Police camera video of George Floyd’s arrest and his chilling final moments has now been made public. The video, about an hour in length, comes from the body cameras of former officers Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng.
Massive explosion shakes Lebanon's capital Beirut (videos)
A massive explosion erupted in Lebanon's capital Beirut on Tuesday, August 4. The afternoon blast shook several parts of the capital with Local Red Cross reporting hundreds of injured and widespread damage.
Ibrahim Njoya, the African king who created his own writing system that was destroyed by the French
King Ibrahim Njoya was between the years 1860 to 1933, the 17th ruler of Bamum, a large ethnic group located within what is now western Cameroon.Before his reign at the end of the 19 century, the history of the Bamum people was preserved primarily through oral transmission from one generation to the other.Out of fear that important historical facts of the Bamum could be erased or corrupted, Njoya introduced an alphabet that could be used to write down the history of his people.
Sara Gómez, a Cuban filmmaker who was banned for exposing failed promises to Afro-Cubans
Sara Gómez born November 8, 1942, was a Cuban filmmaker, who by 31 had passed but she left behind a rich body of work. During the early years of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art & Industry (ICAIC), she was one of only two black filmmakers in attendance. She was also the institute’s first and for her lifetime, Cuba’s only woman director. As a revolutionary filmmaker, Gómez focused not only on wider social inequalities that Afro-Cubans were subjected to but specifically “the socio-economic annihilation of Black women in a post-revolutionary Cuba.
Four ancient African languages – older than English spoken till this day.
By some counts, there are more than 3,000 African languages although most linguists on the continent and other places believe the number goes just a little beyond 2,000. All the same, linguistic evolution on the continent has been taking place for over 5,000 years. Some of the languages that were used by the ancestors of old are no more spoken.
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