Guyana- Capitol TV News Videos – 10 March 2017
DPP and former Chief-of-Staff questioned over Pradoville 2 saga
Posted: 10 Mar 2017 06:56 PM PST
Gov’t confident that police can address issues of immunity from Pradoville 2 saga
Posted: 10 Mar 2017 06:42 PM PST
BHC to Guyana speaks on role of UK crime expert, in ongoing Pradoville 2 investigations
Posted: 10 Mar 2017 06:35 PM PST
Relatives of slain political activist remembers him two years after his murder
Posted: 10 Mar 2017 06:05 PM PST
Land Commissioners sworn in before President David Granger
Posted: 10 Mar 2017 05:57 PM PST
Police unearthed two more high powered weapons
Posted: 10 Mar 2017 05:45 PM PST
LGBT activists and head of SASOD protest
Posted: 10 Mar 2017 07:44 PM PST
The Black Mothers of America – By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine
The Black Mothers of America
By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine
Phillis Wheatley
…No more, America, in mournful strain Of wrongs, and grievances and unredress’d. No longer shall thou dread the iron chain Which wanton Tyranny with lawless hand Had made, and with it meant t’enslave the land. – Phillis Wheatley 1772
We hear a great deal about the founding fathers of America. But how about the Black mothers of America and the role they played in shaping the destiny of the nation? Phillis Wheatley’s verses lamented the institution of slavery in America. Wheatley was an accomplished poet who wrote her memoirs and published a number of poems on a variety of subjects.
Her history is most interesting. Wheatley was born in Senegal and was captured and taken to the shores of America when she was seven years old. She was purchased by John Wheatley as a gift to his wife and they gave her the ‘Wheatley’ title. Continue reading →
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