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Marcus Garvey was born the 17th of August 1887 in Saint Ann’s Bay, Jamaïca. The “Black Moses”, as the Rastafari movement call him, is one of the founders of the idea of Pan Africanism and the prime eulogist of Black Unity all around the World. He founded the Back to Africa movement to call the slave descendants to come back to the Motherland to chase off the colonial powers and develop the continent themselves.     So what can we learn from his deeds to grow as a person and a community?   Education   Marcus Garvey was born in...

The movement Black Lives Matter was launched by three African American women : Alicia Garza, ¨Patrisse Cullors and Opral Tometi, the latter director of an advocacy group for immigrants in New York, the group named Black Alliance for Just immigration. As of February 2015, according to Patricia Cullors , there are 23 chapters of Black Lives Matters in United States, Canada and Ghana including. The movement gained momentum following the death of black citizens during police control, for instance : Eric Garner in New-York who was screaming many times to the police « I can't breathe », a sentence which will be used as a slogan...

Destiny of Africa should lay in the hands of its children     Pan-Africanism is the belief that the destiny of Africa should lay in the hands of its children. The movement preaches unity and solidarity between black people and descendants of slaves worldwide. It states that all people from the African diaspora should go back to the motherland to help develop it and chase colonial powers and their influence out of Africa. It is an answer to the centuries of struggle and suffering African people had to bear, a response to colonialism and enslavement. The main idea of the...

A childhood marked by injustice   Throughout the beginning of the 20th Century, and even before then, it was not easy to be black. The white people had used the black people as slaves for so long that they forgot they were human. The blacks were forced to be slaves, preparing tobacco fields, working in homes, and even caring for the children of the whites.   There was a major issue with segregation. Black children were not able to go to school with my children. White men and women were able to sit down on public buses, yet black people...

What are Blaxploitation movies?   Blaxploitation (mix of the words “black” and “exploitation”) is the ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film, which emerged in United States in the 1970s. These movies were mostly done by black directors with black heroes and became the first style to use soul and funk music. The urban black population was the movies original target, however the audience of the genre soon had broadened across the ethnic and racial lines. From the gangster movie to the horror film, the western or the comedy, these movies covered almost all the subgenres and gave them an Afro-American touch for a new...