History

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The producers of Krapopolis, a comedy, have been forward-thinking in getting out a more accurate depiction of the ancient world, namely an...
September 02, 2023

The Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom... .

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Top: Menes, the unifier of Upper and Lower Egypt. Middle: Menhotep II, pharaoh of the Middle Kingdom. Bottom: Rameses the Great, from ...
August 08, 2023

Freedom School Youth Indict Current-day Hip Hop

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I had a great time teaching at Freedom School in the Twin Cities this summer. Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) and the Student Nonviolent C...
June 04, 2023

Jim Brown -- Les Lester with the NFL Great

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We lost former NFL great Jim Brown recently. He was one of the best examples of an athlete who used his platform unequivocably to advance ...
May 08, 2023

George Floyd's Ancestor Had Gained Wealth

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According to a new book -- His Name is George Floyd -- by Washington Post reporters Robert Samuel and Toluse Olorunnipa, George Floyd...
March 02, 2023

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The schools in the West have never taught about Black classical cultures, such as the Etruscans who preceded Rome in Italy. To accelerate ...
February 01, 2023

Africa's True Size Distorted by Maps... .

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Because of distortions on the Mercator maps , we now know that the general depiction of Africa on the world's maps is undersized. A tr...
September 03, 2022

The Pyramid at Memphis, Tennessee

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The modern-day pyramid in Memphis, USA, has a lot of upside for tourism. I was there recently and shot this cell phone footage. Back when ...
August 02, 2022

Reconnecting Blacks: the Global Diaspora

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Western colonialism worked to separate Blacks in the Western Hemisphere from those in the Eastern Hemisphere. Melanated people, whether fr...
June 13, 2022

Joshua Maponga on the Pitfalls of Decentralization

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Maponga argues that the decentralization of the continent of Africa, today, lessens its ability to defend economically and politically aga...
May 02, 2022

Novel on White Slavery in Eastern Europe

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Most Americans are unaware of white slavery, imposed by the Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey), on the Slavic nations of Eastern Europe fr...
March 06, 2022

The Minoans, Black Aegeans, and Modern Chicanery

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The Minoans (Keftiu) trading with Egypt. From the tomb of Rekhmire, a vizier of Egypt. Source:  Met Museum, New York Fraudulent depiction of...
February 02, 2022

Whoopi Goldberg's Ethnic Firestorm Underpinnings

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Click Link: Whoopi Goldberg's Ethnic Firestorm Underpinnings While Jewish academic Henry Abramson disagrees with the idea that current-d...
January 01, 2022

The True Image of Nefertiti vs the German Fraud

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National Geographic magazine is at it again. This time they're displaying the iconic fake Nefertiti bust (see Guardian article) cur...
November 02, 2021

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

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The Atlantic Ocean was once called the Aethiopian Ocean according to Princeton University's map collections research. And the fact chec...
September 20, 2021

Sphinx of Darius the Great, of Persia

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This is a primary source depiction of one of the Darius the Great sphinxes. School textbooks are still using artists' representations ...
August 18, 2021

Christian White Slaves, Muslim Masters

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Photo: A Meccan merchant (right) and his Circassian slave. by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, c. 1888 From as early as the 14th century to t...
July 19, 2021

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

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John Perkins is getting old, now. But listen to him. He was an economic hit man contributing to the destabilization of underdeveloped nati...
May 01, 2021

"The American Narrative Killed George Floyd"

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How police officers are informed about Black people contributed to Derek Chauvin's callous treatment of George Floyd, when he kept his...
February 01, 2021

2020 Census -- Black Egyptians White

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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...
December 16, 2020

Resetting the Genes--Reversing Aging

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What was science fiction just a few years ago is being done in the laboratory, today. And now, during the COVID-19 stay-at-home, more peop...
November 13, 2020

Ghana's Jerry Rawlings Succumbs to COVID-19

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Ghana's former Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings risked death amidst two military coups to ensure Kwame Nkrumah's vision of a Pan A...
September 12, 2020

Covid-19, Rethinking Our Economic Model

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This Frontline episode points out how automation is changing the business landscape of America. Subsequently, the Amazons, Walmarts, McDo...
August 18, 2020

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Thought I'd share my Facebook posting on the Moors. Western framing of those Blacks in Renaissance Europe is errantly promulgated as ens...
June 22, 2020

Congressional Candidate Les Lester's Talk at the State Capitol

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June 04, 2020

Hannibal's Tactical Defeat of the Romans, Won but for Reinforcements... .

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The documentary was accurate in portraying a Black Hannibal, which extant sources corroborate. But the surrounding soldiers, though some w...
March 27, 2020

Tiger Woods on Golf Club Racism as a 14-year-old

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Tiger Woods talks about how as a child the racism was palpable at golf clubs, where he played... .
October 18, 2019

American Indians Were Darker in Early America

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When European explorers first reached the Americas, they thought they had landed on the eastern shores of India. Their drawings of Native Am...
June 08, 2019

A Modern Iranian Explicates Ancient Black Persia

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Just as America's borders have shifted, since its origins to the Louisiana Purchase, etc., the ancient world had shifting borders over...
May 04, 2019

Three Black Beauty Queens in 2019... .

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It's good to see America is getting some sense in 2019. Miss USA, Miss America, and Miss Teen USA are all this country's beauty qu...
February 03, 2019

Black History and Machiavellianism

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It has been clearly shown on this blog, over the past several years, that the coverup of classical Black cultures is extensive and all enc...
January 07, 2019

The Term "White People" Did Not Exist Until 1681... .

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September 17, 2018

Nestle Pays $200, While Flint Drinks Poison... .

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March 03, 2018

Black Panther, an African-Renaissance Film

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The movie Black Panther represents the essence of everything we’ve desired in a Black-genre film, iconoclastic, trendsetting, intelligent,...
February 18, 2018

Merging the Full Black History with World History

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January 07, 2018

Images of the Moors Proliferated in Europe

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Throughout Europe, there remain family crests, statues, busts, and ornaments dedicated to the Moors who rescued Europe from the dark a...
October 21, 2017

Mesopotamia -- Paintings from Mari

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From the palace of Mari’s Palm Court. The walls were covered with elaborate paintings depicting the deeds of Mari’s kings as well ...
September 09, 2017

Blacks and Native Americans--the Jury is Still Out... .

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The jury is still out on reconciling whether the Incas, Aztecs, and Mayans were aboriginal looking--what has been called aboriginal lo...
July 13, 2017

Clarifying the Out-of-Africa Migrations... .

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The out-of-Africa paradigm that early Africans traveled overland to the far reaches of the world needs to be modified to reflect the  m...
April 17, 2017

We Must Expand Our Cognitive Map Globally... .

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The long siege of the Pacific Islands continues.  How many more of the West Papua New Guinean's must die before we raise our voices? ...
February 18, 2017

Black History: Ethiopian Jews in Israel

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The Ethiopian Jews are direct descendants from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
December 17, 2016

A Young Lydia Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii

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Source Link, Liliuokalani Trust --photo right, a relative with Liliuokalani. --------Melanesian, Polynesian, and Micronesian designations...
November 14, 2016

The Indigenous Hawaiians 1853, 1878

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September 01, 2016

There Were Black Tribes Already in America... .

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------------------------- Ruby Tigertail, Sister of Charlie Tigertail ------------------------ Additional Research... . European explor...

The Indians in America Were Like Those in India... .

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The Indians in the Americas were an admixture of Africans and Mongoloids, just like those in India. I agree with those who prefer to keep th...
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Hi, I'm Les Lester, an author, journalist, and teacher. All populations have a time line, and that time line impacts the present. The more we know about the past, the better we understand ourselves, our current reality, and our potential future.
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