Blending a vivid narrative with more than 150 images of artwork, Painter offers a history--from before slavery to today's hip-hop culture--written for a new generation.

Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy explores how everyday Black vernacular practices, developed to negotiate survival and joy, can be understood as philosophy in their own right. Devonya N. Havis argues that many unique cultural and intellectual practices of African diasporic communities have done the work of traditional philosophies. Focusing on creative practices that take place within Black American diasporic cultures via narratives, the blues, jazz, work songs, and other expressive forms, this book articulates a form of Black vernacular Philosophy that is centered within and emerges from meaning structures cultivated by Black communities. These distinct philosophical practices, running parallel with and often improvising on European philosophy, should be acknowledged for their rigorous theoretical formation and for their disruption of traditional Western philosophical ontologies.

Some have called Buxton a Black Utopia. In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians lived worked and attended school together. It was a thriving, one-of-a-kind coal mining town created by the Consolidation Coal Company. This inclusive approach provided opportunity for its residents. Dr. E.A. Carter was the first African American to get a medical degree from the University of Iowa in 1907. He returned to Buxton and was hired by the coal company, where he treated both black and white patients. Attorney George Woodson ran for file clerk in the Iowa Senate for the Republican Party in 1898, losing to a white man by one vote. Author Rachelle Chase details the amazing events that created this unique community and what made it disappear. --

Using creativity, ingenuity, and pizzazz, early African American women virtually invented many of the wonderful foods that have endured hundreds of years to still grace our tables and delight our taste buds to this day! Meet these admirable women, learn their cooking secrets, and try their recipes for yourself! This 36-page reproducible book is a sampling of the talent from the past and present.

This first book-length study of John Oliver Killens aims to help secure his place in literary history and explores his creation of an inspiring Black vernacular art—one that ennobles people of African descent and urges their political liberation. No serious history of the development of the African American novel from the 1950s onward can be written without reference to John Oliver Killens. A two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize and founding chairman of the legendary Harlem Writers Guild, Killens was regarded by many as a spiritual father who inspired a generation of African American novelists with his politically charged works. And yet today he rarely receives proper critical attention. Seeking to strengthen our understanding of this important literary figure, Keith Gilyard departs from standard critical frameworks to reveal Killens’s novels as artful renderings of rich African American rhetorical forms and verbal traditions. Gilyard finds that many critics, adhering to ideals of art for art’s sake or narrative conciseness, are ill-equipped to appreciate the many ways in which Killens’s fiction succeeds. Rejecting the "pure art" position, Killens sought to articulate Black heroism particularly within a family or community context, offering a set of values he deemed liberatory. He focused on rendering noble and polemical characters, and his work represents a distinguished fusion of sociopolitical persuasion (rhetoric) and literary artifact (poetics). To help illuminate such novels as Youngblood (1954), And Then We Heard the Thunder (1962), and The Cotillion (1971), Gilyard examines Killens’s work as an essayist and cultural organizer, highlighting his activism. His life and literary production can be partly characterized, Gilyard suggests, by the African American jeremiad—a major rhetorical form in the Black intellectual tradition expressing faith that America’s destiny is to become an authentic, pluralistic democracy.

Black or White are long since stopped being only skin-colors, but became digital programs with clear functions. The spirituel law says: “There is no coincident”. 0,5 p% of people know that, 99.5% of people are consumers. They consume everything, question nothing, they believe only what they see, hear and feel and that blindly. Their knowledge is what is put in their heads. Important for them is security, a full belly and sex. Fun and consumption decorate their life. That everything which happens around them is following a reason is a fact they would fight, as with the words black and white. These 99.5% of people have never taken the time in questioning why they address themselves differently than they look. Why Blacks are not called brown and why Whites are not called beige? Look at yourself, look at your skin-color: Are you white? Like the color white? Or rather beige? Are you black or rather brown? Do you still think this is a coincidence? Ah, yes. Why did the light-colored people decide to call people either Black or White? All seems to be insignificant, right? But actually, there is a giant, clever and complex racist system, or rather program which is digitally installed into Black people, at work which has the goal to provide White people with political, religious, cultural, psychological and business advantages by negatively steering Blacks sense of self, their thinking, their actions, their self-esteem. They steer that with the countless negative qualities and connotations the color black which has been purposefully created in the color black. One has to feel inferior, and the other superior. And it works fantastically for hundreds of years.

This Book is a Divine collection of her earth, and thee goodness therof, it has taken much time to prepare, after study and direction of numerous Holy books and literatures and life within itself. And still is is thee making. Wee wood advise students to read before or whilst visiting their local pasture lands, rivers and wildernesses and forestrees, to grasp thee full concept and meaning of thee instructions and teachings set fourth by Jah Ras Tafari thee Almighty God and father of thee world. As much of our past history shows our Bibles have not been utilised for there full purpose upon her earth and has led our land with much false Prophecy therfore a nations way of life.