Kibera Slum | Nairobi, Kenya

Filmed highlights of the May 27, 1972 African Liberation Day held in Washington, DC to demonstrate support for Black freedom fighters in Africa and to foster Pan-Africanism.

#AfricaLiberationDay

From the South African jazz composer's 2015 album 'Listening to the Ground.'

Black Heritage Series produced in 1969, WHERE DID THEY COME FROM, AFRICAN ORIGINS OF ORGANIZED SOCIETIESspeaker is Dr. John Henrik Clarke editor of FreedomWays Magazinefrom Wikipedia: John Henrik Clarke (born John Henry Clark), (January 1, 1915 - July 12, 1998) was an African-American historian, professor, and a pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies, and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s

WorldBeat Cultural Center Presents: Afro-Mexican History Month

The African Presence in Latin America, a three-part online series featuring renowned historian, Dr. Runoko Rashidi.  This livestreamed event looks at The African Resistance to Enslavement in Latin America, including slave revolts and maroon communities. Event takes place on August 26th, 2020 at 6pm.

The series continues in  September  3. Part 3 is an overview of the African Presence in Latin America Today, including Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico and Panama.

Each presentation is beautifully illustrated with brilliant original photographs presented by Dr Runoko Rashidi.


 Runoko Rashidi is an anthropologist and historian with a major focus on what he calls the Global African Presence that is, Africans outside of Africa before and after enslavement. He is the author or editor of eighteen books, the most recent of which are My Global Journeys in Search of the African Presence and Assata-Garvey and Me: A Global African Journey for Children in 2017. As a traveler and researcher Dr. Rashidi has visited 120 countries. As a lecturer and presenter, he has spoken in sixty-five countries. Runoko has worked with and under some of the most distinguished scholars of our generation, including Ivan Van Sertima, John Henrik Clarke, Asa G. Hilliard, Edward Scobie, John G. Jackson, Jan Carew and Yosef ben-Jochannan.