As part of the Great Museums T.V. Series, here’s one entitled “American Soul: The DuSable Museum of African-American History.” The episode is also airing on Hulu.
The DuSable Museum of African-American History
Tags: African-American, chicago, dusable, iheritage guide, museum, pbs
Remembering
Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson are the names of the four little girls who lost their lives in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963 when their church was bombed.
Birmingham Civil Rights District
Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to join a The History and Consequences Study Tour organized by the National Black Arts Festival. The one day experience included a bus trip from Atlanta to Birmingham, a visit and presentation at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, lunch at Glory’s Family Dining, and a walk through the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Kelly Ingram Park. During the round trip bus ride, we also viewed videos about the Civil Rights Movement.
Birmingham requires many future visits to fully cover and comprehend its history. But from our day’s visit, one of the major take-aways for me was the need to remember the many unsung heroes who lost their lives in a movement to provide us all equal rights. Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins, and Carole Robertson, commonly referred to as the “Four Little Girls“, should be known by their full names, forcing us to introduce ourselves to their lives and learn about them, their family, and the community that sustained such a tragic loss.
About a 2.5 hours drive west from Atlanta, Birmingham is a must see. The Civil Rights District showcases one of the epicenters of the struggle for equality and should not be missed.
My Sweetie
For the first blog post of 2010, it’s good to start with new music. This one is from the DMV’s Wale and his latest song ‘My Sweetie,’ a song many in the African community are familiar with from house parties, clubs, and other gatherings.
Check out the lyrics when Wale says “Money on the floor, Throw it on a broad. This is not baller, this our culture.” Instead of the typical bling bling version of throwing money around, he is referring to the tradition of placing money on the forehead as a form of appreciation to good dancers. Enjoy the video and the original version by Bunny Mack which was the sampled for Wale’s version.
Also, congrats to the Bernos camp for their Afro-inspired t-shirts appearing twice in the video.
Tags: bunny mack, dc, ghana, hip hop, my sweet, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, wale
Breaking In Uganda
Break Dance Battle -(One of the Best I’ve Ever Seen)
Hip-Hop at H.E.A.L.S. in Gulu, Uganda
Tags: break dance, breaking, hip hop, kampala, uganda
Custom GeoDirectory App
Customized iPhone GeoDirectory App
After launching our iHeritage Guide iPhone app, we received a great amount of inquiries about the use of the platform and ability to have one’s brand present on the iPhone. So, we went back to the lab and decided to create the GeoDirectory App Platform so that anyone can access the power of being on the iPhone/iTouch. Organizations that benefit from this technology are those involved in:
Tourism Promotion
Business Listings
Cultural Specific Directories
City and County Guides
Conference Marketing
School or Campus Guides
For more information, please click here.
Jermaine Dupri - Back In The Days
This clip is interesting. It shows the young Jermaine Dupri way back in the days(1986). This is before producing the likes of Mariah Carey, TLC, Kriss Kross, and tons of others.
Tags: atlanta, hip hop, jermain dupri, producer
The Soul of Ashanti
Will be airing soon on the Africa Channel.
Tags: africa channel, ashanti, film, ghana, golden stool, soul of ashanti, west africa
Music to See: All Around the A
Been a minute since we’ve posted a music video. This one is definitely representing the motherland with Nazizi from Kenya, Naeto C from Nigeria, HHP and Proverb from South Africa, Zeus and Cybil Knight from Botswana, produced in Johannesburg, and video shot in Alexandria.
Tags: africa, Alexandria, botswana, Cybil Knight, HHP, hip hop, Joburg, kenya, Naeto C, Nazizi, Nigeria, Proverb, south africa, Zeus
Oliberté
Tina Turner once sang “What’s Love Go To Do With It.” In the global discussion about development aid and Africa, the same applies. What’s development aid got to do with Africa, if it is not creating or supporting job growth. Thus, the idea of trade versus aid has been gaining ground over the last few years and shows no signs of letting up. We now find more new global brands that source from and produce in the motherland, allowing African factories to gain export income, grow business, and expand their payroll.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Oliberté, with rubber soles coming from Liberia, leather and manufacturing from Ethiopia, is one of those brands. The company states:
“With every pair of Oliberté you buy, you are making a powerful statement that Africa is proud, free and full of potential. You do this all while being a hero, because you are the reason men and women from Liberia to Swaziland to Ethiopia have a job, have food on the table and can send their children to school.
Oliberté is not a charity – it is a company that believes you can change how the world views Africa and help build lives every time when you buy a pair of Oliberté shoes that are made in Africa.”
The website of the Canadian-based company also states their socially responsible goals of ensuring fair wages for employees of the suppliers in addition to a partnership with factories to reduce their ecological footprint. Check them out at their website or on facebook, or twitter.
Below is a brief video about the growth of Ethiopia’s shoe industry and how it is using it’s competitive advantage to carve out a piece of the global shoe market.
