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BlackPlanet is an African-American social networking service for matchmaking and job postings. The company website also contains forums for discussion on political and social issues. [2] BlackPlanet was launched by internet analyst Omar Wasow on September 1, 2001. Wasow had previously created a pre-web community dubbed New York Online in 1993 ...
New York City, New York. , United States. Owner. Urban One. Current status. Redirected to BlackPlanet. AsianAve or Asian Avenue was a social networking service that focused on Asian Americans. The platform was shut down and the URL now redirects to its sister site, BlackPlanet .
205 Hudson Street, 6th Floor. New York. , USA. Owner. Urban One. MiGente.com was an online social-networking site specifically targeting the Hispanic community. It was launched in 2000. [1] [2] Its former parent company, Community Connect Inc., claimed that MiGente.com was the fastest growing English language site for the Hispanic community ...
Life. Wasow grew up in a multi-ethnic family. His father, Bernard, is of German Jewish heritage, and his mother, Eileen, is African-American. Bernard was a civil rights activist who participated in the Freedom Summer Project, which entailed registering Black voters in Mississippi.
The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen).In 1832, James Kent wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free colored persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact ...
Background In 1988, shortly after the release of their second album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy were preparing for the European leg of the Run's House tour with Run–D.M.C. Before embarking on the tour, film director Spike Lee approached Public Enemy with the proposition of making a song for one of his movies. Lee, who was directing Do the Right Thing, sought ...
This table lists all of two-letter codes (set 1), one per language for ISO 639 macrolanguage , and some of the three-letter codes of the other sets, formerly parts 2 and 3. Language formed from English and Vanuatuan languages, with some French influence. Modern Hebrew.
C1. "Fight the Power" (from Fear of a Black Planet) – 4:36 C2. "911 Is a Joke" (from Fear of a Black Planet) – 3:17 D1. "Welcome to the Terrordome" (from Fear of a Black Planet) – 5:26 E1. "Brothers Gonna Work It Out" (from Fear of a Black Planet) – 5:08 E2. "Can't Do Nuttin' for Ya Man" (from Fear of a Black Planet) – 2:47 F1.