The Power of My Black Hand

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Yesterday evening I went to Ghana! Students Reclaiming Twi! just took me home.

We’ll it seemed like home, anyway.   Check out the great work that’s going on in the ATL. Check out the video. 

Poetry Lance Jeffers
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by Dr. Robert D. Bullard

Back in 1987, the environmental racism movement won its first significant victory. Twenty years later, a cadre of Black and progressive scientists are calibrating the methodical harm that has been done to Black communities by a society that treats people of color as wasted human flesh. The Bush administration has done everything in its power… Continue on Black Agenda Reports

by Amy Goodman

Entertainer/producer/activist Harry Belafonte turned 80 this month, “a living library of not only the civil rights movement, but of liberation struggles around the world.” Friend, advisor and confidant of Paul Robeson, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and generations of other strugglers, Belafonte remains an outspoken nemesis of “house Negroes” and their racist benefactors…

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Welcome to another edition of Power of My Black Hand on AYA Radio-Vision.

Thank you for tuning in the the live show on the 7th when Baba Obadele interviewed Mama Marimba Ani.  If you missed it, you missed it!   

She detailed:

• How she learned of Dr. Clarke’s death while she was in Ghana
• How the decision was made to create a shrine for him in Ghana
• How Mama Sybil Williams-Clarke confided that Baba Clarke really wanted to be buried in Ghana
• Where the name “Abakosem Sunsum” came from
• What is Afrikan ancestal veneration and  how that differs from European “memorials.”
• What is Afrikan spritual warfare
• and much, much more including information on this years national Abakosem Sunsum event on Saturday May 5th, 2007

Want to hear it anyway? Don’t worry, we gotcha covered.  Visit the links below on The Power of My Black Hand website to  listen to the interviews  and see the photos from the last 3 Ancestral ventration ceremonies. Photos by Kwado Gyase Nkita Mayala (first set)  and Ife Madzimoyo. If you like what you hear leave your comments and help us build AYA Radio-Vision.

• http://ayaradiovision.com/power/1/
• http://ayaradiovision.com/power/2/
• http://ayaradiovision.com/power/3/