Black History Month 2012: Review: Égalité for All
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 […]
Black History Month 2012
Black History Month 2012: Review: Tears of the Sun
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 […]
Black History Month 2012: Review: Cry Freetown
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 […]
Black History Month 2012: Review: Blood Diamond
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 […]
Black History Month 2012: Review: In The Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
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 […]
Black History Month 2012: Kin La Poubelle
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 […]
Black History Month 2012: Rape in the Congo
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 […]
Black History Month 2012: The Bloody Birth of South Sudan
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 […]
Black History Month 2012: Mengistu Haile Mariam’s Red Terror
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 […]
Black History Month 2012: Review: Africa Addio
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, […]
Black History Month 2012: Review: Lumumba
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 […]
Black History Month 2012: Review: “Mugabe and the White African”
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 […]
Black History Month 2012: “Greater Liberia” Goes Full Gangsta
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 […]
Black History Month 2012: The (Black) “Land of the Free”
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 […]
Black History Month 2012: Le Vieux’s Ghost Town Capital
Côte d’Ivoire African-Americans are still recovering from the shocking news that a DNA test has confirmed that King Tut was of European ancestry. As we […]
African-Americans for Obama
District of Corruption BRA’s first “post-racial” president announces the racialized nature of his 2012 re-election campaign. Note: The Left easily shifts rhetorical gears between colorblind […]
Black History Month 2012: Emperor Bokassa’s Coronation
Central African Republic African-Americans were thoroughly disappointed by the results of King Tut’s DNA test which showed that Pharoah Tutankhamun and his father Akhenaten were […]
Black History Month 2012: DNA Test Results Show King Tut Wasn’t Black
Egypt I have been saving this one for a special occasion. You know you are living in Black Run Amerika (BRA) … when the Sons […]