Free 757 Kwanzaa Events for 2018

Free 757 Kwanzaa Events for 2018

Harambe for the Holidays Stage Play

Wed, Dec 26

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM &  6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

The Kroc Center Hampton Roads,

1401 Ballentine Blvd, Norfolk, VA 23504, USA

Contact:  info@coreythetalentedblindguy.com 

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Dec 27, Thursday, 2-4pm

The Sophisticated Ladies

100 Stillwell Rd, Hampton

Dr. Jeter Giles, 757-287-7453

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Dec. 27, Thursday, 7-9pm

The SANKOFA Collective

Montego Island Grill,

829 Lynnhaven Parkway,

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Contact: whereBlackBiz@gmail.com  

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Dec 28, Friday, 2-4pm

The Sophisticated Ladies

100 Stillwell Rd, Hampton

Dr. Jeter Giles, 757-287-7453

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Dec 29, Sat, 2-4pm

The Sophisticated Ladies

100 Stillwell Rd, Hampton

Dr. Jeter Giles, 757-287-7453

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Dec. 30, Sunday 2-6pm

NIA Fest 2018

A Positive Vibes Kwanzaa

Kids, Family, & Adult Fun

Military Circle Mall,

Norfolk, Virginia

     Contact Cindy (757) 359-2978

     employedProfessionals@Gmail.com

2:00 Opening

2:05 Line Dancing Party

2:55 Brandon Pope Talk

3:00 Intense Fiyaaaaa Party

3:15 Che Che Cule

         Candle Lighting Ceremony

         Poet Ashley McBride

         1st Lynnhaven Youth 

3:30 Turquoise's Dance

3:45 Kenick El Talk

3:50 Va. Beach Goju

4:00 Fashion Show

5:00 Che Che Cule

       YLYM Talk

       Candle Lighting

       Songstress Ashley McBride

       Poet Koncrete Rose

5:30 Family Party

6:00 Closing

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Dec. 30, Sunday 3-5pm

Kwanzaa Celebration

2432 Ingleside Road

Norfolk, Virginia

Diana Chappell (757) 353-3358

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Jan 1, 2019, Tuesday, 2-4pm

Location TBA

Food/drink will be served

Door prizes will be given!

Dr. Jeter Giles, 757-287-7453

https://blackimprovement.blogspot.com/2018/12/free-757-kwanzaa-events-for-2018.html

#NIAfest 2018 - Sunday 12-30-2018 Military Circle Mall, Norfolk, VA 2 pm - 6 pm NIA Fest

Join Positive Vibes Inc. as we celebrate the season with our annual NIA Fest. Nia Fest is our FREE Kwanzaa themed holiday event. Enjoy children's activities, family fun, performances, dancing, vendors, and cultural activities on Sunday December 30th from 2 pm - 6 pm in Military Circle Mall's Food Court and surrounding areas. For additional details email  PositiveVibesDJs@gmail.com .
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@TariqNasheed & Renegade Culture & #theSANKOFAnetwork & #ChooseSekoVArner

Prosperity Conscious 757,

     Conscious757 has recently been in talks with the Uber-controversial-yet-conscious figures Dr. Umar Johnson & Tariq Nasheed. We decided to support sister Chrystal who is bringing Umar to Suffolk in July (see below) and we began talks with Tariq Nasheed. We are in the process of arranging a talk with Tariq in the 757. Date and Time are to be announced. If you are interested in investing (for a profitable return) in this effort, email WhereBlackBiz@gmail.com and They'll provide details as they come available.

Dr. Umar Johnson in Suffolk, Virginia. 7/15/18 Sun. 4pm
Temple Beth-El, 3927 Bridge Road, Suffolk, VA
DrUmarSuffolk@Gmail.Com 757-609-0166
http://www.eventbee.com/event?eid=107560862

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One of the podcasts to enjoy is the new podcast called RENEGADE CULTURE. You can check them out on your podcast player or on Soundcloud. Here's their link:

https://soundcloud.com/renegade-culture

"Our podcast is speaking truth to power and the powerless. We are having a conversation on moving forward for Black people. In the streets, in the boardrooms and everywhere in between. We be doin it for the Culture!!!"

• renegadeculture.org
• renegade culture
• @KamauFranklin
• @KalonjiChanga
• Siafu Movement

Also check out Seko's podcast - The Fly Guys Podcast (#FlyGuysPodcast)

https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-fly-guys-757 

He recently did a FLY episode with Starr Armstrong on #MeToo vs. Hip-Hop.

https://www.spreaker.com/user/positivevibesinc/metoo-vs-hiphop-more-men-should-be-outra

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This Friday The SANKOFA will include members from Project Inclusion!

Time for some networking and fun in one venue! The Project Inclusion Alumni Association is on the move and invite you to a Friday After work Bash at the Montego Island Grille Friday June 29th at 7:00 pm 829 Lynnhaven Parkway Virginia Beach. United Way of South Hampton Roads Project Inclusion Leadership Development Program Alumni Association is creating a platform for non-profit organizations to connect with the community and leadership groups of United Way. United Way of South Hampton Roads Women's United and Project Inclusion Alumni Association members will be in attendance for more information on community impact. 

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By the way.........................

Did you know that Seko is running for an At-Large seat for the Virginia Beach School Board?

If you can assist, let him know!

www.ChooseSekoVarner.com

ChooseSekoVarner@Gmail.com

757-932-0177

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STAY WOKE....and then do something....

Stride with Pride y'all.
CONSCIOUS757

The March edition of Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies

Greetings:

The March edition of Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies (www.jpanafrican.org) is online (open-access, no-cost), featuring: two interviews, a book review, an electronic book focused on the African centered paradigm, an ancestral tribute profiling the late Hugh Masekela, a guest editorial, a recent lecture synopsis on the  Ongoing Impact of Negritude via links between Aimé Césaire and Black Lives Matter, four announcements (African American Digital Humanities conference,  Angela Y. Davis Papers at Harvard University, etc.), an annotated list of 20 new books relevant to Africology, and 13 articles on the politics of genocide denial in Ethiopia, demystifying social economic predicaments of public health in Nigeria, audiences perceptions of informative programs at Jimma Fana FM 98.1 in Jimma, Ethiopia, postcolonial reading of contemporary African poetry, Ubuntu-inspired approach to enhancing organizational culture in rural Kenya, an analysis of Guyana's national grade six assessment, values in Nigerian literature, a critique of a previously A:JPAS published paper focused on modern African Women versus traditional African women in relationship to the African Renaissance, religious movements and lethal violence in Nigeria, the promises and perils of attempting an African centered institution in a public school system, a Diopian analysis of the symbolisms of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, reconstructing the social sciences and humanities for the advancement of the African Renaissance, and other content that explore the African ethos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

FREE African American Male Summit for 7th - 12th grade young men 1/20/18

The annual event commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through the demonstration of student leadership, community involvement, physical and mental well-being and relationship building sessions. As the inspiration for this year’s theme, event organizers cite an excerpt from a speech King delivered to an audience at a junior high school in 1967: “Be the best of whatever you are.” Organizers said “the words resonate the spirit of total well-being and leadership that we want to cultivate in young men across our school division. We want our youth to recognize the importance of total well-being as an essential component of being life ready.”

Emphasizing the theme will be keynote speaker, Honorable Judge Kevin M. Duffan, of the Virginia Beach Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. Duffan is a graduate of Green Run High School, James Madison University and the William & Mary School of Law.

Following the keynote address, students will have the opportunity to engage in breakout sessions led by small business leaders, doctors, nutritionists, mental health professionals, college and university staff, law enforcement, Navy SEALs and more. Due to the active nature of the sessions this year, participants are asked to wear khaki pants or dark pants with a school t-shirt or school colors to represent their middle or high school.

Parents are also invited to register for the summit and participate in Parent Institute sessions.

The African American Male Summit is sponsored by the school division’s Office of Opportunity and Achievement. For more information, contact Dr. LaQuiche Parrott, director, at 757-263-1218.

Media Flyer / Press Release - PiM 2018 - 15th Anniversary Special

Greetings Family,

Here's hoping all is well for 2018 and beyond.

Kindly give us your love and support for Poetry in Motion 2018 - 15th Anniversary. Please see below for flyer & press release.

With Honour, Love & Poetree

YA

PiM 2018 - 15th Anniversary Special

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Poetry in Motion 2018-15th Anniversary-Care&Share,Thanks   

Press Release

Poetry in Motion 2018 - The 15th Anniversary

Clean Intelligent Fun for the Entire Jamaican Family and Community

The ancient and abiding art of Poetry is the essence of language and the currency of the mind, thereby, nurturing our Languages, Social Fabric, Music, Art, and Culture.

It is to our fortune and honour that Jamaica's premiere annual poetry festival, Poetry in Motion, is the longest running and most successful poetry annual poetry event/festival in the colourful history of Jamaica. 

Poetry in Motion, which is affectionately called PiM, shall celebrate it's 15th anniversary on Sunday February 25th at the Manchester Golf Club in the cool, cool hills of Mandeville and we have added several layers of value to it.

The Royal Affair - 15th Anniversary Special - PiM Mandeville Weekend 

Sports and Arts - In light of it's 15th Anniversary, Poetry in Motion 2018 has developed new celebratory features: Royal Affair Dance Party, dubbed the Ivory Edition on Friday February 23rd also at Manchester Golf Club. It features Simple Touch Sound with DJ Ashile (of RIE FM), DJ Rope Head and DJ Marlon. Sunday February 25th features our flagship event, Poetry in Motion which shall be preceded by a celebratory 9 Hole Golf Tournament beginning at 9 am. This special tournament is a friendly Shotgun Start and a Two Man Best Ball. We will also be having a football tournament.

The PiM 9 Hole Golf Tournament is a charitable venture and all the proceeds shall be presented to Mr Foster in honour of his 50th Year of service at the Manchester Golf Club. This gesture is fitting this long-serving, loyal and dedicated bartender at the Manchester Club. For bookings your spot in the tournament contact Manchester Golf Club Tel 962-2403.

Poetry in Motion which is the brain child of Yasus Afari, celebrates Music, Dance, Comedy, Story Telling, Fashion and Poetry. It is a charitable community festival with a national and international appeal. PiM has sustained it's reputation of providing the very best in poetry and the entire spectrum of the cultural and performing arts, presenting Clean Intelligent Fun for the Entire Family and Community. PiM 2018 is in support of 'Friends in Need' which is a worthy Mandeville based

 charity that takes care of street people, thereby advocating our ideals of social-responsibility. 

This very important national calendar event is the pride and joy of Mandeville, Central Jamaica and the poetry fraternity as it has helped to nurture, promote and thus ensure the growth of Jamaican Poetree. 

Poetry in Motion 2018 features Mutabaruk a, Ka'Bu Ma'at Kheru, Addis Pablo, Dr Michael Abrahams, Prof Clinton Hutton, Asante Amen,  Mark Stephenson,Dr Charmaine Gooden-Monteith, Ann-Marie Wilmot, Kevin O'Brien Chang, Anord Sichinsambwe, Ashley Little and Yasus Afari, among others.

As we chronicle our 15th Anniversary Special we invite the entire Jamaica Family to celebrate with us in a yearlong celebration of Poetry with related events, cultural activities, prizes and surprises. To colour mark the mile stone our 15th Anniversary Colours are Ivory and Ruby Red.

Thanks for your love and support as we look forward a most successful and inspirational staging of our 15th Anniversary of Poetry in Motion - Jamaica's Premiere Poetry Festival and our national Feast of the Literary, Cultural and Performing Arts.

With Honour, Love and Poetree,

YA

PiM 2018 - 15th Anniversary 

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Pray, by Preparing for What You Pray!

www.yasusafari.com
www.yasusafarionline.com
www.jamaicapoetryfestival.com

1Earth,1Love,1Humanity - Honour, Love & Prosperity

 

Brown Girls Billionaire Gang & KMK Productions & THE SANKOFA Friday 1-26-2018 @ 7pm FREE

Join us Friday 1/26/18 @ 7pm @ Montego Island Grille in Virginia Beach for THE SANKOFA ! Special guests Ashlan Rae of Brown Girls Billionaire Gang,
https://www.browngirlsbillionairegang.com/

Kimberly Wimbish of KMK Productions !

Bring your business cards, be ready for the Pitch Contest, enjoy great food, network with the 200+ Men, members of BlackBrand, hang with Jazmine Smith, Bert Bergan, Cynthia Blackwell, network with US, and enjoy DJ Seko VArner keeping the Vibes going, FREE this month !

Black-Majority Nations Outside of Africa (Excerpt from FutureNomics) - The Conscious Rasta

(Photo: American Spoken Word Artist and Social & Cultural Revolutionary Queen Sheeba sporting attire that strongly affirms that she is a BLACK person, or a person of African descent.)

Let's build a tremendous future together. Here is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of FUTURENOMICS: The Grass is Greener on Both Sides of the Border:

Black-Majority Nations Outside of Africa

There are today more than 70 Black-majority nations in the world, more than 20 of these groupings outside of Africa. This number looms even larger as we consider that many Pacific Islander nations are majority-populated by Melanesians and Papuans, both of whom are of predominantly African genetic heritage, their genetic roots being mixed with Asian and European voyagers in recent centuries. Culturally, many Pacific Islanders have retained significant resemblance to root African social patterns. 


(photo: Native Hawaiians who were instrumental in popularizing the sport of surfing. 
http://www.surfingforlife.com/history2.html)


Twenty western hemisphere nations, several of them territorial protectorates of the U.K, U.S. and Netherlands, have Black-majority populations ranging from as high as Haiti's 95% to a majority Black/mixed Brazil with 50.7%. Toward our aim of creating robust transnational relationships with national populations whose cultural heritage most closely matches our own, creating deeper economic ties with these nations would be a bold and productive strategic move.

These twenty western hemispheric nations with Black-majority populations are:
• Anguilla - 85.3%
• Antigua & Barbuda - 87.3%
• Bahamas - 90.6%
• Barbados - 92.4%
• Bermuda - 53.8%
• Brazil - 50.7% Mulatto (mixed black/white) and Black
• British Virgin Islands - 76.3%
• Cayman Islands - 60% (includes creole mixed)
• Curacao – “Afro-Caribbean majority”
• Dominica - 86.6%
• Grenada - 82.4%
• Haiti - 95%
• Jamaica - 92.1%
• Montserrat - 88.4%
• St. Kitts & Nevis - 92.7%
• Saint Lucia - 85.3%
• Saint Marten - Majority Creole (mixed black/white) and Black
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - 66%
• Turks and Caicos Islands - 87.6%
• Virgin Islands (US) - 76%

On the African continent there are five countries identified as Arab Maghreb (Includes Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Tunisia), four of which are of “Berber” majority populations; considered a mix of predominantly Arabs, Blacks and Mediterranean. Of these Maghreb nations only one, Mauritania has a 70% black majority. Egypt, which is not listed as a Maghreb partner, has a dominant population that does not consider themselves “black Africans,” referring to themselves simply as “Egyptian.” The genetic mix of modern Egypt includes an ancient blend of Arab, Mediterranean, Black African and western Asia.

There is a large population dispersed across the Pacific Ocean region inhabiting regions of island groupings called Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia. From visual as well as genetic evidence of their ethnicity, we can determine that a number of these Pacific Islanders are essentially African with ancient origins dating back 50,000 years and quite likely much earlier. 

Learn more at www.FutureNomics.biz

Advanced showing of Marvel's BLACK PANTHER movie on Thursday 2/15/18 in Norfolk Virginia #BlackPanther #TheBlackPantherMovie

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-panther-pre-release-screening-party-tickets-42028183428?aff=erelexpmlt 

It’s not just a superhero it’s a Melanated Superhero.

Black Panther, the latest release by Marvel is coming to the big screen and you get to be a part of history.

Black Panther is the SECOND Melinated Marvel superhero to hit the big screen in their OWN movie and what’s more is this powerhouse film is directed by a brother, Ryan Coogler.

Make sure that you are at the special premier and screening and be a part as he jumps from the pages of comic books to the Silver Screen and make the world take notice!

Come dressed normally, in Cosplay, or in your favorite Cultural clothing.

After-party to follow at the American Legion Hall next door.

You are going to love it!

Portion of the proceeds to benefit:

• Black Brand (Hampton Roads Black Business Chamber of Commerce)

• Urban League of Hampton Roads Young Professionals

Date: Thursday February 15

Place: Cinemark Theaters,
Military Circle Mall
880 Military Hwy.
Norfolk VA

Time: 6:00P

***Tickets can be purchased in advance via Eventbrite.***

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-panther-pre-release-screening-party-tickets-42028183428?aff=erelexpmlt   

***Tickets are also available in the Military Circle Mall Toy Store & African Arts Store !!!

#TheSankofa - Keeping OUR WOKE Dollars in OUR Community ! #WokeFolk757

THE SANKOFA is where WE hang with each other & network with OUR businesses !

Peace Conscious Community,

    Do you believe in doing business with ourselves as much as is appropriate ? If you do then come and hangout with us WOKE-FOLK for FREE on 1/26/18 from 7pm - 9pm @ Montegos Island Grill in Virginia Beach (829 Lynnhaven Parkway across from Lynnhaven Mall). Hang with THE SANKOFA Team, members of the 200+ Men, and members of BLACKbrand.

     FREE limited Food, link-up with other WOKE FOLK and you'll meet those of us who can provide products and services to you and yours. Food and Drink specials from Montegos. If you are also into business, come and bring your business cards!!!! Afterwards party with #DjSekoVarner until Midnight.

#WokeFolk757

#Conscious757

For info' contact:

Seko "DJ Seko" Varner

757-932-0177

757-228-9476 - Website View in Browser → The Business Curator 1/8/2018 Hi there , I was thinking, you have an amazing service but not enough of the right people know you exist!!!  How do we change that???  Networking is probably one of the best ways to get to the money.  RSVP and join me on January 26. Stats:  Last month's event generated approx. $500 worth of value for the attendees. "There are no shortages of money—it’s everywhere. Just visit a casino in Vegas. Take a look at the tables, the venues, the bars, the entertainment. All you have to do is figure out how to collect it for yourself." - GC  “Video marketing is, without a doubt, one of the biggest reasons I’ve been able to create a multiple six-figure business online.” – Katie Freiling Bert Bergan  757-228-9476 (m) Website Twitter Facebook

( #Moors & #WhiteGold ) When #Blacks enslaved #Whites - The Story of Thomas Pellow and One Million White Slaves

Whites slaves tell their own story in their own words about how they were shanghaied and taken back to North Africa as slaves. Over 2 million whites are reported to have been taken as slaves after being shanghaied by Moors known as Barbary Coast pirates or Riff Pirates or Barbary Corsairs.

Descendants of white slaves in Mauritania

has been purposely kept from you. We will discuss the over two million white people who were taken back to various parts of North Africa as slaves to their Muslim black Moorish, Arab masters. The majority were captured by Barbary pirates also known as Barbary Corsairs and Riff pirates. We also discuss a famous statue called "The Four Moors" which depicts King Ferdinand de' Medecini standing over four shackled 'Moors" (black of course) in celebration over his eventual victory over the black corsairs who'd terrorized the coastal areas on their pirate raids. It's a historical fact that over 2000 ships were captured and shanghaied and the white passengers were taken to Morocco and other parts of North Africa as slaves.

The flag of Sardinia, called the flag of the Four Moors or simply the Four Moors (Italian: I quattro mori; Sardinian: Sos bator moros in Logudorese or Is cuatru morus in Campidanese), is the official flag of the autonomous region of Sardinia, Italy, and the historical flag and coat of arms of the Kingdom of Sardinia, described as a "white field with a red cross and a bandaged Moor's head facing away from the left (the edge close to the mast) in each quarter" (Regional Law 15 April 1999, n. 10, Article 1.)^[1]

The flag is composed of the St George's Cross and four heads of Moors, which in the past were not forehead bandaged but blindfolded and turned towards the left. The most accepted hypothesis is that the heads represented the heads of Moorish princes defeated by the Aragonese, as for the first time they appeared in the 13th century seals of the Crown of Aragon – although with a beard and no bandage, contrary to the Moors of the Sardinian flag, which appeared for the first time in a manuscript of the second half of the 14th century.

"From the sixteenth to nineteenth century, the Muslim Barbary Pirates captured over a million Europeans at sea and through raiding parties along the Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines. The victims were then transported back to North Africa, where they were sold as slaves or sent further east into the Ottoman Empire’s heartland."

https://ostarapublications.com/product/the-adventures-of-thomas-pellow-of-penryn-mariner-three-and-twenty-years-in-captivity-among-the-moors/ 

"Attractive European women were sent to the sultan's harem, and the strongest men to breeding farms to mate with black Senegalese slaves, Ismail believing that mulattos made the most trustworthy workers. One Frenchman was locked up, naked, for six days with a bottle of brandy and four women, a eunuch keeping watch; whenever sexual activity flagged, he ordered a drum serenade." - Giles Milton

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3619651/The-depraved-sultan-and-his-forgotten-white-slaves.html

One October evening in 1738, the population of Penryn abandoned their village to welcome home a man with a great long beard and sun-blackened face. Not even his parents recognised Thomas Pellow, who had been seized by Barbary corsairs when he was 11 and taken to Morocco, where he spent 23 years as a slave of Mulay Ismail, a sultan of story-book depravity.

Pellow's adventures, ghosted by a local hack in 1740, are the catalyst for Giles Milton's rattling account of the forgotten white slaves of North Africa: an estimated one million Europeans and Americans captured between 1550 and 1816 when Algiers, the hub of this traffic, was bombarded into submission by a relative of Pellow.

Go to the Rif or the Atlas and you will find grey-eyed men and women, the descendants of 400 Icelanders abducted by pirates sailing from another slave capital, the Moroccan port of Salé. In their swift xebecs, the "Sallee Rovers" kidnapped thousands of English, mainly from the West Country. Between 1609 and 1625, they took 466 English ships, raised the Islamic flag on Lundy and, in one spectacular raid, dragged 60 men, women and children from St Michael's Mount.

The corsairs were like English football supporters: "ugly onhumayne creatures" wrote one survivor, who "with their heads shaved and their armes almost naked did terrifye me exceedingly".

Attractive European women were sent to the sultan's harem, and the strongest men to breeding farms to mate with black Senegalese slaves, Ismail believing that mulattos made the most trustworthy workers. One Frenchman was locked up, naked, for six days with a bottle of brandy and four women, a eunuch keeping watch; whenever sexual activity flagged, he ordered a drum serenade.

The Monument of the Four Moors (Italian: Monumento dei Quattro mori) is located in Livorno, Italy. It was completed in 1626 to commemorate the victories of Ferdinand I of Tuscany over the Ottomans.^[1]

It is the most famous monument of Livorno and is located in Piazza Micheli.^[2] Created by Pietro Tacca, the monument took its name from the four bronze statues of "Moorish" slaves that are found at the base of an earlier work consisting of the statue of Ferdinando I and its monumental pedestal.^[2]

In 1617, Cosimo II contracted sculptor Pietro Tacca to create the monument to commemorate his father, Ferdinando I. The completed monument was installed in Livorno in 1626.^[1] It features four bronze statues of enslaved prisoners chained at the base of a statue of Ferdinando I which had been commissioned at an earlier date.^[1] The physical characteristics of three of the statues represent people of the southern Mediterranean coast while the fourth statue has characteristics of a black African.^[1]

Although the four chained prisoners are meant to represent the victories of Ferdinando I over the Ottomans, there may also be a different interpretation due to the presence of the statue with the black African characteristics; Ferdinando II, grandson of Ferdinando I, completed the monument and he may also have been involved in slave trade activities in West Africa in the 1660s, in cooperation with the Genoans.^[1]

The four Moors symbolise the four corners of the world.^[3] Tacca's design of the Moors monument is assumed to have been influenced by three columns in the shape of African men supporting a balcony in Via Carriona in Carrara. The three sculptures are depicted as suffering from the weight they bear supporting the iron structure.^[3]

The monument of the four Moors influenced sculptural design for several decades. A fountain in Marino features four statues of similarly chained prisoners, two of whom possess black African characteristics. The structure was constructed between 1632–1642 to commemorate Marcantonio Colonna's participation in the battle of Lepanto in 1571 which led to the defeat of the Ottomans.^[1]

The monument of the four Moors also influenced Bernini's creation of the Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi). Bernini may have also been influenced by the Marino monument in his design of the Fountain.^[1]

The ostentatious design of the tomb of Doge Giovanni Pesaro, which was built in 1669 in Venice, and is found in Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari close to the Pesaro Altarpiece, was perhaps strongly influenced by Tacca's monument of the four Moors.^[4]