The Maroon Village

Just a young Nigerian male born in Amerikkka that's ready for the revolution. . I listen to mainly 90s hip-hop, jazz, reggae, and Afrikan-centered music. What I post on this blog is meant to portray and display the truth and oppression of Afrikans on the continent and the Diaspora. If you find an information or pictures that grabs your attention or you or anger you, all I can advise you is with the quote from the late Marcus Garvey saying, "don't remove the kinks out of your hair, remove them from your mind." I leave all these with you and anticipation of the rise of the melanin beings. Unification.

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You are invited to a Revolutionary Brainstorming Session November 14th, 2020

You are invited to a Revolutionary Brainstorming Session November 14th, 2020

Interested in Kheru wa Ankobia Brainstorming Session?

KWA asks How can we work together to bring Africa closer to Pan-African Unity and a revolutionary mindset in 2021?

Africans will not be revolutionary without Africans…

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saw this on insta and had to share here

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ALTHEA GIBSON

The first African-American athlete to break the color line in international tennis, winning French Open in 1956, Wimbledon & U.S. Open in 1957 (and again all three in 1958). Named Female Athlete Of The Year in both 1957 & 1958 by the Associated Press. #BlackHistoryMonth #Day4

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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST MY GRANDMOTHER IS MISSING!! LAST SEEN 02/24/2020 ON CLARKSON/ NOSTRAND AVENUE IN BROOKLYN SHE HAS DEMENTIA AND DIABETES

IF ANYONE HAS SEEN HER PLEASE CONTACT ME OR PLEASE CALL THE POLICE!!!!!

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New Yorkers, please read, everyone else, please boost.

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Kalief Browder was arrested at the age of 16, on charges of robbery (for allegedly stealing a backpack) and imprisoned without conviction for three years.

Unable to post $3,000 bail, Kalief was sent to Rikers Island to await his trial.

After more than 1,000 days at Rikers awainting trial, over 800 of them in solitary confinement, Kalief was released and his case was later dismissed.

In June 2015, Kalief Browder committed suicide by hanging himself. The conditions of his detention were widely seen as having caused his mental condition and five or six prior attempts at suicide while incarcerated.

Kalief was 22 years old when he died.

Venida Browder, 63, the mother of Kalief Browder, died Friday at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx. 

She died of a broken heart.

RIP to you both…

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American Terrorism… Lynching Postcards

Terrorism is defined as “the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.” Western media likes to paint terrorists with a brown face, but one of the most horrific campaigns of terror happened in the past century on American soil – the estimated 3,436 lynchings of black American men and women between 1882 and 1950, intended to control and intimidate the recently freed black population. There is nothing more disturbing than being confronted with visual evidence of humanity’s dark heart, especially when it is evidence of a widespread, mainstream hatred for and violence towards one another. Hatred that stems from fear, and is driven by religion and a belief that murder is morality made distorted flesh; violence that aims to cow and suppress any aspirations a community might have for equality and a brighter future.

When I came across this collection of American postcards from James Allen and John Littlefield, published in a book entitled Without Sanctuary, I saw how important it is to look at these images, today more than ever. These postcards were made to commemorate events that made many American white people feel proud – of their race, of their superiority, of their civilization and their intelligence. They took photos of their disgusting, cowardly accomplishments and memorialized them for future generations, to be found and collected and remembered by their descendents. On the backs, they wrote to friends and family in sociopathic excitement about the mob the participated in. These postcards capture the mobs witnessing with glee the murder of young men and women, whose most serious crime was the color of their skin. The corpses hanging and charred in these postcards lived in a world that counted down the days until their murder from the second they drew air into their infant lungs. This history is potent, stomach-churning and of essential importance to the America of today, and to the world of today. And the most striking thing about these photographs is that they don’t erase the perpetrators like many histories and memorials do today, preferring to focus on who was victimized rather than on those who proudly – and with government backing – tortured, raped and murdered people. The murderers in these photos stand proud, grown men looking at the camera with the smiling conviction that the teenage boy they just killed, one against a hundred, was deserving of their hatred, fear and frustration. No grand jury needed; the law was in the hands of the murderers.

History is not linear; history is happening all around us, all the time. These photos are context, they are reality, they are pictures of American terrorism. Read James Allen’s commentary below and be aware that these photos are sickening, and all too real.

Africans in America mounted resistance to white people lynchings in numerous ways. Intellectuals and journalists encouraged public education, actively protesting and lobbying against lynch mob violence and government complicity in that violence. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), as well as numerous other organizations, organized support from white and black Americans alike and conducted a national campaign to get a federal anti-lynching law passed. African American women’s clubs raised funds to support the work of public campaigns, including anti-lynching plays. Their petition drives, letter campaigns, meetings and demonstrations helped to highlight the issues and combat lynching.[4] In the Great Migration, extending in two waves from 1910 to 1970, 6.5 million African Americans left the South, primarily for destinations in northern and mid-western cities, both to gain better jobs and education and to escape the high rate of violence.

From 1882 to 1968, “…nearly 200 anti-lynching bills were introduced in Congress, and three passed the House. Seven presidents between 1890 and 1952 petitioned Congress to pass a federal law.”[5] In 1920 theRepublican Party promised at its national convention to support passage of such a law. In 1921 Leonidas C. Dyer from Saint Louissponsored an anti-lynching bill; it was passed in January 1922 in the United States House of Representatives, but a Senate filibuster by the Southern white Democratic block defeated it in December 1922. With the NAACP, Representative Dyer spoke across the country in support of his bill in 1923 and tried to gain passage that year and the next, but was defeated by the Southern Democratic block.

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DO NOT BE SCARED TO REBLOG THIS. WHETHER YOU OR YOUR FOLLOWERS WANT TO SEE THIS OR NOT, IT NEEDS TO BE SEEN.

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Oh my fucking god. This was a fucking hundred years ago. These were your grandparents parents.

POSTCARDS?!?

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White people were the first terrorist…

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Never forget.

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White people own your history

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😠😠😠😠😠😠

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These acts are acts of terrorism.

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sad, but true. This is why I and you should chosen to education yourself and be successful in life. To revenge those people who did such a terrible crime in American history. This is how I feel about it. The only thing I can do is be successful in life. “We such overcome”. 

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Thank you

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I heard about this in my town went to the spot but seeing it on here is a eye opener East Spencer is one of the last black Towns and I aimed to saved this happen at the beginning of out all black town

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Smh I live in Dallas TX. I Never knew that part about our history wtf 😡🤬

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man this is truly heartbreaking, wish someone could look into this..

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this reminds me of Kalief Browder(Rest forever), this is a travesty.

please boost

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There is a group in Illinois called First Defense Legal Aide

#800 Law.rep.4

They are a free legal service, they will not be able to directly help this guy, but they may know lawyers who can look into the case.

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AFRICANGLOBE – A New York federal court has dismissed a lawsuit by the Herero and Nama people seeking compensation from Germany for the genocide of their ancestors in what is now Namibia.

https://www.africanglobe.net/africa/york-court-compensating-namibians-genocide-committed-germany/

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Toussaint L'ouverture: The Fight for Haiti’s Freedom

Author - Walter Dean Myers  

Illustrator - Jacob Lawrence

Publisher - Simon & Schuster  (1996)

The liberation of Haiti under Toussaint L'Ouverture, a freed slave who became general of the slave army, which rose against the French in 1791, is told in exciting, factual narrative and enhanced by bold, full-color paintings.

Purchase

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when a person is constantly posting about releasing toxic people (every year, every month or w.e) I automatically assume that person is in fact the toxic one.

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As The World Awaits The Report On The Missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi

What exactly was the resolution of the Church Committee and the CIA’S role the assassination of Patrice Lumumba?

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We want to implement ideas that will improve our website, engage guest writers and reviewers, as well as offer other services and events that will reach a wider audience. There is a great need for parents, educators, librarians, community leaders, and those who just love reading to find diverse and inclusive stories by Black authors. BCBA fills that need. Now, we need your support.

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Happy Birthday Thomas Sankara! December 21, 1949

Sankara was a Marxist revolutionary and a feminist Pan-Africanist leader, President of Burkina Faso assassinated in a military coup. A week before his death, Sankara said in reference to Che Guevara, “Revolutionaries and individuals can be murdered, but ideas never die.”

Via teleSUR English

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Nevaeh now wears a scarf to cover several bald spots and her singed hair. She was left with first-degree burns, but it could have been worse according to Tanya Robinson, Nevaeh’s mother.

“The doctor told me her hairstyle saved her life,” Tanya recalled. “Had it been different, she might not be here.”

This isn’t the first time Nevaeh has experienced bullying. Two years ago, another student broke her thumb.

I’m walking into that school like

Hate crime. It should qualify as one.

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Nevaeh is thirteen years old. This happened at Gompers School in the Philadelphia School District. The school district has not issued any comment, but y'all can make yours:

Samuel Gompers School

Address: 5701 Wynnefield Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19131

District: The School District of Philadelphia

Phone: [phone]

The School District of Philadelphia

Address:  440 N Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19130

Phone: [phone]

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This is painful. I have no words..

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My fucking heart is filled with so much angry hurt

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A couple weeks ago i saw this piece by Victor Muniz and was almost brought to tears

Zoom in on the picture to see what collage makes up the mugshots

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I sobbed. I’m so hurt.

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As The World Awaits The Report On The Missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi

What exactly was the resolution of the Church Committee and the CIA’S role the assassination of Patrice Lumumba?

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Article below:

She went to the hospital to have her baby. Now her husband is raising two kids alone

“We walked in for what we expected to be the happiest day of our life. And we walked straight into a nightmare.”

🎵 “You know I think the sun rises and shines on you”🎵

In the beginning, there was a man, a woman and a song.

Frankie Beverly’s “Before I Let Go” blasted over the sound system at a birthday party when Charles Johnson saw Kira. In that moment, he did something very out of character. He began singing along, serenading the stranger at first sight.

“She just cracked this smile that was like from wall to wall, and it was history,” Charles remembered.

Ten years later, only one of them would be alive to share their love story and the conversation it sparked about mothers, medical care and racism.

🎵 “We were so close. Our love was strong”🎵

Kira Johnson is described as unstoppable. She spoke five languages, traveled the world and raced cars with Charles by her side. The couple had their first child, Charles Johnson V, about a year before their spontaneous wedding in Mexico.

In 2016 they were expecting again.

“We always wanted back-to-back boys. When we found out that we were welcoming another boy, we were just ecstatic,” Charles recalled.

He said Kira never missed a prenatal visit and got great reports every time. All signs pointed to a healthy delivery.

🎵 “You made me happy, this you can bet. Stood right beside me, and I won’t forget” 🎵

Charles said he knew his wife was admitted into the hospital in exceptional health and delivered a healthy baby boy. However, he realized something was wrong as he watched her struggle in the recovery room.

He noticed blood in Kira’s catheter. He said he brought it to the attention of the nurses and doctors, and the staff ordered a CT scan.

“That was supposed to be performed STAT,” Charles said. “In my mind, I’m thinking, ‘That means immediately.’”

Charles said he repeatedly asked the medical staff for help, but waited for hours.

“She’s beginning to tremble uncontrollably,“ Charles recalled. “She’s beginning to shake. She’s beginning to be in increasingly more pain. She’s becoming sensitive to the touch. There’s still no CT scan.”

Charles said a CT was never performed, and they waited seven hours before doctors took her back for an internal exam.

🎵 “Nothing that I would not do. Before I let you go” 🎵

When the time came to examine Kira, Charles said the doctor told him they would fix the problem.

“'She’ll be back in 15 minutes,” Charles said the doctor told him. “And that was the last time I saw Kira alive.”

Charles said doctors found three liters of blood in Kira’s stomach and her heart stopped immediately.

Less than 12 hours after giving birth to their second child, Kira Johnson died from a hemorrhage.

“We walked in for what we expected to be the happiest day of our life. And we walked straight into a nightmare,” Charles said. “I sit awake at nights thinking maybe I should have grabbed somebody by the collar, maybe I should’ve turned a table over, would that have made a difference? Even two years later, I still can’t make sense of it in my mind.”

Charles’ mother is Glenda Hatchett.She operates a law firm in Atlanta, but is also known from her nationally syndicated reality court TV show Judge Hatchett. She and her daughter-in-law Kira were very close. She was at the hospital before Langston was born. The news about Kira’s death devastated her.

“She was so excited that Langston was coming. She should be here,” Hatchett said.

Mothers are dying

Kira’s case isn’t unique. Pregnancy-related deaths are increasing in the United States more than in another other country in the developed world.

In 2015, the Global Burden of Disease Study revealed that for every 100,000 births there are 26 mothers who die in the U.S. In comparison, the death count is nine in the United Kingdom, seven in Canada, and four in Italy, Sweden and Denmark.

At least 700 women die in the U.S. every year from pregnancy-related causes, according to a report from the Nine Maternal Mortality Review Committee. These deaths occur during pregnancy, during childbirth or up to a year after delivery. More than half of all deaths have been deemed preventable by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“There is no acceptable maternal mortality. It is a fundamental measure of a nation’s health and health care system. So what this would say about ours, is that ours isn’t all that healthy, and we’ve got a lot of work to do,” explained Dr. William Callaghan, chief of the CDC’s Maternal and Infant Health Branch.

Two years after Johnson’s death Cedars-Sinai Hospital released the following statement regarding her death:

Kira Johnson’s death was a tragedy. Her husband, Charles S. Johnson IV, is demonstrating important leadership in raising awareness of preventable maternal deaths. Cedars-Sinai strongly agrees with Mr. Johnson and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that no mother should die giving birth.

While federal privacy laws prevent us from responding directly about any patient’s care without written authorization, we can share the following: One of the reasons for Cedars-Sinai’s high quality of care is that we thoroughly investigate any situation where there are concerns about a patient’s medical care. Based on our findings, we make any changes that are needed so that we can continue to provide the highest quality care to our patients. This includes reviewing hospital procedures as well as the competency of healthcare providers.

Hatchett believes Kira’s death could have been prevented.

“They researched, they were in Los Angeles, they knew that Cedar Sinai was a world-class hospital and after she died, they said ‘Oh, had we gotten her back to the operating room she would be perfectly fine. Oh if we had…’ Well why the hell didn’t they? It was not that she was sick, it’s not that she had a preexisting condition, that she had a heart problem or she had a blood clot, none of that was Kira’s case.”

Full article and pictures here.