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Introduction:Israel has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world. The intense sunlight of the region, combined with a population whose ancestry comes from much cooler and lower-UV environments, creates a biological mismatch. Understanding why this happens means understanding how skin color evolved in direct response to the sun. Israel’s Climate and UV Radiation Israel sits at a latitude with very strong ultraviolet radiation. The UV index often ranges from 9 to 11 during the warmer months — classified as “very high” to “extreme.” This intensity means that even short exposure without protection can cause DNA damage…

Introduction:Human skin color isn’t random — it’s the result of thousands of years of adaptation to sunlight intensity. The world’s Indigenous peoples developed a spectrum of melanin levels shaped by geography, climate, and ultraviolet radiation exposure. The chart below connects historic UV levels in major regions to the skin pigmentation of their native populations. RegionExample Indigenous PeoplesAverage UV IndexTypical Skin PigmentationEquatorial AfricaYoruba, Akan, Igbo, Kongo, Nilotic groups11–16+ (Extreme)Very dark eumelanin-rich pigmentation protecting against UV damage and folate lossSahel & Horn of AfricaFulani, Hausa, Tuareg, Oromo, Somali9–16 (High–Extreme)Dark to very dark pigmentation with gradual lightening northwardNorth AfricaAmazigh, Nubian6–10 (Moderate–High)Medium to dark…

A Timeline of Erasure and Reclaiming Egypt’s African Empire (2700–1070 BCE)Across the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms, Egypt ruled lands reaching deep into Nubia and far north through Sinai into Canaan. Temples, governors, and trade routes tied everything from the Nile to the Levant under African control. The lands that would later be called Israel and Palestine were African-ruled for almost two thousand years. Greek Witness (5th–4th centuries BCE)Greek historians like Herodotus and philosophers like Aristotle described Egyptians and Ethiopians as dark-skinned peoples, confirming that the world saw Egypt as part of Africa and its people as Black. Classical testimony…

What the text actually says The amendment reads that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. That exception is the legal doorway. It authorizes forced labor when the state secures a conviction. National Archives+2Congress.gov+2 Who it specifically targeted After the Civil War, Southern legislatures wrote Black Codes and vagrancy laws to criminalize everyday Black life. Being unemployed could be a crime. Petty acts were upgraded to felonies. This was not neutral lawmaking. It was a program to arrest and convict Black people in bulk, so the…

From the very first national symbols to place names on the Mississippi and the monumental skyline of Washington, elites in the early United States repeatedly selected Egyptian forms, language, and imagery. This was not accidental. It projected antiquity, permanence, sacred authority, and empire. Below is a sourced walkthrough of the flag’s star field parallels, the Great Seal’s pyramid and eye, the naming and material links around Memphis, and the national habit of raising obelisks and sphinxes. The closing section weighs what this means for the question of America taking on the role of Egypt, with Deuteronomy 28:68 as a frame.…

When Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” on April 3, 1968, he peppered his rhetoric with unmistakable biblical resonance. King Institute+2American Rhetoric+2 In the closing lines he said: “He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.” American Rhetoric+2King Institute+2 The metaphor is clear. Like Moses glimpsing Canaan from Mount Nebo (Deuteronomy 34:1-4), King claims a prophetic vantage:…

What the FBI actually wrote, when it wrote it, and whom it meant On March 4, 1968, FBI headquarters issued a nationwide directive expanding its COINTELPRO program against what it labeled “Black Nationalist Hate Groups.” The memo set five long range goals. Goal number two reads, verbatim, “to prevent the rise of a ‘messiah’ who could unify, and electrify, the militant black nationalist movement.” The same passage names specific people in that context. “Malcolm X might have been such a ‘messiah’” and “Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael, and Elijah Muhammad all aspire to this position.” The Church Committee reproduced this…

Wool and Hair: A Repeated Metaphor Across the Ancient World There is frequent discussion about the phrase “hair like wool,” often centered on its racial implications. Yet what receives far less attention is the metaphor itself—the persistence of its linguistic form and imagery across cultures and centuries. Its recurrence suggests a pattern worth examining not for its polemics, but for its remarkable continuity of metaphorical imagination. To begin, consider the two foundational biblical texts: Daniel 7:9 (KJV) “I watched till thrones were put in place,And the Ancient of Days was seated;His garment was white as snow,And the hair of His…

Hebrew has roots going back at least to the 10th century BCE (e.g. Gezer Calendar), making its documented life about 3,000 years. Wikipedia+3Wikipedia+3My Jewish Learning+3 But here’s the thing: for nearly two millennia, Hebrew was not a living mother tongue. It survived as a liturgical, literary, and scholarly language while Jews in everyday life spoke Aramaic, then Greek, Arabic, Yiddish, Ladino, etc. dynamiclanguage.com+3National Geographic+3My Jewish Learning+3 When we say the “spoken Hebrew revival,” we’re talking about a window of roughly 140-150 years. Modern Hebrew as a vernacular only truly began in the late 19th century. National Geographic+3Wikipedia+3My Jewish Learning+3 So…

The 1747 map A New and Accurate Map of Negroland and the Adjacent Countries by Emanuel Bowen marks a section of West Africa as the Kingdom of Juda or Whidah (Slave Coast) (Library of Congress). This map is evidence that European cartographers knew exactly who they were targeting. They labeled the region “Juda” because the people there identified as descendants of the Israelites. That region, located in what is now southern Benin, was the same place known in colonial records as the Slave Coast. The Kingdom of Whydah, also spelled Whidah or Juda, was a major hub of the Atlantic…