Category Archives: Ancestry
My ancestors, black and white
Race Is An Artificial Construct
Every human being has African ancestry. In March 2015, researchers in Ethopia found a 2.8 million year old lower jaw bone of the oldest known representative of Homo habilis, the ancestor of Homo sapiens, modern man. James Watson and Francis Crick, who unraveled the DNA double helices in 1953, and Alec Jeffreys, who developed DNA fingerprinting in1984, which launched the Human Genome Project in 1990, stood at the threshold of truth about the interrelationship of […]
Continue readingSankofa: Learn from The Past
“Sankofa,” a word in the Akan language of Ghana, means “reach back and get it” (san – to return; ko – to go; fa – to fetch, to seek and take) and is associated with the proverb, “It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.” Its message, particularly important to African Americans and other peoples of the African Diaspora, is for us to go back and reclaim what is good from […]
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