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Otta Benga, Formerly Enslaved
The Epitome of a Nubian Knight

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QUOTATIONS OF "BLACK"

"Whenever I use BLACK it relates to some history of Africans in that particular place. It’s the idea of the color BLACK as a metaphor, or as a representation of African-Americans. It’s the notion of BLACK- BLACKNESS - and all its other meanings in relation to the history of race..."

- Fred Wilson



"Most of my fortitude to continue doing the work comes from the moral outrage I feel about the injustices that Black people endure disproportionately daily."

- N. Abdul-Wakil



"In the end, what matters is not skin shade but pan-African consciousness. Loving your complexion, your nose, lips, hair length and texture, no matter what the politics or trends decide, and simply be. That's the problem with us (African folks). We're still learning how to love ourselves. So used to glorifying others and putting others first..."

- Dredlocks Tree

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Thursday, November 25, 2010

THANKSGIVING
The National Day of Mourning
A Different Thanksgiving Perspective


Food For Thought On Thanksgiving...

Even though you may enjoy the great meal and the coming together of family on Thanksgiving, please be aware of this historical significance of this holiday. For the descendants of the indigenous people of "North America" (originally called Turtle Island), this holiday is represented by the sadness the Native American monument below speaks of.

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As time has evolved, pagan rituals have been used to instill a revisionist sense of history in us all. It's cool to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner with your family, friends and loved ones. However, please don't forget the atrocities committed against Native Americans in the name of imperialism. Their losses were to the same people that held our (African) ancestors in the most barbaric form of race-based chattel slavery the world had/has ever seen. The losses of the Native American people are also our losses. Our losses are also their losses.

It is the worst form of ignorance to be unaware of your history. It insults the memory and sacrifices that your ancestors made so that their descendants might have a better life.

- N. Abdul-Wakil






The National Day of Mourning

A Different `Thanksgiving' Perspective
by Terri Jean


"Brothers, we must be one as the English are, or we shall soon all be destroyed!"-- Miantinomo (Narraganset) 1642. (He was executed by the colonists and their Indian government allies in 1643).
It's that time of year. The holiday originated by poor Pilgrims and their neighborly Indian friends is about to be set again on Americas' kitchen table. With televised parades and football games, families gather together to give thanks for the previous year, and to inject heartfelt hope into the year to follow.
All the while a growing number of protesters gather yearly in Plymouth, Massachusetts to mourn the traditional feast. Well, not the feast itself or even the thankfulness it is meant to instill; they grieve the fictional foundation the national holiday sits upon, and with each passing year those protesters continue to feel the incessant societal slap dispensed to this continents first people.
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Where's the 'Thanks' in Thanksgiving?

One of the most cherished American holidays is Thanksgiving, a day that Abraham Lincoln officially declared in 1863, in praise of "our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens." In the early 1900s, Gimbels and Macy's saw dollar signs and commandeered the celebration, evicted the heavenly Father altogether, added a parade with Santa Claus, and the rest, as they say, is history. Or is it? Every American school child learns of the harvest feast where the friendly local Indians broke bread and shared turkey with the black-hatted, big-buckled European Pilgrims in a festival of interracial harmony and mutual respect. Yet, there is almost nothing true about this idyllic scenario--not even the turkey. This comforting mythology has concealed some of the bloodiest acts of race hate in American history. Let us pull the stuffing out of this Thanksgiving myth and get down to the bones of the Thanksgiving idea, which has some harsh and disturbing truths...

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In order to whet the appetite of the fierce Spanish dogs
for human flesh, New World natives were chopped up and
fed to the dogs!!!!!



The New World Holocaust!!

"From all this it is clear how a virtuous life in the preachers of the faith takes the place of miracles, so that unbelievers readily hear the words of life and see that it is reasonable to believe them, and thus finally they gain these men for Christ. But it will be just the opposite if their lives are stained by crime, especially by devastating their lands, by looting, invading and unjustly seizing the domains and properties of these same unbelievers. And if for this reason a countless number of them are killed and slaughtered, as we have always done and continue to do in the Indian lands of the west, nothing can be clearer than that we have become an effective obstacle to their conversion"
--(In Defense of the Indians, de Las Casas, p. 136). This is a famous quote from Don Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, the Defender of the New World people from his own rapacious countrymen. All we need to do to make it applicable to today is to change a few WORDS:

"But it will be just the opposite if their lives are stained by crime, especially by devastating their lands, by looting, invading and unjustly seizing the domains and properties of these same unbelievers. And if for this reason a countless number of them are killed and slaughtered, as we have always done and continue to do in IRAQ, nothing can be clearer than that we have become an effective obstacle to their conversion."

--The Hounds of HELL!!



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"[The Spaniards] took babies from their mothers' breasts, grabbing them by the feet and smashing their heads against rocks. . . . They built a long gibbet, low enough for the toes to touch the ground and prevent strangling, and hanged thirteen [natives] at a time in honor of Christ Our Saviour and the twelve Apostles. . . . Then, straw was wrapped around their torn bodies and they were burned alive."


Mandating Indigenous Holocaust EducationDr. June Terpstra

On yet another USA manufactured “holiday” where schools close to honor the savage conquistador, Christopher Columbus, who ushered into history the holocaust of approximately 11 million native north American “Indians” I propose a mandate for indigenous holocaust education, K-12. Like the new federal legislation introduced in congress to mandate education of the Jewish holocaust, I also propose we replace not only senior citizens arts and crafts but pre-school arts and crafts with education workshops developed to examine the denial of Indian genocide and removal; the denial of African Diaspora genocide and slavery, past and present; and, the genocide of Arabs and Muslims occurring in Palestine today.

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Who's The Real Terrorist?

Friday, November 12, 2010

Mississippi Damned DVD Pre-Sale Begins
Friday, November 12th, 2010

Official Website: www.MississippiDamned.com/



Own a Copy of the Award-Winning
Mississippi Damned

Pre-Sale Begins

Just in time for the 2010 holiday season, you can now purchase the Mississippi Damned DVD for your home collection! Own the film that made a definite mark on the film festival circuit, winning 15 awards at festivals all over the country. Honors include: Jury Award for Best Feature Film at the 2009 Chicago Film Festival, Grand Jury Award for Best Feature Film at the 2009 American Black Film Festival, and Grand Jury Award for Outstanding U.S. Dramatic Feature at the 2009 Outfest Film Festival.

The DVD is full of GREAT features including Deleted Scenes, the Trailer, Behind The Scenes Material, Interviews from the Film Festival Circuit, and Tina Mabry's first short, Brooklyn's Bridge to Jordan, which stars Jossie Harris Thacker who plays Charlie in Mississippi Damned.

Starring Malcolm Goodwin (Leatherheads, American Gangster), Michael Hyatt (The Wire), Malcolm David Kelley (Antwone Fisher, Lost), Tessa Thompson (For Colored Girls), Simbi Kali Williams (3rd Rock from the Sun), and DB Woodside (24,The Temptations), the film has been cited as one of "the best ensemble casts of the year."

Buy now to get the pre-sale price of $14.95 + shipping and handling! Take advantage of this great price as it will go up at the end of the pre-sale period. DVDs will be available for shipping on December 3rd, 2010 in plenty of time for the holiday season.

Just visit www.MississippiDamned.com and visit the store to get your copy today! (Navigate to the STORE tab)


Mississippi Damned Awards and Honors
  • Jury Award for Best American Independent Film: Philadelphia Film Festival/CineFest 2009
  • Jury Award for Narrative Breakthrough Film: 2009 Atlanta Film Festival 365
  • Audience Award for Best Feature Film: NewFest 2009
  • Grand Jury Award for Best Actor (Tessa Thompson): 2009 American Black Film Festival
  • Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature: 2009 American Black Film Festival
  • Grand Jury Award for Outstanding U.S. Dramatic Feature Film: Outfest 2009 Film Festival
  • Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature Film: 2009 Urbanworld Film Festival
  • Jury Award for Best Feature Film: 2009 Chicago International Film Festival
  • Jury Award for Best Screenplay: 2009 Chicago International Film Festival
  • Jury Award for Best Supporting Actress (Jossie Harris Thacker): 2009 Chicago International Film Festival
  • The Cheryl Dunye First Lady Award for Writing & Directing at the 2009 QBC Film Festival
  • The Cheryl Dunye First Lady Award for Producing & Editing at the 2009 QBC Film Festival
  • Mississippi Damned's Writer/Director, Tina Mabry & Cinematographer, Bradford Young Named in Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film
  • 2009 AfterEllen.com Visibility Award for Best Festival Release with Lesbian/Bi Characters
  • 2010 Black Reel Award for Best Independent Feature Film
  • Audience Award for Best Feature Film: Hayti Heritage Film Festival 2010
  • Tina Mabry Named 2010 United States Artist James Baldwin Fellow.

Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (DDFR.tv)
Website Launch by Chimpanzee Productions, Inc



Official Website: www.DDFR.tv


About

Digital Diaspora Family Reunion: One World, One Family™


DDFR is a multimedia community engagement initiative where individuals are invited to explore the rich and revealing historical narratives found within their own family photograph collections. The highlight of the initiative includes a touring DDFR Roadshow, combining the best features of PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow” and National Public Radio’s “StoryCorps,” that activates Black family photographic archives; and DDFR.TV, an online Portal that creates community across time and space. DDFR brings to the forefront stories and histories suppressed and/or hidden that show the fullness of Who We Are. By uncovering the little known history of our African American and African Diasporic families and relatives, this important and timely project provides a gathering place where all these lost, neglected and discarded shards of history can once again be seen, shared and appreciated. The goal of the DDFR initiative is to break down barriers between people and bring them together around the cultivation of their shared values and experiences. Conceived and founded by Chimpanzee Productions, Inc., with support from National Black Programming Consortium, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Cross Currents Foundation, Fledgling Fund, Nathan Cummings Foundation and others, DDFR.TV hopes to become the premiere web portal at the intersection of Black photography and the past, present and future of the African Diaspora.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Lez Talk About Toys
A Forum Discussison With
Women Who Like to Play With Other Women

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LEZ Talk About Toys
A Forum Discussion with
Women Who Like to Play with Other Women


Featuring
Ignacio Rivera
(Sex Educator, Performance Artist, Filmmaker & Activist)

Friday, November 12th, 2010
6:30PM - 8:30PM

At
GMHC
119 West 24th Street
(between 6th & 7th Avenues)
Room 405-410 (4th Floor)
New York City
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