IMF and World Bank are back and are scurrilous: Ex-minister Raphael Tuju and Kwale Dam are their first casualties via Conflict of Interest Act
For us, what’s attractive is the cabinet secretary? Is he not tall, black and handsome? He knows his thing. He is Eng Eric Muriithi Mugaa, the youngest cabinet secretary, freshly minted – and nominated! So, is the guy at the dam project updating us and going for parliamentary meetings?
Moral of beautiful slave girl story: While slavery poisoned relationships, it also contained potions that were exploited to resist victimisation
Over the following months, James and Margaret grieved separately and together. Their marriage continued, now bound more by shared loss than by the previous strange happiness.
They never spoke openly of what they had shared with Isabelle, but the ghost of those years haunted Belmont Plantation.
Power and glory: How elegant and intelligent slave girl conquered and married both colonel and his wife on Belmont Plantation in Mississippi
James would request Isabelle’s presence in the library for literary discussions. Margaret would keep Isabelle with her for hours, their conversations growing increasingly intimate. By the winter of 1848, the situation reached a crisis point.
Raphael Tuju betrayed: If Kenyan judiciary can be silenced while our land is stolen through manufactured defaults, then we’ve no future
If anyone is doubting what I’m saying, please respond to me: Why did the Supreme Court judge quorum take to their heels and recuse themselves? If you have the answer to that question, you know that what happened is wrong.
Just because she’s Black: Nina Mae McKinney, the first Black performer in Hollywood was banished from memory the minute she died
McKinney was born in Lancaster, South Carolina on June 12, 1912, and arrived in Harlem as a teenager carrying a face the press would struggle to describe because nothing in their vocabulary had been built to hold a Black woman’s beauty without diminishing it.
How stars aligned for Bob Marley: Peter Tosh had banished him but 48 hours later Marley started journey to becoming Reggae music messiah
Oxone Dodd directed every note; every breath; every word. The shy teenager who had been standing in the corner was gone. In his place was an artist who had finally found his voice. When they finished, Oxon Dodd played back the recording.
Because she’s Black: Why first Black woman to sing for four American presidents died in penury, buried in unmarked grave
Everywhere she went, critics raved. The Washington Post described her voice as “clear and bell-like… Her low notes are rich and sensuous with a tropical quality. The compass and quality of her registers surpass the usual limitations and seem to combine the height and depth of both soprano and contralto.”
Slave diaries-1: Master Robert Thornton’s seven children all looked exactly like Samuel, a field slave he never knew was their father till his death
The psychological weight was almost unbearable. He knew Thomas was his son. Knew it the way any father knows his child through recognition existing in his bones. He counted them. Seven. Seven children. Seven lives. He had helped create. Seven faces proving his fatherhood to anyone willing to look. But he also knew with absolute certainty that acknowledging this in any way would mean immediate death, not quick death.
When a slave, Mateus, escaped from Brazil’s Recôncavo Baiano sugar fields, his master sent 100 hunters to pursue him – none returned alive
Colonel Rodrigues was not just a farmer; he was one of the richest and most feared men in the region. His sugar mill produced sugar for export on a large scale, and he proudly proclaimed to all who knew him that he maintained absolute order and discipline among his captives.
Black Widow-4: Freed slave girl, on a mission to avenge her mother’s murder, faces Ku Klux Klan White supremacists
Josephine said, “I want you to know why you’re going to die. I want you to know that this isn’t random violence or crazy criminals. This is justice. It’s not perfect. It’s late and it’s outside the law because the law let us down. But it’s still justice.”
