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  Teenager Sustains Spinal Cord Injury From Brutal Rape And Beating . A 17-Year-Old Lady, simply identified as Favour has been brutally raped and beaten by a 28 year-old man, Robbison Godday, in the Agbarha Industrial area of Lagos state on April 23. The lady who has been admitted into the Igbobi hospital, was said to have suffered serious spinal cord injury. Favour had earlier in the year been raped by Godday. According to her Aunt, Mary Bassey, Favour who lost her mother in 2007, and had gone to live with her friend, who happened to be the young sister of Godday. It was there the first incidence happened. She noted that when the matter was reported to the police, Robinson was arrested, and he was made to sign an undertaken never to rape her again. However, on the 23rd of April, while returning from her work place, a factory situated along the Industrial part of Agbarha, Robinson allegedly accosted her and violently raped her. "Mrs Bassey said he raped her and beat h...

  Rock N' Roll Groupies Reveal What The Lifestyle Is Really Like . It's easy to write off famous groupies off as clichés. Pop culture tends to paint them as airheaded or sex-crazed with little care to capture the actual experiences of women who lived the life. Decades after the sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll lifestyle that fueled the music scene of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, notable rock groupies like Chris O'Dell and Pamela Des Barres are sharing the real stories of how they served as mistresses and muses to some of the most beloved bands of all time. Though they can't compete with the conquests of rock's biggest groupie, they shed new light on the entire lifestyle The words of O'Dell and Des Barres go beyond the simple question of, "Why do groupies do what they do?" By telling these stories in their own words, they reclaim the narratives about them. Though the wildest groupie stories may have a hint of truth, first-hand accounts show...

 In 1803, 75 IGBOS chose to drown in the Ocean over being sold into slavery.  According to history, The Igbo slaves were said to be a rebellious breed.  They'll prefer to die free, than to be bond in chains.  They were stories of how they killed their masters and tried to escape. So, in 1803, they were been transferred to another slave ship after their first master found out how rebellious they could be. They were to be transported to a rice plantation which is renowned for brutal work and required strength.  But as the Igbos were crammed together under the deck, chained together,  The crew of the new sla.ve ship got tired of them because they were too noisy.  They went in turns to force them to shut up.  But the Igbos wouldn't listen.  Soon, the crew discovered they were not just making a noise, rather they were chanting in unison.  The chant probably increased their morals and they were able to break loose from their chains.  They...

 In 1898 New York photographer Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934) embarked on a deeply personal project, creating a set of prints that rank among the most compelling of her celebrated body of work.  Käsebier was on the threshold of a career that would establish her as both the leading portraitist of her time and an extraordinary art photographer. Her new undertaking was inspired by viewing the grand parade of Buffalo Bill's Wild West troupe en route to Madison Square Garden for several weeks of performances. Käsebier had spent her childhood on the Great Plains, and retained many vivid, happy memories of playing with nearby Native American children. She quickly sent a letter to William "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917), requesting permission to photograph in her studio the Sioux Indians traveling with the show.  Within weeks, Käsebier began a unique and special project photographing the Indian men, women, and children formally and informally. Friendships developed, and her photog...

 Written by Esa Ethridge  AFRICANS ENSLAVED AFRICANS, they sold their brothers, sisters and children most of whom were Muslims to white Christian imperialists of Europe. Slavery existed in Africa before Europeans arrived. However, their demand for slave labour was so great that traders and their agents searched far inland, devastating the region. Powerful African leaders fuelled the practice by exchanging enslaved people for goods such as alcohol, beads and cloth. In the name of Jesus Christ over 15 million black men, women and children were brutalized in the most horrible ways in the plantations of Americas and the Caribbean.    For over 200 years, powerful kings all over Africa at the request of Christians in Europe captured and sold Muslim slaves to Portuguese, French and British merchants. The slaves were usually men, women and children from rival tribes — gagged and jammed into boats bound for Brazil, Haiti and the United States  During the horrific tr...

 Everyone knows Lewis & Clark, but did you know that there was a black man who was also part of the expedition? His name was York. As William Clark's slave from boyhood, he participated as a full member of the expedition and was present when the expedition reached the Pacific Ocean. York was known for his skill in scouting, hunting, field medicine, and manual labor in extreme weather conditions. Lewis had noted in his journal how York had saved him from certain death from a grizzly bear during the expedition. The Native Nations treated York with respect, and he played a key role in diplomatic relations, mainly due to his dark skin. After the expedition returned, every member received money and land for their services, every member except York. York asked Clark for his freedom based upon his good service during the expedition, and Clark refused. York pleaded to be reunited with his wife, who was a slave in Louisville; he even offered to work in Louisville and send Clark all his ...

 Ishi (c1861 – March 25, 1916) was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from the present-day state of California in the United States.  The rest of the Yahi (as well as many members of their parent tribe, the Yana) were killed in the California genocide in the 19th century. Ishi, who was widely acclaimed as the "last wild Indian" in the United States, lived most of his life isolated from modern North American culture. In 1911, aged 50, he emerged at a barn and corral, 2 mi (3.2 km) from downtown Oroville, California. Ishi, which means "man" in the Yana language, is an adopted name. The anthropologist Alfred Kroeber gave him this name because, in the Yahi culture, tradition demanded that he not speak his own name until formally introduced by another Yahi. When asked his name, he said: "I have none, because there were no people to name me," meaning that there was no other Yahi to speak his name on his behalf. Ishi was taken in by anthropo...