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In 1996, Bobby Seale alongside Huey Newton became one of two co-founders of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) in Oakland, California. The FBI presented the group as a terrorist or hate group, and made part of the mission of the organization to destroy the BPP, even though the BPP was nowhere near being as violent a threat. In his book Seize the Time, Seale wrote of the group’s victories and downfalls, including how the FBI exaggerated the nefariousness of the group and deceived the…

world all come from Sub-Saharan Africa. The life expectancy of these countries is less than 55 years old. The infant mortality rate of these countries is devastatingly low as well- 1 in 7 children will not live to celebrate their fifth birthdays (Angola, Central African Republic, and Chad). This is largely the result of poor access to good health care, malnutrition, disease (think Ebola outbreak), and of course, poverty. The third and final factor, net migration, varies by country. The largest…

Queen Nzinga Mbande, Queen Nzinga for short, was the powerful African ruler of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms, is now the country of Angola, during the 16th and 17th century. She was best recognized as the fearless leader that helped her people fought against the colonization of the Portuguese and bring freedom to her country, as well as free her people from slavery. Ngola Kiluanji Kia Samba, Nzinga’s father, was the ruler of the Ndongo people at the time Nzinga was born. Her brother, King…

African Americans also known as Afro-Americans of Black Americans are an indigenous group of Americans with partial or total heritage from a black tribal groups of Africa. This term may also include those persons who descend from enslaved Africans (Michelle 2012). The first African arrived in 1526 via Santo Domingo which is the present-day South Carolina. These slaves revolved and sought refuge among the local Native Americans. The first recorded Africans in the British North America was in 1619…

The film Attica, directed by Marvin J. Chomsky in 1980, covers the riot caused by inmates at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, NY. The riot lasted four days and was due to poor treatment of the prisoners by guards. While watching the documentary, it seemed that the whole thing could have been prevented in multiple ways. It may have never happened if the prisoners were treated adequately in the first place, it may have been stopped peacefully if the inmates would have come to an…

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Commemorative Mother and Child figure. Angola. 19th-20th Century. This piece of African artwork shares a lot of characteristics with the Getlein’s artwork Gwandusu. Bamana. 13th-15th century (Page 422). This maternity figure is an archetype of feminine beauty. Both of these artwork resemble a lot. Both of them are made of the same medium. They are made of wood sculptures made of wood, metal and pigments. Both of them have filed teeth, beaded adornments and…

With a name as blatant and descriptive as “black-footed cat,” the literal translation of Felis nigripes is almost certainly assumed to have black feet, however, its name is slightly misleading. Melvin and Fiona Sunquist, authors of Wild Cats of the World, note only the soles of the black-footed cat’s feet are truly black, whereas the visible upper parts are no different from the rest of its tawny colored coat (76). The name is further misunderstood within the Felidae family, since the African…

Banners bore the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky's proclamation "Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live forever!" There might be challenges to the globalized liberal order, but they would come from Islamism or China's state capitalism, no longer a discredited Marxism. China and Russia both deploy symbols of their Communist heritage to strengthen an anti-liberal nationalism; in the West, confidence in free-market capitalism has not recovered from the financial crash of 2008, and new forces of the…

disease, tropical storms, and vessel damage, but there is a multitude of human activities that are causing damage such as climate change, land based pollution, and unsustainable fishing (Oceanservice.noaa.org). One example of this is in the coast of Angola. Due to the recent oil spills, the coral reef has been almost totally destroyed leading to an increased shoreline hazard and beach erosion rates (Coastalcare.org). Another issue is coral bleaching. Coral bleaching…

Jonathan Belmonte Period 4 Mrs.Russell May 1, 2015 JAMESTOWN In this paper I will be writing about the history of Jamestown and how it came to be today. America's first permanent English colony arrived in 1607 before the pilgrims came.The government, language, customs, beliefs and aspirations of these early Virginians are all part of the United States’ heritage today. They came from Virginia company of London. King James I seeking a northwest passage to the Orient, and converting…