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11/30/2022

The flu is going around again. Watch out and protect yourself.

11/29/2022

Today the chains are on our minds

11/22/2022

Facts

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11/18/2022

[email protected] is Bond!

Step Life!!!

Gritty Urban Fiction Novelist Ashton G. Mendez discusses the importance of principles, morals, and honor.

11/18/2022

Father and Son Open New Hardware Store Franchise in Their Neighborhood

Keep it in the family

Warren Pegram and his stepson, Charlston Austin, have opened an Ace Hardware franchise in their neighborhood in the city of South Fulton, Georgia. It is one of the first hardware stores in the community.

11/18/2022

Meet the Founders of the First Black-Owned Sliced Bread Company

Home Slice!

Three entrepreneurs from Flossmoor, Illinois have made history after launching Black Bread Co., the first ever Black-owned sliced bread company.

11/18/2022

These Three Black Entrepreneurs Own 38 Grocery Stores and Just Received $13.5M to Buy Six More

Yes!

Michael Nance, Ademola Adewale-Sadik and Walker Brumskin, the founders and owners of Yellow Banana, which owns and operates 38 grocery stores.

11/17/2022

Concealment shooting sitting in a chair💥🪑🔫💥 ***k ***k19

Practice makes perfect.

11/17/2022

Cameroon begins war against skin bleaching | Africanews

Stop bleach!

The practice of skin bleaching can have devastating consequences for the skin. Faced with the increasing popularity of whitening creams, the Cameroonian gove...

11/14/2022

Mia Amor Mottley Told the TRUTH to the WEST, Financial System is unfair, keeps South World Poor,

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11/14/2022

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11/07/2022

Do something just don't talk!

11/07/2022

We are unorganized

09/28/2022

France is Currently Forcing 14 African Countries to Pay for Being Colonized

Vampire!

In today's Africa True Story we will look at just how France is currently Forcing 14 African Countries to Pay a colonial tax making France very wealthy and k...

09/28/2022

Real talk

09/28/2022

Designer chaser

We pamper our bodies with expensive items to boost self confidence, because we know we're empty and sad inside.

09/28/2022

One love,One People

09/28/2022

Step Life!

Ashton G. Mendez is the Founder and President of AGM Publishing Empire Group and one of today’s most prolific authors of fictional urban street novels and poems. His body of work includes: Breaking The Cycle A Brooklyn Tale; Aggravated; Headbangers; Black Heart; Don Dadda; Once Upon A Time In Brooklyn; Ice, Twisted; Two Of A Kind; Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda; The Untouchables; In Me I Trust; Let Sleeping Dogs Lay; The Family; The Gangster Chronicles; Phya and Ice; Urban Bible; Rantings Of An Unchained Mind(poems); Enchanted Whispers (Poems) and From Da Hood(poems); From Within (poems); In Motion(poems).
Ashton was born in Central America in (1964) and migrated to Brooklyn, New York (1972) in search of the American dream. Soon after his arrival in New York, Ashton’s parents enrolled him in a private school to increase his chances for a better future. Ashton quickly earned the admiration and respect of his classmates. He was a proven leader and a dedicated student who maintained the highest grade-point average which earned him the coveted honor of school valedictorian.
One day a cruel twist of fate landed him at Erasmus Hall, a High School two blocks away from where he lived. In the early '80s, Erasmus was a melting pot, a place where all the elements of the urban street like came together. It was at that moment he witnessed firsthand the lifestyle, fashion, elegance, and gritty interactions between players who represented different segments of the urban street-life and fell in love with it. Before he knew it, all the negative elements his parents tried to protect him from were now seducing him. The temptation of money, power, and respect proved to be intoxicating and too powerful to ignore.
Self-indoctrination came quickly, and soon he found himself immersed in the ideology and activities of "The Life". In a blink of an eye, textbooks were replaced by guns and classrooms replaced by 6x9 prison cells where he was welcomed by hardcore convicts who knew his street reputation. He was a gangster. Instead of the greatness, his parents envisioned, he had become a notorious figure in the cold unforgiving streets and the correctional system. Prison and jail become his second home.
Ashton's departure from a life of crime started one day while participating in a prison training program for money addiction. It was there he heard "Insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." He heard that statement before, but it never struck a chord with him or caused him to self-reflect until that day. That phrase became his mantra and the catalyst for his departure from a life of crime. At that moment he realized that prison was not the answer and recognized that he had to change his mindset before he could change his and the world.
Ashton immediately took action to change every aspect of his lifestyle. He became selective about his food choices, what he read, and most of all associates he allowed in his inner circle. Only positive influences and influencers were allowed in his personal space. He also realized the value of his experiences and decided to become an author hoping that through his books others would denounce or be discouraged from the temptations and pitfalls of a life of crime

09/28/2022

Step Life!

Ashton G. Mendez is the Founder and President of AGM Publishing Empire Group and one of today’s most prolific authors of fictional urban street novels and poems. His body of work includes: Breaking The Cycle A Brooklyn Tale; Aggravated; Headbangers; Black Heart; Don Dadda; Once Upon A Time In Brooklyn; Ice, Twisted; Two Of A Kind; Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda; The Untouchables; In Me I Trust; Let Sleeping Dogs Lay; The Family; The Gangster Chronicles; Phya and Ice; Urban Bible; Rantings Of An Unchained Mind(poems); Enchanted Whispers (Poems) and From Da Hood(poems); From Within (poems); In Motion(poems).
Ashton was born in Central America in (1964) and migrated to Brooklyn, New York (1972) in search of the American dream. Soon after his arrival in New York, Ashton’s parents enrolled him in a private school to increase his chances for a better future. Ashton quickly earned the admiration and respect of his classmates. He was a proven leader and a dedicated student who maintained the highest grade-point average which earned him the coveted honor of school valedictorian.
One day a cruel twist of fate landed him at Erasmus Hall, a High School two blocks away from where he lived. In the early '80s, Erasmus was a melting pot, a place where all the elements of the urban street like came together. It was at that moment he witnessed firsthand the lifestyle, fashion, elegance, and gritty interactions between players who represented different segments of the urban street-life and fell in love with it. Before he knew it, all the negative elements his parents tried to protect him from were now seducing him. The temptation of money, power, and respect proved to be intoxicating and too powerful to ignore.
Self-indoctrination came quickly, and soon he found himself immersed in the ideology and activities of "The Life". In a blink of an eye, textbooks were replaced by guns and classrooms replaced by 6x9 prison cells where he was welcomed by hardcore convicts who knew his street reputation. He was a gangster. Instead of the greatness, his parents envisioned, he had become a notorious figure in the cold unforgiving streets and the correctional system. Prison and jail become his second home.
Ashton's departure from a life of crime started one day while participating in a prison training program for money addiction. It was there he heard "Insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." He heard that statement before, but it never struck a chord with him or caused him to self-reflect until that day. That phrase became his mantra and the catalyst for his departure from a life of crime. At that moment he realized that prison was not the answer and recognized that he had to change his mindset before he could change his and the world.
Ashton immediately took action to change every aspect of his lifestyle. He became selective about his food choices, what he read, and most of all associates he allowed in his inner circle. Only positive influences and influencers were allowed in his personal space. He also realized the value of his experiences and decided to become an author hoping that through his books others would denounce or be discouraged from the temptations and pitfalls of a life of crime

09/28/2022

Ashton G. Mendez is the Founder and President of AGM Publishing Empire Group and one of today’s most prolific authors of fictional urban street novels and poems. His body of work includes: Breaking The Cycle A Brooklyn Tale; Aggravated; Headbangers; Black Heart; Don Dadda; Once Upon A Time In Brooklyn; Ice, Twisted; Two Of A Kind; Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda; The Untouchables; In Me I Trust; Let Sleeping Dogs Lay; The Family; The Gangster Chronicles; Phya and Ice; Urban Bible; Rantings Of An Unchained Mind(poems); Enchanted Whispers (Poems) and From Da Hood(poems); From Within (poems); In Motion(poems).
Ashton was born in Central America in (1964) and migrated to Brooklyn, New York (1972) in search of the American dream. Soon after his arrival in New York, Ashton’s parents enrolled him in a private school to increase his chances for a better future. Ashton quickly earned the admiration and respect of his classmates. He was a proven leader and a dedicated student who maintained the highest grade-point average which earned him the coveted honor of school valedictorian.
One day a cruel twist of fate landed him at Erasmus Hall, a High School two blocks away from where he lived. In the early '80s, Erasmus was a melting pot, a place where all the elements of the urban street like came together. It was at that moment he witnessed firsthand the lifestyle, fashion, elegance, and gritty interactions between players who represented different segments of the urban street-life and fell in love with it. Before he knew it, all the negative elements his parents tried to protect him from were now seducing him. The temptation of money, power, and respect proved to be intoxicating and too powerful to ignore.
Self-indoctrination came quickly, and soon he found himself immersed in the ideology and activities of "The Life". In a blink of an eye, textbooks were replaced by guns and classrooms replaced by 6x9 prison cells where he was welcomed by hardcore convicts who knew his street reputation. He was a gangster. Instead of the greatness, his parents envisioned, he had become a notorious figure in the cold unforgiving streets and the correctional system. Prison and jail become his second home.
Ashton's departure from a life of crime started one day while participating in a prison training program for money addiction. It was there he heard "Insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." He heard that statement before, but it never struck a chord with him or caused him to self-reflect until that day. That phrase became his mantra and the catalyst for his departure from a life of crime. At that moment he realized that prison was not the answer and recognized that he had to change his mindset before he could change his and the world.
Ashton immediately took action to change every aspect of his lifestyle. He became selective about his food choices, what he read, and most of all associates he allowed in his inner circle. Only positive influences and influencers were allowed in his personal space. He also realized the value of his experiences and decided to become an author hoping that through his books others would denounce or be discouraged from the temptations and pitfalls of a life of crime

09/27/2022

Here today gone tomorrow.

09/27/2022

Humble Lion

09/27/2022

Worries!

09/27/2022

Stepper Don

09/27/2022

I expect nothing ,not even disappointment.

Raggamuffin Stepper Don

09/27/2022

Junior Reid - Same Boat (Official Music Video)

One Africa, One People,One Love

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09/27/2022

09/27/2022

You might have heard of Black Wall Street. Meet the founder, O.W. Gurley.

In 1905 Gurley and his wife sold their property in Noble County and moved 80 miles to the oil boom town of Tulsa. Gurley purchased 40 acres of land in North Tulsa and established his first business, a rooming house on a dusty road that would become Greenwood Avenue. He subdivided his plot into residential and commercial lots and eventually opened a grocery store.

As the community grew around him, Gurley prospered. Between 1910 and 1920, the Black population in the area he had purchased grew from 2,000 to nearly 9,000 in a city with a total population of 72,000. The Black community had a large working-class population as well as doctors, lawyers, and other professionals who provided services to them. Soon the Greenwood section was dubbed “Negro Wall Street” by Tuskegee educator Booker T. Washington.

Greenwood, now called Black Wall Street, was nearly self-sufficient with Black-owned businesses, many initially financed by Gurley, ranging from brickyards and theaters to a chartered airplane company. Gurley built the Gurley Hotel at 112 N. Greenwood and rented out spaces to smaller businesses. His other properties included a two-story building at 119 N. Greenwood, which housed the Masonic Lodge and a Black employment agency. He was also one of the founders of Vernon AME Church.

Source: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/o-w-gurley-1868-1935/

09/27/2022

Unity is life,war is death

09/27/2022

Never again

70% of the security force in apartheid South Africa were black.

England occupied Egypt with 80,000 soldiers, of which only 1,000 were British and the remaining were recruits from its colonies (mainly Indians).

France occupied Syria with an army made of Africans (mainly from Algeria and Senegal).

Moral of the story: our weakness is what makes our enemy strong.

09/21/2022

Thinking out the box.

𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗺 (1789–1854)

𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿, 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗻, 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘁. 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶. 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗺 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗺𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮 #𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘄 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿.

John Berry Meachum (1789-1854) was born into slavery in Goochland County, VA. Meachum’s owner moved several times; eventually settling in Kentucky. He learned carpentry and other trades from his owner. He used funds from carpentry work to purchase his freedom as well as the freedom of his father and wife. Before he was able to purchase the freedom of his wife, she was moved to St. Louis. Meachum followed her there and then purchased her freedom. While in St. Louis, Meachum met John Peck, a white Baptist Missionary. Peck had come to St. Louis to start a worship and educational center for Native Americans. Peck also saw the need to establish a place of worships for blacks as well and asked Meachum to help him. Meachum was ordained. He and Peck eventually started the First African Baptist Church in 1825. The church is still in existence today.

The church was used to provide both religious and secular education classes for free and enslaved blacks. Meachum also used his resources to purchase the freedom of other slaves. The school drew up to 300 students. Initially education of free and enslaved black had been supported in Missouri. As racial tensions grew, education of blacks began to be viewed as a threat to slavery. This resulted in a law being enacted to ban education of free blacks and slaves. The law was not consistently enforced. However it did result in Meachum’s educational classes at the church being shut down. Meachum crafted an ingenious strategy to continue educating blacks in St. Louis. He furnished a steamboat and opened the “Floating Freedom School” on the Mississippi River (which was under federal jurisdiction) putting it beyond the jurisdiction of Missouri officials.

#𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 #𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆𝗢𝘂𝗿𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 🤎 ✊🏾

09/21/2022

We don't bow.

The Story Of Attah Ameh Oboni - the Nigerian King who Chose Su***de Instead of Bowing to the Queen of England.

Attah Ameh Oboni was a revered Igala King.

At a particular meeting held in Kaduna which consisted of all paramount traditional rulers in Nigeria and which had the queen of England in attendance, Attah Ameh was asked to remove his cap to greet the Queen of England as others had done.

Though he refused until they said he should leave the meeting if he would not remove his cap. But Attah was not like others, or was he?

It was a taboo for Attah to remove his cap in the public. The entire hall where they were staying was occupied by swan of bees which emanates from the cap of Attah Ameh Oboni which he removed in order to greet the Queen.

The Queen of England as well as other rulers in the meeting ran helter-skelter except the friendly Oba of Benin who was asked by Attah Ameh to go out before he removed his cap. The hall became empty as some were stung by the bees and the meeting ended.

According to history, Attah Ameh Oboni was asked to be arrested and handcuffed by the security people, which they did, but the handcuffs fell off his hands.

He was later locked up in a room on the instruction of the Northern rulers and guarded by the security personnel but only to find out later by the personnel that he had left the room. Yes, when the security were taking him to be locked up, he told his driver, Amanabo of blessed memory, to take the car and be going to Idah while the security locked him in the room.

He then warned Amanabo not to look back until he felt a cool breeze in the car. Though Amanabo argued a little that he cannot leave the Attah there but later obeyed and started driving back to Idah from Kaduna.

After some time, he felt the cool breeze in the car, and Attah Ameh was sitted inside the car.

The incident in the meeting made many traditional rulers which were mostly northerners to be angry especially making kings run in such a manner because of bees.

This became one important sin, and it was like “one sin too many”.

The queen of Englnad was also not happy and they (the Queen and northern leaders) started looking for a way to remove Attah Ameh from the throne since he was getting tougher and uncontrollable like others, as well as searching for an obedient replacement.

Igala has various cultural festivals, one of which is Ocho. Ocho is celebrated before farming starts, and it is the time that Attah Igala prays to God for sufficient rainfall, bountiful harvest, success in hunting. It is celebrated in the bush and the venue is called Ere-ocho, where the Attah will hunt until he kills a Buffalo or a strong animal. The community in Idah where Ocho takes place is called Ogo-Efa. He performs a little sacrifice to the ancestors using a fowl in the process, and this was to find out if there will blessings or problems in the land after the Ocho.

Before this time, the enemies at home (among the Igala people), especially those having connections with the leaders of the northern region, were working hard to get any evidence either true or false which can be used to remove him from the throne. The blood of the animal used as sacrifice at Ocho ground now became what the enemies would use against him.

Petition was written by these two Igala people to the Queen and some other Northern leaders that Attah Ameh was sacrificing humans during the Ocho festivals. Since they were looking for any means to displace him with, judgment was quickly passed that he must be dethroned, even when investigations were not yet concluded.

In addition, all the Igala cultural festivals including the Ocho were immediately banned and this remained for almost 63 years until Governor Yahaya Bello unbanned them based on the appeal of the present Attah Igala.

Already, before this time, the Oba of Benin who had such friction with the British had already been dethroned and banished from Benin. So, Attah Ameh Oboni knew that at that point, no matter what spiritual approach applied, it can only postpone the evil day as his enemies will never relent until he was removed by them.

The result of the blood sample which was taken from the Ocho venue and taken to University of Ibadan for analysis had arrived and it was proved that it was the blood of an animal and not human. Sadly, the revered King, Attah Ameh had passed on before the result was brought.

But Attah Ameh, being very sure that he was wrongly accused and framed up by his enemies, especially those from Igala who wrote the petition against him marking the beginning of his planned dethronement, made some pronouncements before his death.

He was allegedly quoted to have said that ” the person who wrote the petition against him would have that hand dried up, and that the leader of the gang or petitioners would be buried three times”. And they all came to pass.

While the hand dried as said, the other was buried as stated, first was the leg, second was his hand and the third was himself, all buried at various times at different locations.

In addition, as this information of his dethronement was given to him in a meeting from where he was supposed to go back to Idah and prepare to leave the throne, he stopped on the way in another Igala land called Dekina.

That was where he committed su***de.

Before taking his life, he was allegedly quoted to have said that the town, Dekina will be popular but its development will not be as much as its popularity.

He was also quoted to have said that because Igala was the genesis of his ordeal, there will be disunity among the Igala people until the reign of his own blood (son) as Attah, and all Igalas irrespective of their locations will be reunited again.

I think from the reconnection and reunification of Igala people across Nigeria and beyond which has been going on and still going on under the reign of his son, Agabaidu Idakwo Ameh Oboni II, the present Attah Igala, that pronouncement of reunification of Igala people is also coming through.