America Brands Itself Better Than Africa Senegalese rapper, songwriter, founder of Lady Gaga, and businessman talks at the Youth Connekt in Kigali in Rwanda. He tells a brief but fitting storyline of how America is great because they have been great at branding and marketing (themselves). America brands itself better than Africa has, primarily because […]
Author: Chief Radical
Black Radical Congress Freedom Agenda Most people may have thought that black radicals was or is a new concept or idea. It is not! Black radicals is a terminology that was developed during the Civil Rights Movement in America during the 1950s 60s and 70s. During that time many black men and women became “radical” […]
First Black Woman Astronaut in Space Mae Jemison Dr. Mae Carol Jemison was born October 17, 1956, and she is certainly a black radical. Dr. Jemison is a US engineer, physician, and NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour […]
Cheikh Anta Diop born on December 29th of 1923, was a historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race’s origins and pre-colonial African culture. In 1946, at the ripe age of 23, Diop decided to go to Paris to study. He originally thought to study mathematics as his major of study. Dr. […]
Medgar Evers Life Story Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist who organized voter-registration efforts, demonstrations and boycotts of companies that practiced discrimination. Born in Mississippi, he served in World War II. He did this before going to work for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Prior to his civil rights […]
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart Radical Author The great Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe wrote a classic and literary powerful book that told a story of colonialism in a light that was not seen or heard of prior to. Caucasian European historians had dominated the field in telling the story of Africa from their isolated […]
Malcolm X Explains Some of His Reasons for Departure This is a sad implication and story from the great black radical Malcolm X. In the video above, brother Malcolm shares why he was slowly yet rapidly separated and out of the Black Muslim organization lead by the honorable Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm addresses the fornication […]