Ability to recognize and identify the unique gifts of Black World communities in the areas of spirituality, philosophy, literature, politics, and the arts and discuss the impact which these gifts have exerted in enriching world civilization for millennia; Ability to reasonably discuss Africa as the cradle of humanity and civilization, locate Black culture in space and time from its earliest beginnings, and describe the varied ways in which Black people's cultural identity and gifts have come to expression across global communities; Ability to understand the history of enslavement of Africans in the Western hemisphere and the European colonization of Africa as this history relates to current issues of racial injustice and social inequality in the US, Africa, and elsewhere; Ability to appreciate the liberation struggles of Black World communities and the inspirational impact these struggles have exerted globally on other civil and human rights movements; Ability to understand African descended peoples as actors or agents of justice rather than as helpless victims of injustice on the stage of history, recognizing that the primary reality is not what oppressors have done to Blacks, but what Blacks have done and are currently doing to resist, counter, and overcome their oppressor's power to enslave, exploit, defame, and dominate