The Fortunate Slave – OnePath Network

Ayuba Suleiman Diallo was born in 1701, Eastern Senegal he was raised in a religious household which led him to memorise the entire Quran at a young age and familiarize himself with the Maliki Madhab (school of thought). Even from a young age, he was revered for his amazing intelligence and incredible memory.

Source: The Fortunate Slave – OnePath Network

Actor Delroy Lindo to Play the Great Marcus Garvey in Upcoming Biographical Movie to Be Released..When? | Urban Intellectuals

There have been a flood of slave movies to hit the market recently depicting black people as weak, downtrodden and powerless or a biopic movies that focus on celebrities, entertainers and those that dance, laugh for a living, but this is something different. This biographical movie is about the one and only, legend of black …

Source: Actor Delroy Lindo to Play the Great Marcus Garvey in Upcoming Biographical Movie to Be Released..When? | Urban Intellectuals

Norway Is First Nation to Ban All Palm Oil Based Biofuel to Prevent Rainforest Destruction

Palm oil-based biofuels will no longer be permitted in Norway, the nation’s parliament announced last week. The move, which aims to thwart the destruction of Indonesian rainforests razed for palm oil plantations, makes Norway the first country to enforce such a ruling.

Source: Norway Is First Nation to Ban All Palm Oil Based Biofuel to Prevent Rainforest Destruction

The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, Never Honored by the United States, Goes on Public View | Smithsonian Voices | National Museum of the American Indian | Smithsonian

Between April 29 and November 6, 1868, tribal leaders from the northern plains came forward to sign a treaty with representatives of the United States government setting aside lands west of the Missouri River for the Sioux and Arapaho tribes. In this written agreement, negotiated at Fort Laramie in what is now Wyoming, the United States guaranteed exclusive tribal occupation of extensive reservation lands, including the Black Hills, sacred to many Native peoples. Within nine years of the treaty’s ratification, Congress seized the Black Hills. By breaking the treaty, the United States initiated a legal battle for ownership of the Black Hills that continues to this day.

Source: The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, Never Honored by the United States, Goes on Public View | Smithsonian Voices | National Museum of the American Indian | Smithsonian

#MonumentalAmerican: Civil Rights activist Elizabeth Jennings

In honor of Black History Month, watch Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle remember Elizabeth Jennings, who desegregated New York’s trolleys 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus. Jennings is a #MonumentalAmerican.

Source: #MonumentalAmerican: Civil Rights activist Elizabeth Jennings