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We Must Realize That We Are Connected To The Past And Must Learn From It So That We Can Continue To Delve Into The Beautiful  Realities That Our Forebearers Fought So Hard And Suffered So Long For. They Battled Hard Knowing That They Probably Might Not Live To See It Come To Pass In Their Lifetime. We Must Appreciate The Unique Positioning For Advancement That Their Pain And Sacrifice Has Given Us. Without THEM We Would Not Be Able To Enjoy The Fruits Of A Blessed Tree Whose Seeds Were Planted So Very Long Before We Even Arrived To This Earth. Never Forget Where Your Root Is! Although Unseen, It Is The Root That Anchors The Trunk And Branches Of The Tree Enabling The Fruits To Be Chock Full Of Nourishment Feeding The Masses That Hunger For It's Life Giving Properties!

God Bless You Always & NEVER Stop Fighting For Justice!......We Can't Stop Now!


Mother Africa

Please Remember One Thing As You View These Powerful Images.........

"That Our Mighty Black Legacy Is Just Too Vast To Be Contained In One Short Month!"

" Lance "SCURV" Scurvin"




The Indian Ocean Slave trade evolved around the Indian Ocean basin. Slaves were taken from mainland East Africa and sold in markets in the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. In contrast to the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the Indian Ocean Slave Trade was much older.





The Reverend Jesse Jackson Music Producer Dr. Dre Cornell West (Background) Prays With The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.



Shahrazad Ali

Civil War Rebel Gen. Thomas F. Drayton's slaves in Hilton Head, SC 1862. Amongst them, their was a rank and file system.The two white overseerers were on top. Black men were the middle class, symbolized by their standing up. While black women were considered the lowest class, symbolized by sitting.


Bessie Coleman, the first Black female pilot. Max Roach

Black citizens of Lakeland confront the Ku Klux Klan on Florida Avenue, August 1938.

Bus Station in Durham North Carolina in 1940.

Philosopher, Poet & Hip Hop Pioneer KRS-ONE.

Mae Faggs

Wilma Rudolph



Former Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry Lady Day a.k.a. Billie Holiday

Controversial Comedian Paul Mooney


The Plantation Well. Every plantation had a cistern or well that collected water from the roofs of the plantation buildings. Here Eickemeyer presents an almost biblical scene of workers gathered at the well doing what peasants and rural folk have done for centuries. Notice the ramrod straight postur

Sugar Ray Robinson

Richmond native Bill Bojangles Robinson (1878-1949) taken from the Hunter Stagg Papers housed in Special Collections and Archives. This image of Robinson was taken February 6, 1932 in Harlem. The print was made by writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964).

The Reverend James Cleveland

Mahalia Jackson Big George Foreman waving the american flag after winning a gold medal in boxing at the 1968 Olympics.

 Slave Cabin and Occupants Near Eufala, Barbour County, Alabama

Wesley Snipes as Blade. Janet Jackson Macy Gray
Jody Watley
Martha Wash
Tracey Chapman

Gil Scott Heron

Dhoruba bin Wahad Albert Nuh Washington Fred Ahmed Evans

Carl Lewis


Muhammad Ali garners support from the top athletes of his day in his decision to not partake in the vietnam war. How many of todays top stars would have the courage to take such a stand?

Historian & Scholar John Henrik Clarke

Young Black Man Being Choked By Police Sonia Sanchez
Face to face with the oppressors in Selma.

Muhammad Ali in the Nation of Islam Lawrence Fishburne Morpheous
Run DMC

Legendary Cartoonist & Boondocks Creator Aaron McGruder

Debbie Allen Lola Falana
Melvin & Mario Van Peebles, Father & Son

James Farmer Aretha Franklin & Ray Charles
Cuba Gooding Jr. Walter Payton

Entertainer & Master Comedian Steve Harvey The Jackson family at home at their dinner table.

Prince Tony Brown

Will Smith (On the right) in the television sitcom Fresh Prince. Arthur Shomburg
Dr. Ralph Abernathy & Dr. Martin Luther King

Mos Def

Sylvester Clifton Davis & Theresa Merritt


Pearl Bailey Joyce Bryant

Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to the masses. Klan Members attend a Black Muslim rally.
Blacks hosed down by police in Birmingham Alabama.

Robert & Mabel Williams, click here to see more about this amazing Revolutionary couple!





Gladys Knight Chuck Berry

The videotaped Rodney King beating seen on television around the world! Rodney King, before and after the beating by the Los Angeles Police Department.
Rodney King saying those famous words in front of the television cameras.....Can't we all just get along?


White actor in Blackface.


Mary Elizabeth Bowser

Freda Payne Leslie Uggams
Nancy Wilson

The Legendary Marvin Gaye The Greatest Of All Time!........ALI!

Billy Dee Williams Rapper Foxy Brown

Baseball's Homerun Kings Hank Aaron & Bobby Bonds

Delroy Lindo Lauryn Hill
L.L. Cool J


Gloria Richardson facing off National Guardsmen, Cambridge Maryland May 1964

Brock Peters Michael Clarke Duncan in a scene from the movie The Green Mile


Azie Taylor Morton. The First Black U.S. Treasurer appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Big Ben Wallace of the Detroit Pistons

Roy Wilkins

Avery Brooks Bernie Casey
Reggie Jackson


Art Kane Jazz Portrait Harlem 1958

Mary Ellen Pleasant Eddie Durham- Master Musician Mansfield Tyler

TLC

Percy Julian Samuel Kountz Elijah McCoy
Andrew Young

Biz Markie


Elder Lucy Smith (here in 1941) led  All Nations Pentecostal Church, Chicago’s largest Pentecostal assembly. The dynamic faith healer migrated from Georgia in 1910. Reverend C.L. Franklin turned New Bethel Baptist into one of the largest and most politically active black churches in Detroit. Father of Aretha Franklin, C.L. grew up in rural Mississippi and held his first pastorate in Memphis. The family moved to Detroit in 1944.
Boxing great Joe Louis with John Roxborough, the attorney/policy king/businessman who, with his partner Julian Black, managed the fighter’s career. Twelve years old when his family moved to Detroit from rural Alabama, Louis broke boxing's color line using the resources of the Black Metropolis.

Children sitting in a cotton wagon in Keiser, Mississippi County


Two brothers of the Nation Of Islam in Boston, Massachusetts.
Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture


Mahalia Jackson Queen Latifah
Tina Turner


The cast of the sitcom 227



Uncle Ben's Rice


Dorothy Dandridge
Mary McLeod Bethune Mary McLeod Bethune with a line of girls from the Daytona Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls (Daytona Beach Florida)

Mother Hale


Michael Jackson


Tia & Tamara H. Rap Brown


Young girl laying injured by a cowardly racist attacker. Marching through Selma Alabama with an American flag.
Danny Glover


Uncle Essick. One of Eickemeyer's most famous photographs, this image of an old man with pipe in hand and looking over his shoulder at the camera is carefully posed and highly romanticized. This man personifies all the nostalgic qualities of those good and polite farmers who lived through slavery Returning From The Field. Eickemeyer captures the physical and mental fatigue of this woman as she returns from a day's work in the field picking cotton. Her dress is as worn as her face, and though she is weary she is determined.

This photograph dated 1868 reveals a very little of the terrible suffering caused to millions of people by the slave trade. This group of severely emaciated boys and young men on the lower deck of a Royal Naval ship apparently have been taken from what was a slave vessel trading illegally. Minister Louis Farrakhan escorted by his sons.




Motivational Speaker Les Brown
Al Sharpton Bob Marley

Frankie Beverly Dreamgirls


Althea Gibson
Althea Gibson in action on the tennis court. Althea Gibson, Beauty, Skills and Intelligence!




Phyllis Hyman

Norbert Rillieux Charles Drew
Norbert Rillieux

Ed Bradley




Floetry


Emmet Till Newspaper Headline Woman crying over Emmett Till's Open Casket.
Emmet Till Open Casket....his mother WANTED the world to see how ugly racism can be and INSISTED that the casket remain OPEN!

Alfre Woodard

Ella Fitzgerald Condolezza Rice
Curly from the Harlem GlobeTrotters.


Alexander O' Neal Obba Babatunde




The Apollo Theatre

Bob Beamon Boyce Watkins Stephanie Queenie St. Clair



Enslaved Black Woman working along a dock in 1862.

Philip Emeagwali

Even while living in such a hostile life threatening environment, we found escape, spiritual nutrition and strength in the simple act of praising God because we always knew He would see us through! An aerial view of the March On Washington which featured Martin Luther King's famous I Have A Dream speech!

VOTE!




James Earl Jones in a scene from the 1973 epic movie The Iceman Cometh.



Gloria Richardson facing off National Guardsmen, Cambridge Maryland May 1964

Charles B. Rangel GrandMaster Maurice Ashley

Michael Vick

Susan Taylor

Ruth Brown Seattle Washington Civil Rights Protest


Nona Hendryx
The Jackson Five in 1969 Mike Tyson

Pounding Rice

Elizabeth Catlett Leontyne Price



Paul Winfield Lou Gossett Jr.
Public Enemy ( It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back! )

General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. General Benjamin O. Davis Sr.

Slave Auction House On Whitehall Street in Atlanta, Georgia in September/November 1864 Freedom Fighter Assata Shakur aka Joanne Chesimard
Desmond Tutu

Fantasia Barrino


Pulaski County, Little Rock Arkansas, 9th Street
The Little Rock 9 Little Rock 9 gets escorted by the military in order to get into school.

World Heavyweight Boxing Champ Muhammad Al & Minister Louis Farrakhan

John Conyers Winnie Mandela Hiram Revels, The 1st African American Senator, 1870-1871 from the state of Mississippi, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician. The only two African Americans to serve as United States Senators in the nineteenth century were Blanche K. Bruce and Hiram Revels, both of Mississippi.




Morgan Freeman Jamie Foxx

Huddie Leadbetter
Mya Judge Bruce M. Wright


Abraham W. Bolden Sr.

Blair Underwood

Walter Mosley Octavia Butler
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dr.Malachi Z. York Ankh
Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer





Father Divine Wallace Thurman
Harlem back in the good old days. Meredith







Farrah Gray


World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Larry Holmes John Lee Hooker
Zora Neale Hurston James Cool Papa Bell


Rita Marley, A Queen in her own right!

Ziggy Marley

Damian Marley Bob Marley
The Lion Of Judah

The Paradise Garage's Legendary House music pioneer and DJ Larry Levan

Zora  Neale Hurston Katherine Dunham
Shaquille O' Neal

Flavor Flav's Gold Capped Smile Bishop Magic Don Juan

Eddie Murphy Levar Burton
Ike Turner The Noble Drew Ali

Terrence Dashon Howard
Terry McMillan, writer who created  the classic How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Ice Cube, Actor and Rapper.

Selma Alabama

Eartha Kitt Leon Spinks


Comedian Flip Wilson Rudy Ray Moore