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I just read this AMAZING article  From OUT OF THIS CENTURY, And I just had to share it here. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did, even though there’s no Capoeira in it.

By Ben Miller

When asked to recall a great martial artist of African descent born in the Americas, the average person is likely to mention a twentieth-century boxer such as Joe Louis, or a more rec…

Source: The Greatest African American and Afro-American Martial Artists in History | Out of This Century

The conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians continues to take its toll, and in Jerusalem, Palestinians of African descent are among those most severely impacted by the cycle of violence. Israeli security measures imposed last year are having a debilitating effect on the Muslim Quarter in Jerusalem’s Old

Source: In Jerusalem, Afro-Palestinians Are the Hardest Hit in the Israeli Occupation

Several important pieces of primary documentary evidence have now become freely available to scholars, students, and anyone interested in the history of American slavery, one an autobiography written in Arabic by Omar Ibn Said, an enslaved Muslim man who was actively encouraged to read and write by his North Carolina owners.

Source: The Only Surviving Text Written in Arabic by an American Slave Has Been Digitized & Put Online: Read the Autobiography of Enslaved Islamic Scholar, Omar Ibn Said (1831) | Open Culture

‘Congo Tales’ is a look the fables and myths of the Congolese living in the Mbomo district. Celebrity photographer Pieter Henket captures reenactments of these tales in his signature cinematic style.

Source: Congolese Fables Preserved in Stunning Photography Book

In the spring of 1968, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover announced to his agents that COINTELPRO, the counter-intelligence program established in 1956 to combat communists, should focus on preventing the rise of a “Black ‘messiah’”

Source: The FBI’s Forgotten War on Black-Owned Bookstores | SHOPPE BLACK