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Why Are All Ancient Humans Black?
Why Are All Ancient Humans Black? Kwabena Ofori Osei 31 Views • 2 months ago

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For over a million years, every human on Earth was dark-skinned — and the reason will completely rewire how you think about the human body.

If you shaved a chimpanzee, the skin underneath would be pale pink. So why is human skin bare, exposed, and — for 99% of our species' history — uniformly dark?

The answer isn't really about color at all. It's about fur, sweat, endurance running, and a single evolutionary "design package" that built the body you're using right now.

In this video, we trace how losing our fur forced our ancestors to evolve a biological sunscreen on the African equator — and why dark skin, not pale skin, is the true human default.

Dans cette vidéo :
• Why every great ape has pale skin under its fur — but humans don't
• How losing body hair turned us into the planet's best endurance machine
• The brutal biology of UVB, folate, and why pale skin near the equator was a death sentence
• How melanin became the keystone holding the entire human body together
• Why light skin is a recent "edit" that only appeared after we left Africa

📚 Sources :
— Skin pigmentation and UV radiation correlation (Jablonski & Chaplin, Journal of Human Evolution) :
— Evolution of fur loss and parasite avoidance (Pagel & Bodmer, Proceedings of the Royal Society B) :
— Endurance running and human evolution (Lieberman & Bramble) :
— Persistence hunting among the San (Liebenberg) :
— MC1R gene and the fixation of dark skin in the human lineage :

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Link Up Podcast — Ep 14 | Ft. Dr. Monique Swift Muhammad (Black Psychology, Sankɔfa Journey, Spirit)
Link Up Podcast — Ep 14 | Ft. Dr. Monique Swift Muhammad (Black Psychology, Sankɔfa Journey, Spirit) Kwento xpr 31 Views • 15 days ago

⁣Link Up Podcast — Ep 14 | Ft. Dr. Monique Swift Muhammad (Black Psychology, Sankɔfa Journey, Spirit)

Hosts: Niara Esi Ìjèawelē Ọmọlará Kwento & Bakari Kwadwo Ọbatayé Kwento

Akɔaba, Woezɔ, Oɔbaake (welcome) to another episode of Link Up Podcast, where we connect with Abibifoɔ (Black People) doing Black powerful work across Abibiman (the Black Land) and the diaspora.

In this episode, we Link Up with Dr. Monique Swift Muhammad, a licensed counselor, with over thirty years of clinical mental health experience and the current president of the Association of Black Psychologists. Dr. Muhammad takes us through her upbringing in Staten Island, experiencing anti-Black racism, the refuge of Black community, and the transformation that came through Black Studies at Rutgers University. We discuss the influence of her professors, her journey into psychology, and the work that eventually brought her into leadership within the Association of Black Psychologists. She also shares her experiences traveling throughout Abibiman (The Black Land), from her first Sankɔfa Journey to Ghana, and various other locations.

The conversation moves deeper into Black psychology, the psychological consequences of operating within foreign cultural systems, and why true healing requires reconnecting with who we are as Black people. We discuss the importance of Black-controlled spaces, the relationship between Black consciousness in the diaspora and cultural foundations in Abibiman, and the need to bring these together through organized international work, including the Decade of Our Repatriation (D.O.O.R.) initiative. Dr. Muhammad also shares her vision for strengthening the Association of Black Psychologists, the opportunities and dangers of technology and artificial intelligence, and why Black liberation must move beyond intellectual understanding to a deeper reconnection with spirit, ancestors, and collective Black purpose.

This is a conversation about Black psychology, Sankɔfa Journey, healing, spirit, Black Power, repatriation, and the work required to restore the Black mind, reconnect the Black world, and build institutions capable of advancing Abibifahodie (Black Liberation).

Feel free to share your thoughts, and Link Up!

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Link Up Podcast, Dr. Monique Swift Muhammad, Association of Black Psychologist, Healing, Counseling, D.O.O.R., Abibitumi, R2GH, Abibinnwom, Abibitumi

Afrikan anti-amerikkkan King Embraces African Languages & Culture
Afrikan anti-amerikkkan King Embraces African Languages & Culture Ọbádélé Kambon 30 Views • 7 years ago

Awesome informative session with the King Obadele Kambon. He has successfully repatriated to Ghana and assists others to do the same. Check him out at:
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