[Black Star News Show\WBAI 99.5\ Battle of Adwa]
Africa celebrates one of its greatest military victories—the Battle of Adwa, on March 1, 1896, when a huge army led by Empress Taytu Betul and Emperor Menelik II together with several Ethiopian generals, including Das Alula Engida, Ras Michael, Ras Mengesha, Ras Makonnen, and others defeated an imperial Italian army that set out to turn Ethiopia into a colony.
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WBAI’S BLACK STAR NEWS SHOW CELEBRATES THE 1896 BATTLE OF ADWA THIS WEDNESDAY
MALCOLM X DENOUNCES POLICE “GESTAPO TACTICS” AFTER MURDEROUS UNJUST 1962 SHOOTING
[Black History Month\Malcolm X\Racial Policing]
The following is an interview Malcolm gave in 1962 after the LAPD apparently targeted the Nation of Islam in an act of domestic terrorism shooting seven unarmed members of the Nation on April 27, 1962.
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MIDNITE REGGAE BAND CO-FOUNDER VAUGHN “AKAE BEKA” BENJAMIN HAS PASSED AWAY AT 50
[Entertainment News\Reggae]
Vaughn Benjamin has made over 55 albums—likely much more if all of his collaborative efforts are counted. A look at his discography online will attest to this. It is worthy of noting that the Midnight Raver music website lists the 2000 “Jubilees of Zion” as the best album of the new millennium and the 2014 “Beauty for Ashes” as the third best album of the new millennium. Since the reformation of the group as Akae Beka, the Midnight Raver website referred to the group as “the most revered, influential and prolific reggae act in two decades.”
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