Building Bridges Instead of Walls

African Americans Working in The Homeland

and Diaspora

Since the advent of the infamous Atlantic slave trade, Africans at home and Africans abroad have heard that they do not like each other. Today, the American media continues this disservice by blasting images of sincere European-Americans offering their benevolence to our African family members, but seldom showing African-Americans doing likewise. This paints an inaccurate picture and continues to promote a master-slave, colonial power-colonial subject relationship.

Being a Pan-African magazine, we counter this image with stories and images of African-Americans working with Continental Africans and others in the diaspora.

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New Books Feature DC’s

East of the River Communities

Eastland Gardens

A new book that chronicles the history of the Eastland Gardens neighborhood in D.C. is now available. Though a White-owned real estate investment company initiated the development in 1928, Black families and individuals seeking a suburb in the city purchased most of the double lots for single-family houses and gardens. They relied on the expertise of African American builders and designers – sometimes the owners themselves – to create their dream homes and making the neighborhood a living museum of African-American architecture.

A is for Anacostia

A is for Anacostia by Dr. Courtney Davis is a great book for children that highlights things good in historically Black Anacostia and available at the Anacostia Art Gallery and Boutique.

What Mitt Romney and

Other Mormons Officially Believe

In September 1823, Joseph Smith was visited by a heavenly messenger named Moroni. (The same year that spiritual leader Denmark Vesey planned a slave insurrection with the intention of taking over Charleston, SC.)

In September 1827, Joseph received the record, which was written on thin plates of gold. Smith translated the book into English by the inspiration of God. The book is called The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ.

While some Blacks, such as Gladys Knight, have joined the church and it opened a wonderful temple on Malcolm X Blvd in Harlem, many Blacks remain skeptical of the church’s historic teachings on Blacks. “Negroes in this life are denied the Priesthood,” is a passage that one group finds disturbing from a historic Morman text.

Romney, whose faith has been an open obstacle in his quest to become President of the United States, will soon face South Carolinians, many of whom are Southern Baptist and about 30% whom are of African descent. While most Blacks are Democratic, many White Republicans are Southern Baptist and are having an open debate on Mormonism and whether or not it is a cult.

Mormonism: Frequently Asked Questions

Senator Rick Santorum on Blacks and Government Assistance

“I was in Indianola, (Iowa) (1/2 % Black) a few months ago and I was talking to someone who works in the department of public welfare here, and she told me that the state of Iowa (which is 91% White, 3% Black) is going to get fined if they don't sign up more people under the Medicaid program. They're just pushing harder and harder to get more and more of you dependent upon them so they can get your vote. That's what the bottom line is. I don't want to make Black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money. And provide for themselves and their families. The best way to do that is to get the manufacturing sector of the economy rolling again.”

Later in an interview on CNN’s John King USA, Santorum said, “I’m pretty confident I didn't say “black.” I started to say a word and sort of mumbled it and changed my thought. I don't recall saying black. No one in that audience heard me say that.” Comedian Huggy Lowdown named Santorum the “Bammy” of the week for his disrespect for Black people.

• What do you hear Santorum Say?

Gingrich Singles Out Blacks Among Those Needing Assistance, Too.

The NAACP responded, “The majority of people using food stamps are not African-American, and most people using food stamps have a job.”

• Gingrich Explains?

• CNN Reports:  GOP's Racial Stumbles

Meet the Home Healthcare Worker Who Inspired the President

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Group Starts Petition For Obama To Clear Marcus Garvey’s Name

There is a petition on Change.Org to send President Obama to encourage him to clear the name of Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican activist who started the “Back To Africa” movement in the 1920s in Harlem.

Former Republican Louisiana Representative David Duke offers a very interesting perspective on the browning of America and the world in Will the White Race Survive?

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