The African Diaspora thru Picture - Page 4

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Candomble - Bahia, Brazil

Bahia, the state with the largest percentage of Africans, is the capital of this religion, which closely follows its African roots and traditions among the Yoruba people of Nigeria and the Bantu people of Angola and the Congo. Yoruban traditions, including the most commonly used names of the orishas, predominate.

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Hurricane Katrina - New Orleans, August 2005

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Praising - 1950's

Carmel Jones was brought up as an Anglican and attended a Church of England service after arriving in England. The vicar approached him after the service. "Thank you for coming", he said, "but I would be delighted if you didn't come back". He believed his congregation was uncomfortable with the presence of a Black man. The experience left Jones in a state of depression.

Partly as a result of such exclusion Black people established their own churches, particularly Pentecostal congregations. They flourished in number and size and were a critical influence in shaping the African-British identity.

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North Carolina, 1892

Before the abolition of slavery there was no real prison system in the United States. Punishment for crime consisted of physical torture, referred to as corporal or capital punishment. While the model prison in the United States was built in Auburn, New York in 1817, it wasn’t until the end of the Civil War, with the official abolition of slavery, that the prison system took hold.

In 1865, the 13th Amendment officially abolished slavery for all people except those convicted of a crime and opened the door for mass criminalization. Prisons were built in the South as part of the backlash to Black Reconstruction and as a mechanism to re-enslave Black workers. In the late 19th-century South, an extensive prison system was developed in the interest of maintaining the racial and economic relationship of slavery.

Jaron Browne

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Celebration in Trafalgar Square, London, after the annoucement that Nelson Mandela would be released - 10 February 1990

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Mexico, 1968

In 1967, John Carlos became a founding member of the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR). Harry Edwards, a sociology professor at San Jose State College, tried to persuade African American athletes to boycott the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City to draw attention to racism in the United States. This campaign failed but some athletes did agree to wear black knee-length socks, while competing in their events.

Tommie Smith won the gold in the 200m final of the 1968 Olympic Games by setting a new world record. John Carlos, took the bronze. Both men decided to make a protest. While the Star-Spangled Banner played during the medal ceremony, Smith raised his right, black-gloved fist to represent Black Power, while Carlos's raised left fist represented black unity. Peter Norman, the Australian athlete who won the silver medal, joined the protest by wearing an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge.

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Children at The Breakfast Programme - 1969

One of the Panthers' most famous community survival initiatives was the 'Free Breakfasts for Children Programme'. At one point the Panthers across the country were feeding an estimated 10,000 kids. Jesse Andrews, the Treasurer of the State of California, went so far as to say the Panthers were feeding more children than the US Government. Hoover described it as the most subversive of all Panther programmes and sent his FBI out to sabotage it.

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Haitian youth

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Laundry time - Jamaica

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Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant (1944 – 2000) - Politician, Pan Africanist

"We can prove that the reason why Africa is underdeveloped is because 100 million people [a conservative estimate of numbers] were taken to Europe and the so-called New World. How can you take 100 million people of the best, the strongest, the brightest, the most resourceful, out of a continent and not expect a problem? If you take 100 million best brains out of Europe, obviously, you're going to have a problem."

Bernie Grant

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Serena and Venus Williams - Tennis Greats

"Some people say that I have an attitude, maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does, that makes you a winner right there. "

Venus Williams

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Phillis Wheatley (1753 - 1784)

Phillis Wheatley, African American poet whose writings helped create the genre of African American literature. Phillis was born in Gambia, Africa, and kidnapped at the age of seven.

"Imagination! who can sing thy force?
Or who describe the swiftness of thy course?
We on thy pinions can surpass the wind
And leave the rolling universe behind."

Phillis Wheatley

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'The Execution of Breaking on the Rack', 1800

An enslaved African lies on the ground tied by his arms and legs to a wooden frame or rack, one of his hands cut off by an axe which lies on the ground nearby. Meanwhile another African beats him with a long stick with a forked tip.

'An African hung alive by the Ribs to a Gallows', 1806