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Happy Marcus Garvey Day!!!
Published on 17 Aug 2007 at 8:27 pm.
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For over a decade, people around the world have celebrated Garvey Day a Holiday dedicated to the great intellectual, activist and freedom fighter: Marcus Mosiah Garvey. The celebration started back in 1993, when Terry Brown, in collaboration with the African Culture Restoration Association, gathered 150 supporters to celebrate the life and contributions of Marcus Garvey […]
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Blackademics Annual Review
Published on 15 Aug 2007 at 12:50 am.
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Filed under positivity, academia, women's issues/feminism, black culture, sexuality, interviews, film, history, racial rhetoric, technology.
One year ago today, we published the first Blackademics Interview with John Hope Franklin. Since then, on the 15th of every month we’ve published interviews with some of the world’s most distinguised scholars, artists and activists. On our one year anniversary, I thought it would be nice put together a little tribute to celebrate one […]
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Join the Performance: National Day of Panhandling for Reparations
Published on 3 Aug 2007 at 10:13 pm.
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Filed under radical politics, art, history, collective action, theatre.
No commentary from me, just throwing this out to ya’ll. Tell me what you think. Do you plan to get involved? Let me know what’s up.
from Artist, Author and Speak Damali Ayo’s site:
October 10, 2007
We are taking it to the streets.
Join the First Annual National Day of Panhandling for Reparations
OCTOBER 10, 2007. […]
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WW2’s Buffalo Soldiers, a Spike Lee joint
Published on 8 Jul 2007 at 11:20 am.
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Director Spike Lee is working on a new film that will reveal an untold story of Black leadership and valour during World War 2. The film is about the U.S. Army’s all-black 92nd “Buffalo Soldier” Division, which defended Italy from Nazi occupation in the 1940s. Based on the novel, Miracle at St. Anna by James […]
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United States of Africa? The Jury is Still Out.
Published on 4 Jul 2007 at 11:45 am.
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Filed under news/politics, positivity, history, collective action, Africa.
Freelon here, reporting live from Accra, Ghana on the final day of the 2007 African Union Summit! We started the week very excited about the proceedings taking place here. The city is tight with security, all the politicians have been making their rounds, giving town hall lectures and making appearances. But at the conclusion of […]
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Apartheid Israel?, Speaking Up, Out and About: A Call to Action for Black Folks?
Published on 4 Jun 2007 at 6:23 pm.
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Filed under racism, news/politics, inter-minority relations, diaspora, radical politics, history, collective action.
This is a bit long so here are my early apologies…
June 2007 marks the 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. May 15th, 2007 marks the 59th anniversary of the Nakba (”the catastrophe”) which saw the mass deportation of a million Palestinians […]
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Malcolm X at 82
Published on 19 May 2007 at 6:50 pm.
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Today, Malcolm X would have been the 82 years old. Let us honor him by remembering his commitment to the Black community. I have attached a link to one of Malcolm’s speeches, from a website of his speeches and papers: www.brothermalcolm.net
What happened to the Malcolm X’s of the world? So many of our courageous freedom […]
Whoa.
Published on 5 Apr 2007 at 8:27 pm.
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Before a few minutes ago, I suppose I lazily held the belief that creative anachronism was, well, a fairly lily-white pastime (and coming from a guy who loves indie rock music, that’s saying a lot). Then I surfed over to the New York Times website and saw this front and center on the main page:
Colonial […]
How do we speak about Zimbabwe?
Published on 2 Apr 2007 at 6:27 am.
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Filed under news/politics, diaspora, radical politics, history, collective action.
****Above is a picture from I took at the Human Rights Day March in Johannesburg on March 21, 2007.****
EDIT: on april 3rd, 2007, in johannesburg, south africa there was a zimbabwe solidarity march to the zimbabwean consulate. check my photos here.
Zimbabwe has made headlines recently following the of Zimbabwean police’s killing of Gift Tandere, […]
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Bicentennial of the Abolition of (English) Slave Trade
Published on 26 Mar 2007 at 1:52 pm.
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Filed under news/politics, ignorance, history.
Today marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. This is a very important historical event, which is being commemorated all around the world. You may have noticed ceremonies going on in your community. There are bicentenary events going on from South Africa and New York to Bristol and India. Yesterday in […]
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