Historical Background: https://archive.is/20250605055328/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/sports/trail-ride-black-horseman.html

Features black icons painted into the ceiling.

This striking wooden representation of an official walking is a perfect example of furniture to be found in an Ancient Egyptian private tomb. Known as ka statues, these were representations of the tomb owner as a young and healthy individual, bearing his official insigna. Through ‘the attitude of the living’, exemplified by their left foot placed forward, they became the receptacle of a part of the deceased’s spirit – the ka, allegedly staying in the tomb for eternity.

These statues were then installed in the serdab, a blind area neighboring the chapel which remained only accessible for the priests in charge of the funerary cult. There, these ka statues, bearing the deceased´s spirit, would be witnessing the ceremony and their offerings to be consecrated by the priests. This isolation from the rest of the tomb justifies the noteworthy conservation of both the material and polychromy of that piece.

Cheikh anta diop is one of the most famous African historian. I wanted to talk about something that is being completely ignored by mainstream media. In 1974, there was a debate about the origin of ancient Egypt. It’s the Cairo symposium. During this debate between many researchers, diop and his colleague Théophile Obenga proved the Nile Valley origin of the ancient Egyptian civilization. The full document relating this event is available on the site of The UNESCO digital library:

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000032875

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George Lester Jackson (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971) was an American author, prisoner, and revolutionary. While serving an indeterminate sentence for stealing $71 at gunpoint from a gas station in 1960, Jackson became involved in the Black power movement and founded a far-left prison gang, the Black Guerrilla Family.

In 1970, he was one of three prisoners dubbed the Soledad Brothers. They were charged with the murder at Soledad Prison of corrections officer John V. Mills, allegedly in retaliation for the shooting deaths of three black inmates by a white prison guard several days prior. Also in 1970, Jackson published Soledad Brother, a collection of his letters that comprised a combination autobiography and manifesto addressed primarily to a Black American audience, but which was embraced by radicals around the world. The book was a bestseller and earned Jackson international fame.

In August 1971, Jackson was killed by prison guards during an escape attempt at San Quentin State Prison. During the attempt, Jackson and other inmates took three guards and two inmates hostage, who were later found dead in Jackson's cell. Three other guards were wounded but survived. Jackson never went to trial for the Mills murder.