We Wuz Kangz: Occidental Dissent’s Black History Month Resources
Explore some of the greatest kangz in black history
Explore some of the greatest kangz in black history
Now that we are officially in Black History Month 2015, here’s a timely excerpt from Martin Meredith’s new book, The Fortunes of Africa: “After eight […]
Haiti The year is 1899. Hesketh Prichard, a British explorer, adventurer, and travel writer, has arrived in Haiti to see with his own eyes the […]
Equatorial Guinea It wouldn’t be right to let Black History Month 2014 pass here without paying tribute to Francisco Macías Nguema of Equatorial Guinea. Dubbed […]
Third World I stumbled across this book in the course of trying to find out the total amount of money that the West has spent […]
Haiti The Daily Beast has a new article by a 31-year-old journalist who has figured out what is wrong with Haiti. In “The Aid Industry […]
Haiti Insofar as White Nationalists know anything about the history of Haiti, Dr. William Pierce’s classic ADV broadcast “The Lesson of Haiti” is usually the […]
Haiti Of all the Haitian presidents of the nineteenth century, Emperor Faustin I Soulouque attracted the most foreign criticism, and is still considered by some […]
Haiti In 1986, CBS aired a piece by Ed Bradley on the fall of Haiti’s “President-for-Life,” Jean-Claude Duvalier. “Baby Doc,” who ruled Haiti from 1971 […]
New York This example of Spontaneous Blackness happened in New York, not Nigeria:
Chad Al-Jazerra investigates 50 years of independence in Chad: Note: Chad ranks 183 out of 187 countries on the U.N. Human Development Index. It also […]
French Caribbean NewsOne is celebrating February 4 as the 219th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the French Empire. It was on this fateful […]
Mali Arriving in Timbuktu, President François Hollande has been mobbed by thousands of ecstatic Africans as the French military has returned to restore white supremacy and […]
Mali OD kicks off our coverage of Black History Month 2013 by taking a look at the chaos in Northern Mali where the legendary African […]
Saint-Domingue Égalité for All: Touissant L’ouverature and the Haitian Revolution is a PBS documentary about the Haitian Revolution. The Haitian Revolution was the only successful […]
Nigeria Tears of the Sun is a 2003 film starring Bruce Willis about a U.S. Navy Seal rescue team sent into Nigeria during a fictional […]
Sierra Leone Cry Freetown is a 2000 documentary that takes place in Freetown, Sierra Leone in the aftermath of “Operation No Living Thing.” This critically […]
Sierra Leone Blood Diamond is a 2006 film set in the context of the Sierra Leone Civil War. The background story of this movie is […]
Zaire Michela Wrong’s In The Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu’s Congo is an investigative journalist’s take on the […]
Rwanda Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 film about the Rwandan genocide. It tells the true story of Paul Rusesabagina who sheltered 1,268 Tutsi and Hutu […]
Rwanda Shake Hands With The Devil is a 2007 documentary about the Rwandan genocide. The film is based on the book Shake Hands with the […]
Democratic Republic of Congo Over the last 52 years, Léopoldville (now “Kinshasa”) has undergone the most extreme form of man made “climate change” anywhere on […]
Democratic Republic of Congo Americans are accustomed to dealing with natural disasters. California has its earthquakes. Florida has its hurricanes. Kansas has its tornadoes. Arizona […]
South Sudan Last July, the Republic of South Sudan was launched with much excitement as Africa’s 54th state and the world’s newest black nation. The […]
Ethiopia Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia belongs with Charles Taylor of Liberia and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe in the Greatest Dictators of Africa Hall of […]
Africa Africa Addio (Farewell Africa) is a 1966 Italian documentary that explores the triumph of freedom and equality in post-colonial Africa. Decried as a “brutal, […]
Democratic Republic of Congo In the American imagination, Detroit symbolizes the depths to which civilization under the Black Undertow is capable of sinking. Black History […]
Democratic Republic of Congo Patrice Lumumba was the Congolese version of Malcolm X and Barack Hussein Obama. In June 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo […]
Rhodesia It was arguably the lowest moment in British history. Faced with the terrifying prospect of black majority rule, the colony of Southern Rhodesia was […]
Zimbabwe “Mugabe and the White African” is a documentary and book that tells the story of Mike Campbell and family and their legal struggle to […]
Liberia “He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him.” Don Cheadle and Chris Rock made headlines last year by […]
Liberia I hope you are enjoying OD’s unique celebration of Black History Month 2012. We have assumed responsibility in the blogosphere this year of commemorating […]
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