FunTimes Magazine joined partners from Temple University’s Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection and Lincoln University for an oral history methodology training session with student scholars preparing to document the lived memories of elders whose lives connect African, Caribbean, African American, Civil Rights, and Pan-African histories.
This tension between America’s ideals and its realities makes Philadelphia an especially powerful setting for Juneteenth celebrations. The holiday serves not only as a remembrance of emancipation but also as a reminder that freedom in America has often been fought for, delayed, and won one struggle at a time.
Whatever you do, try not to take your wife there on a vacation, she just might not come back with you.
In Africa, among the many great works of art that exist on the continent, one stands out for the rich historical narrative it tells about a culture and civilization that thrived long before the advent of colonialism. That remarkable work of art is the famous Benin Bronze Head.
First established as African Freedom Day in 1958 by visionary leaders like Kwame Nkrumah, the event evolved on May 25, 1963, when 31 independent African heads of state convened in Ethiopia to form the Organization of African Unity (OAU), now the African Union (AU).
This year, the April 30th celebration will entail a 10-year anniversary All-Star Global concert live stream.
Today, in 1961, the West African country of Sierra Leone achieved independence from the British. Let’s celebrate the country’s independence by exploring the role of abundant natural resources in the country, resistance to slavery, and its growing legacy of African diaspora repatriation.
Source: Wikipedia Philadelphia holds a central location in the history of American medicine. The city was home to the first…
The story of Senegalese independence is one of the most intellectually rich and complex chapters in the history of African liberation. It was a movement fought in both the political arenas of Paris and Dakar, and in the realm of culture, poetry, and philosophy.
Today, the memory of the genocide has become a painful yet necessary reminder of humanity’s failings and abdication of our collective responsibility to be our brother’s keeper. Through testimonies, memorial sites, and annual commemorations, the voices of those lost continue to echo through time.
