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  205,832 views Genesis 5:32 indicates that Noah became the father of Shem , Ham and Japheth from the age of 500 years old, but does not list in detail their specific years. (Noah was 600 years old at the time of the flood in Genesis 7.) An incident involving Ham is related in Genesis 9:20-27 .  And Noah began to be an husbandman, and planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.  And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the L ORD , t...

June is an excellent month for Black Americans. We have Men’s Health Month, Father’s Day, and Juneteenth. Three significant occasions that should prompt all of us to step up and claim our leadership roles within the respective communities we live, work and play in. Black women do a stellar job of supporting each other, and this is something we as men should mirror. From #BlackGirlMagic, women’s empowerment events, business initiatives, sisterhood, and more. This is a month where we are celebrating black liberation, fathers, and health. Among this, we should use this month as a call to arms and action. For this month, we are focusing on truly being ‘My Brothers Keeper.' To accomplish this, it’s time to lend a hand to other brothers in need. It is something simple as giving a friend who rides transit a ride to key places, supporting a business owned by a black man, donating to a brother founded organization, taking in a few boys as mentees this summer a...

  George Lester Jackson (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971) was an African-American author. While serving a sentence for armed robbery in 1961, Jackson became involved in revolutionary activity and co-founded the Maoist-Marxist Black Guerrilla Family . In 1970, he was charged, along with two other Soledad Brothers , with the murder of prison guard John Vincent Mills in the aftermath of a prison fight. The same year, he published Soledad Brother:  The Prison Letters of George Jackson , a combination of autobiography and manifesto addressed to a black American audience. The book would become a best-seller and earn Jackson personal fame.  Born in Chicago , Jackson was the second son of Lester and Georgia Bea Jackson's five children. He spent time in the California Youth Authority Corrections facility in Paso Robles due to several juvenile convictions including armed robbery, assault, and burglary. In 1961, he was convicted of armed robbery (stealin...

People are deliberately starting fires in the #AmazonRainforest to illegally deforest indigenous land for cattle ranching Pataxó woman: “These assholes came in and burned down [our reservation]... I want all of the media here to see this” pic.twitter.com/uGFp7RItHK — Sunrise Movement 🌅 (@sunrisemvmt) August 21, 2019 American climate change activist group ‘ Sunrise Movement ‘ provided a translation of the  Pataxó   woman’s tearful outburst which reads: ‘For 2 years we’ve fought to preserve [our reservation] & these assholes came in & burned it down. They are killing our rivers, our sources of life, & now they have set our reserve on fire. Tomorrow we are closing the roads & I want all the media here to see this.’ The tribeswoman’s accusations, if proven true, will coincide with a  report   which suggests that the ongoing fire is an attempt to clear parts of the Amazon rainforest for cattle ranching. Brazil’s cattle ranching, whi...

Why Trickle Down Economic Works in Theory But Not in Fact  Trickle-down economics is a theory that claims benefits for the wealthy trickle down to everyone else. These benefits are tax cuts on businesses, high-income earners,  capital gains , and  dividends . Trickle-down economics assumes investors, savers, and company owners are the real drivers of growth. It promises they’ll use any extra cash from  tax cuts  to expand businesses. Investors will buy more companies or stocks. Banks will increase lending. Owners will invest in their operations and hire workers. All of this expansion will trickle down to workers. They will spend their wages to drive  demand  and economic growth. Trickle-Down Economic Theory Trickle-down economic theory is similar to  supply-side economics . That theory states that all  tax cuts , regardless of whether they are for businesses or workers , spur economic growth. ...

Economic News Release     THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- JULY 2019 Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 164,000 in July, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Notable job gains occurred in professional and technical services, health care, social assistance, and financial activities. This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures labor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment survey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information about the concepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical Note. Household Survey Data The unemployment rate held at 3.7 percent in July, and the number of unemployed persons was little changed at 6.1 million. (See table A-1.) Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for Asians increased to 2.8...

Painting of Clinton in blue dress hung in Jeffrey Epstein’s home   Macabre decor of financier’s Manhattan residence included prosthetic eyeballs, a human chessboard, stuffed poodle, and doll swinging from a chandelier By  TOI STAFF   Jeffrey Epstein reportedly had an oil painting of former US president Bill Clinton dressed in women’s clothing conspicuously displayed in his Manhattan townhouse. “It was hanging up there prominently — as soon as you walked in — in a room to the right,” a law enforcement source  told The New York Post  on Wednesday. “Everybody who saw it laughed and smirked.” The artwork by artist Petrina Ryan-Kleid shows the former US president draped over a chair in the Oval Office, dressed in a blue dress and red heels recalling his tryst with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. It wasn’t the only oddity in the sprawling 51,000-square-ft. home of the US financier and convicted pedophile. According to  The New York Times...

On March 3, 1865, Congress passed “ An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees ” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans. The Freedmen’s Bureau was to operate “during the present war of rebellion, and for one year thereafter,” and also established schools, supervised contracts between freedmen and employers, and managed confiscated or abandoned lands. The battle to establish the Freedmen’s Bureau, and then to extend the legislation one year later, was a major factor in the struggle between President Andrew Johnson and Radical Republicans in Congress over Reconstruction and the role of the federal government in integrating four million newly emancipated African Americans into the political life of the nation. In 1863 Representative T. D. Eliot of Massachusetts proposed a bill establishing a bureau of emancipatio...

Freedmen's Bureau Jump to: navigation , search Photograph of engraving of Colonel Robert Kingston Scott, 68th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (Civil War), chief of South Carolina's Freedmen's Bureau, as well as governor of that state, ca. 1860-1869. The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was to provide displaced persons of the South, including both whites and blacks, with assistance at the end of the American Civil War.   The United States government formally created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands on March 3, 1865. Better known as the Freedmen's Bureau, the War Department oversaw the agency. General Oliver Otis Howard served as the bureau's director. The Freedmen's Bureau opened schools to provide newly freed African Americans and whites with educational opportunities. This agency also helped find employment for people of all races.  In 1866, the United States Congress voted to continue the Freedmen...