ourafrica:

 

soulbrotherv2:

African Students Who Invented Anti-Malaria Soap, Awarded $25,000

AFRICANGLOBE – Two African students have created a malaria-repellant soap using local herbs, and have won, consequently, a $25,000 Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) award.

The GSVC is the only international competition of Social Business Plans, dedicated to students, young graduates, and entrepreneurs with high social and/or environmental startups.

Moctar Dembélé who hails from Burkina Faso and Gérard Niyondiko, from Burundi, are the first non American born/citizen, to win the Global Social Venture Competition. [Read more.]

My only issue here is, why only 25,000? This product will save MILLIONS. Their invention should make them the youngest African Millionairess if they were paid right.

girljanitor:

Today in What The Entire Fuck?!: Mississippi Schools Sending Kids To Prison For Misbehaving In The Classroom

The Department of Justice on Friday uncovered a so-called “School-to-Prison pipeline” in Mississippi, where teachers and principals are shipping off children into the criminal justice system for infractions as small as a dress code violation.

Schools in the city of Meridian, MS, have an established practice of sending students, particularly black and disabled students, to prison for minor disciplinary problems — in clear violation of the Constitution. As ABC reports, that DOJ is claiming that the schools, which protect against “abuse of government authority in legal proceedings and fairness of due process rights,” are violating the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.

from ABC:

Also in the findings letter the Civil Rights Division alleges that “Lauderdale County and the Youth Court Judges violate the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments by failing to provide children procedural due process in the youth court. Lauderdale County, the Youth Court judges, and the Mississippi Division of Youth Services violate the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by failing to provide children procedural due process rights in the probationary process.”

I posted this a few weeks ago….I really was hoping it would get more notes.

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danmeth:

THE TOAD-LICKERS 
This drawing was inspired by true stories of shamans deep in the Amazon.
Prints and Posters of it are for sale right here!

soulbrotherv2:

Miles in Berlin

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str8nochaser:

africandiasporaphd:

TODAY: International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

March 25th is United Nations International Day of Remembrance of Slavery Victims and the…

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I did not know that.

Now I do. 

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howiviewafrica:

thehereticpharaoh:

Queen Ahmes-Nefertari (ca.1575 -. 1505 BC) was the wife and sister of Pharaoh Ahmose I and mother of Pharaoh Amenhotep I. She was called Great Royal Wife and bore the title of God’s Wife of Amun. She survived her husband and ruled during the reign of her son, whom she survived also likely. She died at the age of about 70 years during the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose I.

After her death she was worshiped together with Amenhotep I, as a protective deity of the necropolis of Thebes, particularly in the settlement of Deir el-Medina, which of them together with Amenhotep I had founded.

 

hawkkwardd:

OMFG SO CUTE

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dynamicafrica:

Portrait of two women clothes in various kangas and fine jewelry

Madagascar, circa 1890.

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artcomesfirst:

Dream often

howiviewafrica:

Mali.

S.W.A.G.