Essential The Big Thread of Black Excellence

[Patriarch]

The Deele (80's)

The Ojays (70's)

The Chi-lites

The Stylistics

The Commodores

The Isleys

The Dramatics

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRK4AwS3dh8"]The Dramatics "In The Rain" (1971) - YouTube[/ame]

70's >>

Billy Paul

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZ_TOPDosI"]Billy Paul "War Of The Gods" (1973) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Ndiema]

Dedan Kimathi-Leader of the Mau mau rebellion against the white man oppression in Kenya.The rastafarian use of dreadlocks was influenced by The Mau Mau.

First African female to be awarded the nobel peace prize.

Who's that lytskinted nikka?

 

[darius19]

Maya Angelou

 

[Ndiema]

R.I.P Gaddafi

Reggae legends

LUCKY DUBE(S.AFRICA)

BOB THE GOAT

JOSEPH CULTURE HILL

BURNING SPEAR

PETER TOSH

LUCKY DUBE(S.AFRICA)

 

[Ndiema]

African Music Legends

fela kuti(naija)

femi kuti(naija)

Miriam Makeba(S. Africa)

YOSSOU NDOUR(SENEGAL)
PAPA WEMBA(Congo DRC)

 

[Patriarch]

Timothy Bradley

 

[AgentGrey]

Timothy Bradley

came to post this

 

[AAKing23]

Timothy Bradley

My nikka

 

[DalMem]

Timothy Bradley

Yes Sir.

 

[concise]

Poet, 1st president of Senegal, first African elected as a member of the Académie française

Aimé Césaire, one of the founders of the francophone Négritude movement

Alexander Pushkin, arguably the greatest writer in Russian history

 

[concise]

Arthur Lewis, St. Lucia

Won the Nobel Prize in Economics, First in a field other than Peace, still the only one in fields outside of Peace and Literature

 

[concise]

Gil Noble
American television producer, host of WABC's "Like It Is" which focused on black issues and sometimes jazz appreciation.







like it is gil noble - YouTube

 

[concise]

Nobel winners in Literature:

Wole Soyinka, Nigeria

Derek Walcott, Saint Lucia

Toni Morrison, United States of America

 

[Soundbwoy]

Lewis Hamilton won the Canadian Grand Prix for the third time

 

[concise]

While Schomburg was in grade school, one of his teachers claimed that blacks had no history, heroes or accomplishments. Inspired to prove the teacher wrong, Schomburg determined that he would find and document the accomplishments of Africans on their own continent and in the diaspora, including Afro-Latinos, such as Jose Campeche, and later Afro-Americans.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia