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The Illinois Governor's Mansion (known until 2018 as the Illinois Executive Mansion) has served as the official residence of Illinois' Governors and their families since 1855. The Mansion is located in the Old Aristocracy Hill neighborhood of Springfield, blocks from the State Capitol. The Italianate-style mansion was designed by Chicago architect John M. Van Osdel.
The 16-room manor is one of the three oldest continuously occupied governor's mansions in the United States. The Governor's Mansion has undergone several renovations over the years including an extensive $15 million project completed in 2018. The mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Flying in front of the mansion are the Ukrainian and Pan African flags. Illinois has the fifth largest population of Ukrainians in the United States, with Chicago having the second largest metropolitan area concentration. The Pan African flag is raised in honor of Black History Month, which is the month of February in the U.S.
El Día de África (Africa Day) se celebra todos los años el 25 de Mayo. Se conmemora la instauración, el año 1963 en Addis Abeba (Etiopía) de la Organización de la Unidad Africana (OUA), a la que sucede, la Unión Africana (UA).
La Unión Africana ha sido el motor de desarrollo de una serie de instituciones regionales, que incluye el Parlamento Panafricano, el Consejo de Paz y Seguridad, y programas como la Nueva Estrategia de Cooperación para el Desarrollo Africano (NEPAD). Todas reflejan el deseo de África de consolidar los valores de paz duradera, respeto de los derechos humanos, buena administración de los asuntos públicos y desarrollo sostenible.
The artist is Ebony G. Patterson and the work is entitled Invisible Presence Bling Memories
From the Exhibition Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of PanAfrica at The Chicago Art Institute:
www.artic.edu/exhibitions/10157/project-a-black-planet-th...
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This subspecies is found throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa.
Gibbs Farm, Karatu, Tanzania, East Africa.
MAN KNOW THYSELF
For man to know himself is for him to feel that for him there is no human master. For him Nature is his servant, and whatsoever he wills in Nature, that shall be his reward. If he wills to be a pigmy, a serf or a slave, that shall he be. If he wills to be a real man in possession of the things common to man, then he shall be his own sovereign. When man fails to grasp his authority he sinks to the level of the lower animals, and whatsoever the real man bids him do, even as if it were of the lower animals, that much shall he do. If he says "go." He goes. If he says "come," he comes. By this command he performs the functions of life even as by a similar command the mule, the horse, the cow perform the will of their masters. For the last four hundred years the Negro has been in the position of being commanded even as the lower animals are controlled. Our race has been without a will; without a purpose of its own, for all this length of time.
Because of that we have developed few men who are able to understand the strenuousness of the age in which we live. Where can we find in this race of ours real men. Men of character, men of purpose, men of confidence, men of faith, men who really know themselves? I have come across so many weaklings who profess to be leaders, and in the test I have found them but the slaves of a nobler class. They perform the will of their masters without question. To me, a man has no master but God. Man in his authority is a sovereign lord. As for the individual man, so of the individual race. This feeling makes man so courageous, so bold, as to make it impossible for his brother to intrude upon his rights.
So few of us can understand what it takes to make a man - the man who will never say die; the man who will never give up; the man who will never depend upon others to do for him what he ought to do for himself; the man who will not blame God, who will not blame Nature, who will not blame Fate for his condition; but the man who will go out and make conditions to suit himself. Oh, how disgusting life becomes when on every hand you hear people (who bear your image, who bear your resemblance) telling you that they cannot make it, that Fate is against them, that they cannot get a chance. If 400,000,000 Negroes can only get to know thesmelves, to know that in them is a sovereign power, is an authority that is absolute, then in the next twenty-four hours we would have a new race, we would have a nation, an empire, - resurrected, not from the will of others to see us rise, - but from our own determination to rise, irrespective of what the world thinks
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940)
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THE INFLUENCE OF MARCUS GARVEY (VIDEO)
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Could be the title of this pic. I can assure you that this model here has what it takes to drive a photographer nuts during a session....More very soon. www.afrochic.book.fr