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Show format is to engage educators, philosophers, and intellectuals, on the Globe, to a conversation to discuss field studies of various aspects of knowledge.

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Leroy F. Bennett Leroy was born April 5, 1961 in Orange, New Jersey and is the son of Samuel and Dorothy Bennett. He is attended the East Orange Public School District where he graduated from Clifford J. Scott High School. Leroy... more
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A COURT MARTIAL, A HOLLOW SQUARE AND A FIRING SQUAD WILL SETTLE THE MATTER FOR ONCE AND FOR ALL. 1917: Thirteen black soldiers of the 24th U.S. Infantry Regiment HANGED No white Houstonian was ever... more
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African Proverbs 1. Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not wash out the spots (Ashanti) 2. Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight (Ashanti) 3. You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla (Congo) 4.... more
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Aesop Fables 620 to 560 BCE The idea that Aesop was Ethiopian has been further encouraged by the presence of camels, elephants, and apes in the fables, even though these African elements are more likely to have come from Egypt,... more
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TERENCE AFER (around 195 B.C. to 159 B.C.) died at sea, or murdered in Greece, was born in Carthage (Northern Africa). Terence was a North African who came to Rome where he wrote influential comedies in the Fabula Palliata form.... more
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Phillis Wheatley Born in 1753 in Africa, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped and sold at a slave auction at age seven to a prosperous Boston family who educated her and treated her as a family member. Rescued from an otherwise hopeless... more
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Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) was said to have been born a slave on a ship crossing the Atlantic from Africa to the West Indies. Although this is now thought to be unlikely, his origins were African while his earliest memories were of... more
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On April 10, 1833, a 26-year-old American actor did the unthinkable. He stepped in front of the footlights of the largest and most prestigious theater in London to play Othello without makeup. His name was Ira Aldridge, and he was a... more
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This Episode is dedicated to my observations within the last 50 years and its Movements. The Black Panther Party was a progressive political organization that stood in the vanguard of the most powerful movement for social change in... more
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