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The African Resistance to Enslavement Latin America featuring Runoko Rashidi | 26 Aug 2020
The African Resistance to Enslavement Latin America featuring Runoko Rashidi | 26 Aug 2020 Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 34 Views • 5 years ago

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.

Money, happiness and eternal life - Greed (1/2) | DW Documentary - 2017
Money, happiness and eternal life - Greed (1/2) | DW Documentary - 2017 Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 34 Views • 5 years ago

Can money and power ever make us happy? How much is enough? Our constant desire for more is part of our human nature.

But is greed getting the better of us? Find out in GREED - A FATAL DESIRE.

From Buddhists and bankers to Eskimos and psychologists, we explore the phenomenon of greed with people from all walks of life. How can it be defined? What makes us greedy? And what are the repercussions?

People like to have a lot of stuff because it gives them the feeling of living forever," says American social psychologist Sheldon Solomon. He thinks we have to come to terms with our own mortality before we can break the cycle.

Are there other ways to feel happy and content? Can we simply stop being greedy by changing the way we think?

Watch Part 2 here:
https://youtu.be/qLSt4VtmT5M
Watch the extended cut here: https://youtu.be/CVuVlk2E_e4

Check out our web special:
http://www.dw.com/en/tv/greed/s-32898
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Money, happiness and eternal life - Greed | DW Documentary
Money, happiness and eternal life - Greed | DW Documentary Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 34 Views • 5 years ago

Can money and power ever make us happy? How much is enough? Our constant desire for more is part of our human nature.

Some call it a useful dowry of evolution, others a fault in the human genetic make-up: The old mortal sin Greed seems to be more ubiquitous than ever. Why can't people ever get enough, where is this self-indulgence leading - and are there any ways out of this vicious circle of gratification?

"People like to have a lot of stuff because it makes them the feeling of living forever," says American social psychologist Sheldon Solomon, who believes today's materialism and consumerism will have disastrous consequences.

Anyone who fails to satisfy his or her desires in this age of the Ego is deemed a loser. But with more than 7 billion people on the Earth, the ramifications of this excessive consumption of resources are already clear. Isn’t the deplorable state of our planet proof enough that "The Greed Program," which has made us crave possessions, status and power, is coming to an end? Or is the frenzied search for more and more still an indispensable part of our nature? We set off to look for the essence of greed. And we tell the stories of people who - whether as perpetrators or victims or even just as willing consumers - have become accomplices in a sea change in values.

Check out our web special:
http://www.dw.com/en/tv/greed/s-32898
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