<p>Very cool stuff, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7670788.stm" target="_blank">here</a>:</p> <p class="quote">"I stand before you tonight as an African-American," Mr Powell said. "Many people have said to me you became secretary of state of the USA, is it still necessary to say that you are an African-American or that you are black, and I say, yes, so that we can remind our children. It took a lot of people struggling to bring me to this point in history. I didn't just drop out of the sky, people came from my continent in chains. A lot of wrongs had been done to Africa by Western powers faced with "an iron curtain and a bamboo curtain", he said in an apparent reference to the USSR and communist China.</p> colin powell concert appearance, african american music advocacy, rebuilding africa the-feed 0 2008-10-15T13:26:39-04:00 <p>George W. Bush's former Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared on stage with <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendid=233862523" target="_blank">Olu Maintain</a> at the Africa Rising Festival in the Royal Albert Hall in London.</p> 1 2375 colin-powell-on-stage 2008-10-15T13:26:44-04:00 true false false false false #<Image:0x2adde485c450> 2008-10-15T13:26:44-04:00 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7670788.stm 371 175