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By Bashir Akinyele In the past two weeks, community activists and peace workers have been conducting  aggressive anti-violence maneuvers  in the streets of Newark, NJ. Outrage with the uptick in senseless community violence in the city in recent weeks, community activists and the city’s peace workers hosted Massive Stop The Violence March and Rally in […]

“My job as a historian is to dislodge misconceptions, not to entertain my students and not to make people feel comfortable. That’s what good history does.” -Nancy Isenberg (Professor of American history at Louisiana State University) By Bashir Muhamnad Ptah Akinyele  Teaching history is my passion, particularly Black history. In this article, African  history and […]

A Lengthy Analysis of Afrocentricity’s Approach To White Supremacy, Racism, History, Culture, and The Black Freedom Struggle  By Bashir Muhammad Ptah Akinyele   (I will use African and Black interchangeable to refer to people of African descent) I am starting my commentary off with the word Hotep. With that being said, Hotep brothers and sisters, friends […]

By Bashir Muhammad Ptah Akinyele (I will use Black and African American interchangeable to refer to people of African descent) Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis  has truly lost his mind. He is proposing legislation in the state of Florida to prohibit white people from feeling any guilt from the factual education of white supremacy, systematic […]

UpdatedSun, Jul 11, 2021 at 7:13 am ET Reply My education tour in Afrikas Nile Valley is Sunday on July 11, 2021. By the time this commentary is published, I will be in Kemet (Egypt). However, my trip to Afrika marks the beginning of my two-week journey to study Kemet (Egypt). I will finally get the opportunity to physically see Black peoples contributions to the worlds civilization and religions through the eyes of Kemet. Evidence suggest that Afrika is the birthplace of humanity, the progenit...

UpdatedWed, Mar 17, 2021 at 2:40 pm ET Reply (Dr. Leonard Jeffries-The Legendary Professor of History and Africana Studies) Newark, NJ – In response to a high demand from Black people to get involved in an intense study of African history and culture, ASCAC (the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations) has established a study group chapter in Newark, NJ. The two community leaders directing ASCACs efforts to reaffirm its presence in the city of Newark are veteran history t...

By Bashir Muhammad Akinyele Let me first begin my lecture with giving thanks to the Creator of the heavens and the earth. A Creator that is called by many ancient names in this world, such as Yahweh, God, Allah, Dios, and Olodumare. But the oldest name for the Creator in human history is Amen-Ra. This word Amen-Ra for the Creator of the heavens and the earth comes from the Afrikan Nile Valley Civilization called ancient Kemet-known to the world as Egypt. Amen-Ra comes the world’s first writi...

UpdatedTue, Feb 23, 2021 at 3:17 am ET Reply (Dr. Du Bois was a Black sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer, and editor.) On Friday, February 19, 2021, Weequahic High school in Newark, NJ will commemorate Black History Month with the raising of the Black Liberation Flag. This will be the nineteenth year the school and community have organized the ceremony. It is an effort to recognize the importance of Black history and Black History Month. Th...

UpdatedMon, Feb 1, 2021 at 2:17 am ET Reply We as Afrikan people need to establish more independent Black media platforms in America to force the world to respect Black perspectives, especially the radical, progressive, socialist, communist, Afrocentric, Black nationalist, and Pan Afrikanist view. Because white supremacy has distorted one of American democracys most cherished civil liberties-the freedom speech. This fundamental principle in Americanism is not enjoyed by Afrikan people. We do no...

UpdatedTue, Jan 19, 2021 at 7:24 pm ET Reply(1) Donald J. Trump, the duly elected 45th President of the United States of America, helped to orchestrate a failed coup détat to stop democracy on January 6, 2021. Every four years, after the national US Presidential elections are over in November, the US government passes the electoral votes through the Senate in Congress to certify the winning presidential candidate as the official American President. This is Americas democratic process for the e...