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 Welcome to the MSN Afro-American Community. Share your thoughts and opinions on the various topics posted on the message boards or read the archived records for a wealth of information that has been shared throughout the years by our very highly esteemed membership. You may also contribute your suggestions on improving the site. Email the Managers, Haven Ali and Abubadika D'Moor. They will be happy to respond to your questions and/or concerns.
Where intellectual minds converge to enlighten and promote an accurate depiction of the black race's contribution to history throughout the eras of recorded time. Conversation may range from the ancient past to the modern-day present. Diversity is encouraged; therefore, all races are welcome to participate. | | | | | 
"I repeat that God created you Masters of your own destiny, masters of your own fate, and you can pay no higher tribute to your divine master than function as man, as He created you. The highest compliment we can pay to our Creator; the highest respect we can pay to our Risen Lord and Saviour, is that of the feeling that He has created us as his masterpiece; His perfect instruments of His own existence, because in us is reflected the very being of God. When it is said that we are created in His own image, we ourselves reflect His greatness, we ourselves reflect the part of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, and when we allow ourselves to be subjected and create others as our superior, we hurl an insult at our Creator who made us in the fullness of ourselves. I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are Masters of your own destiny, Masters of your own fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it, because God has created it for your happiness whosesoever you may find it in nature. Nature is bountiful; nature is resourceful, and nature is willing to obey the command of man - Man the sovereign Lord; Man who is supposed to hold dominion and take possession of this great world of ours." - Marcus Mosiah Garvey
|  Born in the slums of the Mill Creek Valley, Josephine Baker quickly rose to the heights of international stardom as a dancer, singer, and actress on the Parisian stage. Growing up in St. Louis, her family was so poor that young Josephine was sent scavenging through garbage cans in Soulard Market to bring home food to eat. She spent much of her time with the musicians who performed in the local taverns and dance halls; listening to their tales of foreign travel and fame, she was inspired to make her own way in the world of show business. Baker started out by playing tunes on a homemade banjo outside the Booker T. Washington Theater. Subsequently she worked her way into a family vaudeville act and then into the chorus line of musical shows. Baker received her first big break in 1921 when she got a part in an all-black musical that opened in New York.
| |  Malcolm X (Malcolm X Little; later El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)(1925-1965), a leading figure in the 20th-century movement for black liberation in the United States, and arguably its most enduring symbol.Malcolm X has been called many things: Pan-Africanist (see Pan-Africanism), father of Black Power, religious fanatic, closet conservative, incipient socialist (see Socialism), and a menace to society. The meaning of his public life—his politics and ideology—is contested in part because his entire body of work consists of a few dozen speeches and a collaborative autobiography whose veracity is often challenged. Gunned down three months before his 40th birthday, Malcolm X's life was cut short just when his thinking had reached a critical juncture.
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