by Claytron Brown | Jan 4, 2015 | Blog
Africans and Christianity have a long history dating back to a few hundred years after the death of Christ. The first African nation to adopt the religion of Christ, which I will unpack later, was Ethiopia, when it was called Aksum. However, the Christianity that...
by Claytron Brown | Sep 21, 2013 | Culture, History, Positivity
Woman. A term that not all women of color have often, and arguably until this day, have been excluded from. Since the inception of this country, it was white women who were the quintessential “women.” They were its ideal standard of beauty, chastity, and purity. This...
by Claytron Brown | Sep 21, 2013 | Culture, History, Positivity
“Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems: “Africana Womanism is a term I coined and defined in 1987 after nearly two years of publicly debating the importance of self-naming for Africana women. Why the term ‘Africana Womanism’?…. The first part of the coinage,...
by Claytron Brown | Sep 21, 2013 | Blog, Culture, History, Positivity
Africans were the first to inhabit the earth. Fossil records as well as DNA analysis give scientific evidence to support this fact. Therefore, the first woman to give birth was a Black African woman. It is from us that all humans have come. The other races of...
by Claytron Brown | Sep 18, 2013 | Blog, History
Capitalism, a socio-economic system, ideology, and way of life pervades our existence in this nation. Capitalism rose out of European medieval feudalism where land owners and the wealthy would loan plots of arable land to peasants and working peoples so they could...
by Claytron Brown | Sep 15, 2013 | Culture, Positivity
People of color, mainly African Americans, are a people forged through the fires of Hell while resisting every step of the way with hope that Heaven exists somewhere for them. Since the onset of this nation, and I mean since its independence from Great Britain,...
by Claytron Brown | Jul 27, 2013 | History
The image above will undoubtedly enrage some Black Christians, well, at least those who don’t know their own history. Those who don’t know that Jesus was a threat to the status quo of his day and was persecuted just like any African American in this...
by Claytron Brown | Jul 25, 2013 | Blog
African Americans and the education system in this country have a history that is so intertwined that it can be said that we gave birth to the public school. In the post 1865 “Radical Reconstruction” era, newly freed African Americans had no place to go;...
by Claytron Brown | Jul 7, 2013 | Blog
Vanity Slaves pt. 2 – Kendrick Lamar feat Gucci Mane Vanity, the plague on the consciousness of our people. It is not only endemic to just Black Americans, but all Americans. However, because of the nature of this nation’s white supremacist/racist media,...
by Claytron Brown | Jul 1, 2013 | Blog
Patriotism as defined by the dictionary simply is “devoted love, support, and defense of one’s country; national loyalty.” This definition, I argue is inadequate and needs to be expanded. For Black people, as well as other historically oppressed...
