Black to Our Roots is the inspirational story of group of teenagers’ journey from the inner-city of Atlanta to Ghana, West Africa in search of their ancestral home.
Beginning in Atlanta, the youth work with HABESHA, a community based organization, to raise their own travel costs through fundraising and community service projects in which they learn about their cultural history in preparation for their ultimate journey to Africa.
Sankofa Video Books & Café
2714 Georgia Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
August 4, 2007
3PM - 8PM
$10
http://sankofastore.com
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Friday, July 20, 2007
A Tale of Two Nations 2
Ethiopian and African-American Relations:
A Brief Timeline
by Andrew Laurence
1808
African-Americans along with a group of Ethiopian merchants are unwilling to accept racially segregated seating at the First Baptist Church of New York and withdraw their membership.
Determined that they would organize their own church, they establish the Abyssinian Baptist Church, now located in Harlem, New York. The name is inspired by the nation from which the merchants of Ethiopia had come, Abyssinia.
As the first non-segregated Baptist Church in America, it is led for many years by the great Pastor and US Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. after his father Adam Clayton Powell Sr., and would serve as a focal point in New York for many of the Pan-African and civil rights movements to come.
A Brief Timeline
by Andrew Laurence
1808
African-Americans along with a group of Ethiopian merchants are unwilling to accept racially segregated seating at the First Baptist Church of New York and withdraw their membership.
Determined that they would organize their own church, they establish the Abyssinian Baptist Church, now located in Harlem, New York. The name is inspired by the nation from which the merchants of Ethiopia had come, Abyssinia.
As the first non-segregated Baptist Church in America, it is led for many years by the great Pastor and US Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. after his father Adam Clayton Powell Sr., and would serve as a focal point in New York for many of the Pan-African and civil rights movements to come.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Party with a purpose Atlanta with Abezash
Party with a purpose is an event to raise funds for the Artists for Charity Children's home in Ethiopia. The AFC home is an orphanage for HIV+ orphans in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
If your in the Atlanta area please join us on Wednesday the 18th of July at Django. If you can't make it to the event and would like to make a donation please visit the site below.
http://artistsforcharity.org
http://www.artistsforcharity.org/afcchildrenshome/
If your in the Atlanta area please join us on Wednesday the 18th of July at Django. If you can't make it to the event and would like to make a donation please visit the site below.
http://artistsforcharity.org
http://www.artistsforcharity.org/afcchildrenshome/
Monday, July 16, 2007
A Tale of Two Nations 1
Ethiopian and African-American Relations:
A Brief Timeline
by Andrew Laurence
18th - 20th Century A.D. - Numerous references to Ethiopia in the Bible, such as (Psalm 68:31) “…Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God,” provides refuge and salvation for Negro slaves in America.
During the American Revolutionary War, one African-American regiment proudly wears the appellation of “Allen’s Ethiopians,” named after Bishop Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Church in Philadelphia.
Robert Alexander Young, a slave preacher, publishes The Ethiopian Manifesto. Phyllis Wheatley, the poet-laureate of colonial America, also makes use of this discourse as did Prince Hall, a Revolutionary War veteran and founder of the African Masonic Lodge.
Drusilla Dunjee Houston, researcher and historian, writes the amazing book, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire. Frederic Douglas Jr. orates eloquently on the Negro problem alluding inspirationally to Ethiopia.
The decisive victory over Italy at Adwa cements Ethiopia’s independence from European colonialism and has a profound impact on the quest for dignity and respect for Africans throughout the world.
Ethiopian inspired Pan-African movements give hope to those seeking justice in the eyes of God and the world. Martin Delaney, Carter G. Woodson, John Jackson, Willis Huggins, Joseph Harris, and Edward Blyden are prolific scholars who write brilliantly on Ethiopia’s origin and history.
Thinkers and scholars from William E. B. Dubois, editor of the influential Crisis Magazine, Sylvester Williams, C.L.R. James, Chancellor Williams, Walter Rodney, George Padmore, John Henri Clarke and Aime Cesaire build on these traditions of Pan-Africanism and Ethiopianism.
They point the way for future African leaders such as Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Haile Selassie, Sekou Toure, Leopold Senghor, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyerere, Robert Mugabe, Nelson Mandela; and African-American activists Mary Mcleod Bethune, Paul Robeson, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Harry Belafonte, Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture); and political leaders Congresswomen Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, Barbara Lee, Congressmen Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Donald Payne, Ron Dellums, Gregory Meeks and John Conyers, Ambassador Andrew Young, Melvin Foote of Constituency for Africa, Randall Robinson, Danny Glover and Bill Fletcher Jr. of TransAfrica Forum, to name just a few.
Picture: Pastor and US Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Accepts the Ethiopian Lalibela Cross from Emperor Haile Selassie at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York – 1954.
To be continued…..
A Brief Timeline
by Andrew Laurence
18th - 20th Century A.D. - Numerous references to Ethiopia in the Bible, such as (Psalm 68:31) “…Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God,” provides refuge and salvation for Negro slaves in America.
During the American Revolutionary War, one African-American regiment proudly wears the appellation of “Allen’s Ethiopians,” named after Bishop Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Church in Philadelphia.
Robert Alexander Young, a slave preacher, publishes The Ethiopian Manifesto. Phyllis Wheatley, the poet-laureate of colonial America, also makes use of this discourse as did Prince Hall, a Revolutionary War veteran and founder of the African Masonic Lodge.
Drusilla Dunjee Houston, researcher and historian, writes the amazing book, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire. Frederic Douglas Jr. orates eloquently on the Negro problem alluding inspirationally to Ethiopia.
The decisive victory over Italy at Adwa cements Ethiopia’s independence from European colonialism and has a profound impact on the quest for dignity and respect for Africans throughout the world.
Ethiopian inspired Pan-African movements give hope to those seeking justice in the eyes of God and the world. Martin Delaney, Carter G. Woodson, John Jackson, Willis Huggins, Joseph Harris, and Edward Blyden are prolific scholars who write brilliantly on Ethiopia’s origin and history.
Thinkers and scholars from William E. B. Dubois, editor of the influential Crisis Magazine, Sylvester Williams, C.L.R. James, Chancellor Williams, Walter Rodney, George Padmore, John Henri Clarke and Aime Cesaire build on these traditions of Pan-Africanism and Ethiopianism.
They point the way for future African leaders such as Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Haile Selassie, Sekou Toure, Leopold Senghor, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyerere, Robert Mugabe, Nelson Mandela; and African-American activists Mary Mcleod Bethune, Paul Robeson, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Harry Belafonte, Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture); and political leaders Congresswomen Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, Barbara Lee, Congressmen Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Donald Payne, Ron Dellums, Gregory Meeks and John Conyers, Ambassador Andrew Young, Melvin Foote of Constituency for Africa, Randall Robinson, Danny Glover and Bill Fletcher Jr. of TransAfrica Forum, to name just a few.
Picture: Pastor and US Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Accepts the Ethiopian Lalibela Cross from Emperor Haile Selassie at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York – 1954.
To be continued…..
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Ethiopia’s Exports
Leading Export Sectors:
• Agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and agro-processing, including coffee and oilseeds.
Sectors with Greatest Export Growth Potential:
• Agriculture, fisheries, and agro-processing, including coffee, medicine, tea, honey, leather products, and horticultural products
• Energy-related, including hydropower and geothermal energy
• Manufacturing, including textiles and apparel, art, leather goods, and jewelry
• Services, including tourism, education, medicine, air transportation, and publishing
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