People I appreciate in Life....

I hope I am not taking up too much space here but there are a few things I want to do...like set up a list of people in my life I truly loved for who they turned out to be. one of them is Donna Summer

I cant get over how genuine Summer was, a truly sweet human being. a determined and excellent professional. a genuine mother and wife.

Donna Summer was put through hell publicly, smeared to the high heavens in hurtful and atrocious ways. Summer turned out to be nothing like the grapevine described her to be. Summer turned out to be a kind of special human being who I am truly glad I knew and played her music all the time because I loved it

Take a look at Summers beautiful children..and proud Mama at the side

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=donna+summer+a...0%2F33.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Summer

Check out Summer on Wicky Wacky. it is not often we this length of commentary on a Wiki entry.

Summer was for real. it struck me right here today that we are dealing with a true star in Donna Summer, for real..one of the true ones

Donna Summers Daughter Amanda

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Images+of+Aman...images.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar


www.google.com/search?q=kareem+abdul+jab...igB&biw=1280&bih=656

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-6137-3679-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Mayfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_conti...aj29ZBzCbw

an utterly amazing, creative and incredible song. listen to the guitar industry on this song....

can this be surpassed.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_conti...k9IqMz6IDs

This man is my 'father'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Van_Sertima

http://www.journalofafricancivilizations.com/VanSertima


He is a literary critic, a linguist, an anthropologist and has made a name in all three fields.

As a literary critic, he is the author of Caribbean Writers, a collection of critical essays on the Caribbean novel. He is also the author of several major literary reviews published in Denmark, India, Britain and the United States. He was honored for his work in this field by being asked by the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy to nominate candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1976-1980. He has also been honored as an historian of world repute by being asked to join UNESCO's International Commission for Rewriting the Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind.

As a linguist, he has published essays on the dialect of the Sea Islands off the Georgia Coast. He is also the compiler of the Swahili Dictionary of Legal Terms, based on his field work in Tanzania, East Africa, in 1967.

He is the author of They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America, which was published by Random House in 1977 and is presently in its twenty-ninth printing. It was published in French in 1981 and in the same year, was awarded the Clarence L. Holte Prize, a prize awarded every two years “for a work of excellence in literature and the humanities relating to the cultural heritage of Africa and the African diaspora.”

He also authored Early America Revisited, a book that has enriched the study of a wide range of subjects, from archaeology to anthropology, and has resulted in profound changes in the reordering of historical priorities and pedagogy.

Ivan Van Sertima and the African Presence in the Olmec World: A Photo Essay

The first civilization of the Americas is called the Olmec. The Olmec were an early people of Mesoamerica who settled the Mexican Gulf Coast. This ancient American culture has been labeled the first civilization of the western hemisphere, as they surpassed their neighbors in an attempt to settle certain problems of living together — of government, defense, religion, family, property, science and art. In this endeavor, the Olmec laid the foundations of classical Mesoamerican civilization.