June 09, 2015

We Must Protest the King Tut Mini Series

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The real King Tut, from his throne back rest. White characters are used to portray King Tut and the Egyptians in this made for TV film...
May 04, 2015

The Minoans, Black Aegean Cruise

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A perusal of this blog indicates that world history, as we know it, should be revamped to ensure that all students get the truth about his...
April 02, 2015

Senegal's African Renaissance Monument

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There's a language in art. Sometimes it's codified. But more often than not the pure beauty of a piece communicates simply because...
November 20, 2014

Images From the Black Diaspora

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Assyrian art taken from the ancient capital of Nineveh circa 1854-1855 by Schomberg Kerr an attache' to Tehran. The Assyrians, Babylon...
September 07, 2014

The Minoans, Ancient Civilization of Crete

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Study tip: Good research follows primary sources, not modern artists' renderings. I don't always agree with the narrator's ass...
September 01, 2014

Sumerian Human-Headed Bull

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Photographs credited © RMN, Musée du Louvre / [etc.] are the property of the RMN. Non-commercial re-use is authorized, provided the source...
February 10, 2014

The Etruscans -- Black Progenitors of Rome

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Although this documentary is from a Eurocentric viewpoint, close observations of the priests and tomb wall paintings reveal a narrative a...
December 11, 2013

The Etruscans -- Augurs Tomb, Tarquinia, 6th Century B.C.

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Before Rome, there was Etruria. The early period tombs of the Etruscans depict Black men. Bordered roughly in what is now known as the Tu...
October 04, 2013

Persian Archers, Assyrian Glazed Brick... . Click

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  Persian archers, known as the 10,000 Immortals, originally featured in the palace at Susa. Only Persian nobles could serve as Immorta...
February 11, 2013

Black History Month Update

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Hannibal Barca, Commander of Carthage This coin of Hannibal Barca is said to be carbon dated to the time of Hannibal, 247 – 183 B.C.,...
February 12, 2012

It's Black History Month!

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Houston Chronicle photo of Tutankhamen exhibit Kudos to the Houston Chronicle for covering this tomb wall painting of King Tut at the cur...
July 29, 2011

Open Letter: Science Museum of Minnesota

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` Here in the Twin Cities, the NAACP of Saint Paul where I serve as communications chairman, has reached out to local media with "...
March 30, 2011

Breaking Institutional Complicity. Tell it Like it Is!

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March 12, 2011

The Real Egyptians

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January 26, 2011

The Truth about Hemiunu

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  The statue of Hemiunu, the 4th dynasty vizier of Pharaoh Khufu, was purportedly found headless in 1912 by a German/Australian excavatio...
September 06, 2010

Nefertiti: Discovery Channel Depiction (Click)

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  It’s definitive. The iconoclastic Nefertiti bust that has long been used to depict the 18th dynasty queen of Egypt is a hoax . I repo...
April 17, 2010

Queen Tiye

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  Queen Tiye was the grandmother of King Tut. Her son was Akhenaten, Tut’s father, husband of Nefertiti. Tiye reigned during the New Ki...
November 03, 2007

Light Being Shed on Light-skin Ancient Egyptians

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  Egyptology prior to the Afrocentric movement forgot about light-skinned Blacks, it seems. That’s a classification we as Black people ...
March 12, 2007

Prince Kawab -- Son of Khufu (Old Kingdom)

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      Prince Kawab (Kewab) was the eldest son of Khufu (Cheops) -- Dynasty IV. If there are any questions as to Khufu’s African heri...
July 04, 2006

The Stolen Legacy of Classical African Culture

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Click here: Professor Manu Ampim's research, and scroll down I visited Chicago recently and got a personal view of the new King Tut ...
June 03, 2006

The Study of Afrocentric Classical Cultures

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   The question of why we need to study classical Afrocentric cultures is being discussed on many levels today. To most of us, it is the ...
April 15, 2006

Thutmoses III and the New Kingdom’s Expansion

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   The New Kingdom in Ancient Egypt (Kemet) represented the zenith of Egyptian culture. It was the era of Tutankhamen, Akhenaten, Hatshe...
March 06, 2006

Protecting the Spirit of Black America, Today

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   It is one of the most enduring images of Olympics sports history; an image that will inevitably frame the Olympic story of our era. T...
February 06, 2006

Male-Female Relationships, a Key to Liberation

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    A strengthening of Black male-female relationships is key, I believe, in rebuilding functional African-Americans families. Colonialis...
January 02, 2006

Imhotep, the Father of Medicine, Architect…

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    Imhotep has been described as one of the most fascinating people of the ancient world. Considered a genius, he rose from the ranks of...
December 08, 2005

Menes, First Pharaoh of Kemet (Egypt)

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Pharaoh Menes  According to the most ancient of sources, Pharaoh Menes is attributed as having been the unifier of early kingdom states al...
November 10, 2005

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Ancient Egyptian Love Poems... Note: They called each other sisters and brothers, like we did in the 1960s. Your love has penetrated all...
September 24, 2005

King Tut Whitewashed by the Major Media

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King Tut and Queen Ankhesenamen  Twenty-eight years ago when the King Tut exhibit first made its way through Chicago, I was just coming ...

Culture's Cultivating Process Can Liberate Us

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In traditional societies, through thousands of years of trial and error, our ancestors developed cultures that sustained them and their wa...