Tuesday, October 29, 2013

September - Bolivian “Black Heritage” Month



In 2011, the National Afro-Bolivian Council declared September to be Black Heritage Month with September 23rd being black Bolivia’s equivalent of the Juneteenth celebration as slavery was abolished in 1848. However, more recently, Bolivians of African ancestry are mentioned in the new constitution as one of the 36 Bolivian nationalities.

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Germany reaches another milestone and
votes its first Afro-Germans in Parliament!!!!


Today is one of those days I wish I were a Senegalese!!! Oh my God, Germany listed its first Afro-Germans in parliament. Not one but two persons at once!!! And both are of Senegalese origin.

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

7 Rip-offs You Need to Know About



From "germ-fighting" household cleaners to college textbooks, buyer beware.

Rip-offs, known by economists as “market inefficiencies,” are cases in which the price of something has little to do with its actual value.

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Sunday, October 6, 2013

March against the genocide of Black people in Brazil


Essentially, these communities are asserting their right to survive and live free of state violence and its machineries such as the police, paid death squads, militias and extermination groups that seek to defend the status quo.


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