The origins of blues are not unlike the origins of life. For many years it was recorded only by memory, and relayed only live, and in person. The Blues were born in the holes of slave ships in route to the Mississippi Delta and the gigantic plantations of Louisiana, Georgia, South and North Carolina long before the Civil War. The music was Influenc…

We will look at these issues from an Afrikan World View using whatever resources that we need to help us understand the problems of our times. We will discuss what’s happening with Afrika and Afrikans from an Afrikan Perspective Please join us every Monday, Wednesday and Friday 11am-1pm EST, 10am-12pm CST, 9am-11am MST, 8am-10am PST or Access our a…

If you are clear that we must gain control of the economics of our community and are serious about building this new reality, this call is for youAf Motherland Media Network

We will look at these issues from an Afrikan World View using whatever resources that we need to help us understand the problems of our times. We will discuss what’s happening with Afrika and Afrikans from an Afrikan Perspective Please join us every Monday, Wednesday and Friday 11am-1pm EST, 10am-12pm CST, 9am-11am MST, 8am-10am PST or Access our a…

It is often said that Booker T. Washington was one of the most misunderstood leaders in America. If one, however, examines closely his actions, philosophy, accomplishments and results, one will not question the quality of his leadership. How was it possible for Washington to achieve any level of leadership success having lived under the cloud of “c…

In this country, we don’t talk about slavery. We don’t talk about lynching. Worse, we’ve created the counternarrative that says we have nothing about which we should be ashamed. Our past is romantic and glorious. In my state of Alabama, Jefferson Davis’s birthday is a state holiday. Confederate Memorial Day is a state holiday. We don’t even have Ma…

African spoken comedy has always been a major pillar and source of therapy in African life. It is central to the African oral tradition. It can be traced from the court yards of the great African kingdoms; to the dungeons of the slave ships in the middle passage; to the slave quarters of the old south; to the liquor houses of segregation; to the mi…

If you are clear that we must gain control of the economics of our community and are serious about building this new reality this call is for you.Af Motherland Media Network

Our conversation this week features one of the great Funk Masters of our time Mr. Harvey Scales. Joining Mr. Scales in our conversation is a band member who played trombone in a popular funk band back in the late 70’s early 80’s, Mr. Michael Rogers. Mr. Rogers played with the brother of the late great James Brown, Little Royal and the Swing Masters…

We will look at these issues from an Afrikan World View using whatever resources that we need to help us understand the problems of our times. We will discuss what’s happening with Afrika and Afrikans from an Afrikan Perspective Please join us every Monday, Wednesday and Friday 11am-1pm EST, 10am-12pm CST, 9am-11am MST, 8am-10am PST or Access our a…

According to Dr. Amos Wilson, "the role Eurocentric history-writing plays in rationalizing European oppression of Afrikan peoples and in the falsification of Afrikan consciousness... that the alleged mental and behavioral maladaptiveness of oppressed Afrikan peoples is a political-economic necessity for the maintenance of White domination and imper…

Is an economic and political agenda based on the principles of Kujichagulia (self-determination) possible for African people living in America? The lens that might offer clarity in answering that question could be infused within the aftermath strategies of the Detroit Race Riots of 1967. In the aftermath of that rebellion, Black Power advocates in …

If you are clear that we must gain control of the economics of our community and are serious about building this new reality, this call is for you.Af Motherland Media Network

W. E. B. Du Bois in his seminal work The Souls of Black Folk concludes with an essay on the richness and perseverance of gospel music. The sorrow songs, as he calls them, are not only the "most beautiful expression of human experience born this side of the seas," but Du Bois also contends that spirituals are the only distinctly "American music" for…

If you are clear that we must gain control of the economics of our community and are serious about building this new reality, this call is for youAf Motherland Media Network

Parents are the first teachers. What are we teaching our children to strive for entreprenuership or employment? Is it really necessary to decolonize our education systems? What is economic liberation?Af Motherland Media Network

One cannot delve seriously into the centuries of activism and scholarship against racism, Jim Crowism, and the terrorism of lynching without encountering the legacies of Timothy Thomas Fortune and Ida B. Wells Barnett. Black scholars from the 19th century to the present have been inspired by the sociological and economic works of Fortune and Wells.…

The majority of the populace understand that times have changed regarding health education of our children as they become parents and caregivers. Today, we will discuss puberty and cleanliness as a conjugate, and the importance of cleanliness during various stages of puberty.Af Motherland Media Network

The words of Carter G. Woodson are key to understanding the process of emasculating the black man in America. “When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his ‘proper place’ and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He…