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- Speeches: H.I.M. Emperor Haile Selassie I Speaks
April 27, 2017
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TEACHINGS OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY | RECONCILIATION WITH ITALY

On this historic occasion, after so many trials and vicissitudes suffered by the nations of the world, including Our beloved people, We welcome you to Our Court as on a special mission of the new Italy to discuss the resumption of diplomatic relations between ...

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- Speeches: H.I.M. Emperor Haile Selassie I Speaks
April 26, 2017
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TEACHINGS OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY | NATIONAL UNITY

The efforts made to expand educational opportunities in the country and to protect the national unity of Our people have met with success. Our people have benefited from the rights and privileges embodied in the Constitution. In spite of past and continuing at...

- Speeches: H.I.M. Emperor Haile Selassie I Speaks
April 24, 2017
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TEACHINGS OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY | PRAYERS FOR PEACE

We offer Our prayers in thankfulness, so do We offer Our prayers and remembrance now, and in the silence of Our service, for those heroic soldiers, sailors and airmen and for those civilians also, who from all nations of the Allies, have laid down their lives....

- Speeches: H.I.M. Emperor Haile Selassie I Speaks
April 21, 2017
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TEACHINGS OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY | The United Nations

The authority of the Organization has been mocked, as individual member-states have proceeded, in violation of its commands, to pursue their own aims and ends. The troubles which continue to plague us virtually all arise among member states of the Organization...

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- Speeches: H.I.M. Emperor Haile Selassie I Speaks
April 4, 2017
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TEACHINGS OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY… Address to the World Council of Churches

This is particularly so as it is more timely than ever for followers of Christ to gather to deliberate on current vital issues affecting international peace and justice. Man's egoistic motives and his selfish desire to pursue exclusively his own individual int...

March 26, 2017
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TEACHINGS OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY…May 25, 1963

Today, Africa has emerged from this dark passage. Our Armageddon is past. Africa has been reborn as a free continent and Africans have been reborn as free men. The blood that was shed and the sufferings that were endured are today Africa's advocates for freedo...

December 9, 2016
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Lineage Of Our Majesty | Empress Zewditu – Queen of Kings

Empress Zewditu of Ethiopia was born on April 29, 1876 and baptized as Askala Maryam in the city of Harrar in Enjersa Goro Province, Ethiopia. Her mother was Abechi, a Shewan noblewoman and her father was Menelik II, at that point the king of Shewa and the fut...

December 9, 2016
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Lineage Of Our Majesty | Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie

Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie, is the only son of the late Prince Sahle Selassie and Her Imperial Highness Princess Mahisente Habte Mariam, and was born in 1960. He is thus the grandson of both Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, and also of Dejazmach Habte Mar...

December 9, 2016
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Lineage Of Our Majesty | Princess Romanework

Princess Romanework Haile Selassie, sometimes spelt as Romane Work Haile Selassie (died in Turin on 14 October 1940), was the eldest child of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia by his first wife, Woizero Altayech. The English translation of the emperor's autob...

December 9, 2016
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Lineage Of Our Majesty | Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen

Asfaw Wossen Taffari, (27 July 1916 – 17 February 1997) was born in the walled city of Harar, to Dejazmach Tafari Makonnen, then the governor of Harar and future Emperor of Ethiopia, and his wife Menen Asfaw, on 27 July 1916. Amha Selassie became Crown Prin...

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- History Roots & Culture
November 24, 2016
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The Ruby Bridges Story 50 Years Later

Ruby Bridges made history 50 years ago. She was the first black child to attend an all white school in the south, she was just 6 years old. Part of BBC World News America's first person series.

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- Indie Film & Shorts
November 24, 2016
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Each One Teach One: Know Thyself – Majadi Imara

Know thyself! I am great, because my ancestors were great. I look within and find my greatness. I am powerful beyond measure. I stand on a historical legacy that is rich and vast. In knowing myself, I must know my past. Share this affirmation with some...

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- History Roots & Culture
November 24, 2016
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Mary Seacole: The Real Angel of The Crimea

Drama-documentary about the feisty, fearless and funny Victorian heroine Mary Seacole, a 'doctress' from Jamaica who saved lives and tended the dying during the Crimean War of 1854-6. Despite being a celebrity in Victorian England, Mary Seacole fell off the p...

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November 24, 2016
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The latter part of Robert Mugge’s 1982 Gil Scott-Heron portrait

Gil Scott-Heron performing his poem "Black History" and his songs "Johannesburg" and "B-Movie" in the conclusion of Robert Mugge's 1982 film BLACK WAX.

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- Comedy
November 24, 2016
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SNL: Black History

Comedy: Saturday Night Live Black History Skit

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November 24, 2016
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Legacy: Black and White in America

Legacy: Black & White in America is a feature documentary that examines the political rise of Barack Obama against the backdrop of African-American history and culture. The film presents two parallel stories—the story of African-American life today and the sto...

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March 3, 2016
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Black Superman

What if Superman grew up as a black boy in America? While staring in the face of racism, this story follows a young man's journey as he comes to terms with his identity. As we extract events from America's history and weave them with fictional undertones, w...

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- History Roots & Culture
March 3, 2016
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Kimani Nehusi: Terms Black, Colored, Tribe

Black is a construction which articulates a recent social-political reality of people of color (pigmented people). Black is not a racial family, an ethnic group or a super-ethnic group. Political blackness is thus not an identity but moreover a social-politica...

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November 13, 2015
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History & Science of The Moors, Greatest Race-Traitors in Black History

Video: Dr.BOOKER T. COLEMAN The History and Science of The Moors *Note* Though we DO NOT AGREE with everything Dr. Booker T. Coleman is saying, he reveals important facts on history. Viewers, please STUDY and do your OWN RESEARCH and pick sense from nonsens...

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- News
June 29, 2015
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Look For Me In The Whirlwind – The Marcus Garvey Story

Marcus Garvey was a proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, inspiring the Nation of Islam and the Rastafarian movement. Synopsis Born in Jamaica, Marcus Garvey was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to ...

- History: Our Roots & Culture
July 16, 2014
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Sweet Blackberry, a new animated special about African-American achievements

This is an introduction to Sweet Blackberry, a non-profit organization whose mission is to bring little known stories of African American achievement to children everywhere. Visit Official Website: www.sweetblackberry.org Our mission at Sweet Black...

July 16, 2014
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Racism in America: Small Town 1950s Case Study Documentary Film

Racism in the United States has been a major issue since the colonial era and the slave era. Legally sanctioned racism imposed a heavy burden on Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latin Americans. European Americans (particularly Anglo A...

- History: Our Roots & Culture
July 11, 2014
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Black History Spotlight: The Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, mus...

- History: Our Roots & Culture
December 6, 2013
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Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice

In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the c...

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