A "GEMINI" BRUTHA JOURNEYING & EXPERIENCING A PATH OF NETWORKING & COMMUNICATION FOR THE HUMANITARIAN WELL-BEING FOR AND ABOUT THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
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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
The REEL Black Same Gender Loving Filmography Resource (A 24/7 ONLINE FILM DATABASE)
Click The Pic To Access The Film Library Database! (166 Films) LAST UPDATE: Monday, December 3rd, 2012
Anthony Jenkins (picture right) At the 16th Annual KWANZAA Celebration (December 29th, 2007) at The LGBT Center
I can't believe you're gone! I'll miss you! And I'll Miss All Those Outfits You Wore At Black Men's Xchange-New York (BMX-NY) While Living Your LIFE AUTHENTICALLY!
YOU EXUDE A ROYALTY LIKE A KING OF AFRICAN GREATNESS!!
Today, January 1st, is the Seventh Day of Kwanzaa!
The Seventh Principle of Kwanzaa is: Imani (ee-MAH-nee): Faith
- To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle so that a better world can be created for communities now and in the future. (Light The Nearest Green Candle on the Right)
Traditional Greeting: "Habari Gani?" (Translation: "What's the Word?" or "What's the News?") Response on January 1st: "Imani!"
Find a meaningful way to instill Imani your life today, and in the coming year.
Today, December 31st, is the Sixth Day of Kwanzaa!
The Sixth Principle of Kwanzaa is: Kuumba (koo-OOM-bah): Creativity
- To do always as much as we can,in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. (Light The Nearest Red Candle on the Left) Traditional Greeting: "Habari Gani?" (Translation: "What's the Word?" or "What's the News?") Response on December 31st: "Kuumba!"
Find a meaningful way to instill Kuumba in your life today, and in the coming year.
Today, December 30th, is the Fifth Day of Kwanzaa!
The Fifth Principle of Kwanzaa is: Nia (nee-AH): Purpose
- To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. (Light The Middle Green Candle on the Right) Traditional Greeting: "Habari Gani?" (Translation: "What's the Word?" or "What's the News?") Response on December 30th: "Nia!"
Find a meaningful way to instill Nia in your life today, and in the coming year.
e-Celebration of KWANZAA: My Heart Just Wasn't In It This Year
by N. Abdul-Wakil
(A Guest Nubian Knight's Perspective)
Peace, Rod:
I see that you moved ahead with e-celebration of Kwanzaa via posts to your blog. Good for you. My heart just wasn't in it this year.
Perhaps, it's the cumulative effect of having lived in the ghetto of Bed-Stuy for over three and a half years. I feel good that my voice for progressive movement is heard by a handful of people online. However, I don't even have to leave my apartment to be aware that my activism only creates one small air bubble surfacing among the relentless tide of ignorance that is eroding the coasts of this nation in daily massive waves. No one hears the faint calls for social justice, black nationalism, or reminders of the lessons taught by our great, martyred leaders of the twentieth century. No one hears above the mobile phones plastered to their ears. No one hears through the black, blonde or "ghetto fabulous" loud pink, horsetail-hair helmets that two thirds of Black women don daily to compete for attention among the dwindling number of straight Black men temporarily on the streets between jail terms. No one wants to hear about how their use of the "N" word denigrates their racial self-esteem (and passes it along to their children). It's not as though this is racial self-hatred. This is a hip form of camaraderie. It must be. They see usage of this word affirmed by music videos and popular films. No one even gives a hoot about recycling (which is the law). Why should they? Hasn't it always been easier to just throw the empty liquor bottles and cans out the window? Surely, it's better to do this than to risk everyone in one's building noticing the overwhelming number of vodka bottles in the recycle can. By throwing trash out the windows it's easier to wallow in the denial that no one knows what building residents have drinking problems. Right?
Today, December 28th, is the Third Day of Kwanzaa!
The Third Principle of Kwanzaa is: Ujima (oo-JEE-mah): Collective Work and Responsibility
- To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together. (Light The Farthest Green Candle On The Right)
Traditional Greeting: "Habari Gani?" (Translation: "What's the Word?" or "What's the News?") Response on December 28th: "Ujima!"
Find a meaningful way to instill Ujima in your life today, and in the coming year. HAPPYKWANZAA!
One FUN thing I LOVE playing is a game called WARRI . It is the oldest game in the world and originated in AFRICA. It is played many different ways and called numerous names depending upon the region of the world. The play mechanics in terms of thinking is as challenging as chess YET incredibly easy to learn and play like the simplicity of checkers. I have two WARRI game boards (the bigger one shown above). I bought both of them and learned the rules of WARRI from my friend and mentor, Oba. Click the pic to find out more. Really qool!
The Term "Same Gender Loving" (SGL)
"Same-Gender-Loving" or "SGL", its meaning which was coined and derived out of the Black community "...emerged in the early 1990s to offer Black women who love women and Black men who love men (and other people of color) a way of identifying that resonated with the uniqueness of Black life and culture". READ MORE...
Basically, it's a CULTURAL AFFIRMATION SPECIFIC to PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT. We speak for ourselves and self-identify for ourselves.
I live its ideology through LOVE and ACCEPTANCE.
All The AFRICAN Resource Links Starting From Here & Downward Are Alphabetized By Category. HAVE FUN! | | | V
FIRE!! (Reprint of the 1926 Issue) In 1926, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Thurman, Aaron Douglas, Richard Bruce Nugent, Gwendolyn Bennett and John P. Davis Created The Publication Called FIRE!!
The 2009 List: 25 Film Festivals Worth the Fee (by MovieMaker.com)
Every moviemaker has dreams of his or her film landing at Sundance or Cannes and instantly acquiring the enduring acclaim that fests of that caché can offer. There ’s nothing wrong with striving for those rarified venues, but moviemakers need not get their celluoid in a bunch if it doesn’t happen, because now more than ever there are excellent alternatives—festivals that go the extra mile to make certain that a moviemaker ’s efforts are well compensated.
Whether the payoff comes in the form of a generous cash prize, the opportunity to hobknob with an industry titan, or just a fattening of one’s press kit and crew Rolodex, the festivals that are worth your fee and your time can make all the difference in your burgeoning career:
• Action on Film International Film Festival • Angelus Student Film Festival • Ashland Independent Film Festival • Austin Film Festival • Bermuda International Film Festival • Boxur Shorts Film Festival • Calgary International Film Festival • Dark Carnival Film Festival • DC Shorts Film Festival • Doorpost Film Project • Elevate Film Festival • L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival • Mammoth Film Festival • Marfa Film Festival • Myrtle Beach International Film Festival • Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival • Ottawa International Animation Film Festival • Oxford International Film Festival • Palm Springs Shortfest • Poppy Jasper Film Festival • Red Rock Film Festival • Screamfest Horror Film Festival • SILVERDOCS • Syracuse International Film Festival • Whistler Film Festival
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