Monthly Archives: October 2011
The Black Man Who Founded Chicago
Point du Sable – By Oguejiofo Annu
There is no known record of Point du Sable’s life prior to the 1770s; his birth year, place of birth, and parents are unknown, though he is suspected to have been of Muurish American, or an original Moor of Europe, a Black American Indian (yes they are thousands of them) or a man of African descent. Anyway, he was a black man in the modern day sense.
The HIV-AIDS Scam Backfires
Executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, Babatunde Osotimehin
The international community has “made a mistake” with the intensity of its focus on the global HIV-Aids epidemic and lost ground on family planning issues as a result, according to the head of the United Nations population agency.
Libyan girl from Tripoli carrying a water jug 1913
Young Libyan girls in a 1913 picture
Libyan woman carrying prepared food 1913
This illustration of Viking Varangian troops near Moscow is from the chronicle of Skylitzis, he was a Greek historian, dead c. 1100