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European Racism : Nigger, are you crazy? Hoe vernietig je de zwarte identiteit? – NRC Handelsblad
Nigger, are you crazy? Hoe vernietig je de zwarte identiteit? – NRC Handelsblad van vrijdag 31 juli 2015 — Amerika, vooral blank Amerika, leefde een paar jaar in een droom. Een nieuwe tijd was aangebroken, waarin de oude problematische rassenverhoudingen er niet meer toe deden. Het aantreden van Barack Obama, de eerste zwarte president, onderstreepte […]
Ida B. Wells: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com
Ida B. Wells-Barnett would have turned 153 on July 16. She was a writer and editor, a suffragist and an early leader in the civil rights movement.“We salute Ida B. Wells with a Doodle that commemorates her journalistic mettle and her unequivocal commitment to the advancement of civil liberties,” Google says.Wells-Barnett is also known for […]
“The Most Important Journalist You’ve Never Heard Of”: Remembering William Worthy 1921-2014 | Democracy Now!
During the height of the Cold War, Worthy defied the U.S. government by reporting from the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, Iran, North Vietnam and Algeria. He also worked closely with many African-American leaders, including A. Philip Randolph and Malcolm X. In the late 1950s, the State Department refused to renew his passport after he returned […]
The Proletarian Writer | George Orwell Novels
Hawkins: Still, I think one must admit that the cult of proletarian literature — whether the theory is right or not — has had some effect. Look at writers like James Hanley, for instance, or Jack Hilton, or Jack Common. They have something new to say – something at any rate that could not quite […]
Happy Birthday to One of History’s Greatest Haters, William Hazlitt
Instead of patriots and friends of freedom, I see nothing but the tyrant and the slave, the people linked with kings to rivet on the chains of despotism and superstition. I see folly join with knavery, and together make up public spirit and public opinions. I see the insolent Tory, the blind Reformer, the coward […]
Tongues Untied – Wikipedia
The film blends documentary footage with personal account and fiction in an attempt to depict the specificity of black gay identity. The “silence” referred to throughout the film is that of black gay men, who are unable to express themselves because of the prejudices of white and black heterosexual society, as well as the white […]
EXCLUSIVE: Queens school barred student reports on ‘bad’ Malcolm X, parents say – NY Daily News
Teachers at Public School 201 in Flushing told fourth-graders last week that the controversial activist was “violent” and “bad.” They also refused to let the kids write about the assassinated icon for Black History Month.Parent Cleatress Brown, 47, of Flushing complained to Principal Rebecca Lozada on Friday after a teacher forbade her fourth-grade son from […]
What Ralph Ellison Can Teach Us about Trayvon Martin – The Feminist Wire | The Feminist Wire
By Dennis Tyler Jr.In light of the recent decision by the school board of education in Randolph County, North Carolina, to ban Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man from their libraries—partly because of a parent’s complaint that the book is not age-appropriate material for teenagers and partly because one board member claimed he could not “find any […]
County board bans ‘Invisible Man’ from school libraries | Courier Tribune, Asheboro
The action stems from a Randleman High School parent’s complaint about the book. Committees at both the school and district levels recommended it not be removed.Voting in favor of the ban were Board Chair Tommy McDonald and members Tracy Boyles, Gary Cook, Matthew Lambeth and Gary Mason. Voting against the action were Board Vice Chair […]
Ida B. Wells
The murder of her friend drove Wells to research and document lynchings and their causes. She began investigative journalism, looking at the charges given for the murders. She officially started her anti-lynching campaign. She spoke on the issue at various black women’s clubs, and raised more than $500 to investigate lynchings and publish her results. […]
Langston Hughes showed me what it meant to be a black writer | Gary Younge | Comment is free | The Guardian
The whole point of having a black columnist, he thought, was to write about black issues. I had other ideas. I had no problem writing about race. It’s an important subject that deserves scrutiny to which I’ve given considerable thought and about which I’ve done a considerable amount of research. I have no problem being […]
When Islamic atheism thrived | Amira Nowaira
Freethinking is perhaps not one of the strongest suits of modern Islam. For one thing, the list of books that have been banned for challenging prevalent religious orthodoxies and sensibilities during the past hundred years is disconcertingly long.Modern Islamic clerics and scholars in various Muslim countries are often highly selective of which part of the […]
The mixed race bastards of our colony {reading notes} » onlineJournal | The Liberator Magazine
Like the aforementioned works, co-authors Sibo Kanobana and Kathleen Ghequière aim to provide a free space for mostly unknown testimonies of two dozen mixed-race Congolese.From Kano: “They were all people born during colonization from one black and one white parent. Some of them grew up in their families but most of them weren’t recognized by […]
Pearl S. Buck – Wikipedia
Many contemporary reviewers were positive, and praised her “beautiful prose,” even though her “style is apt to degenerate into overrepetition and confusion.”[18] Robert Benchley wrote a parody of “The Good Earth” that focused on just these qualities, to excellent effect. Peter Conn, in his biography of Buck, argues that despite the accolades awarded to her, […]
African-American history books found in school dumpster – Fox 2 News Headlines
HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (WJBK) – Emotions boiled over in Highland Park on Tuesday night after residents discovered what they describe as thousands of first edition African-American history books in a dumpster of a school. “A mistake was made by the workmen,” said Donald Weatherspoon, the school district’s emergency manager. He said throwing the books in […]
OpEdNews – Article: Orwell Revisited: Privacy in the Age of Surveillance
As Orwell explains: The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All […]
Professor Martin Bernal, ‘Black Athena’ author, dies at 76 | Cornell Chronicle
Martin Gardiner Bernal, professor emeritus of government and Near Eastern studies at Cornell and author of the widely read and debated “Black Athena” books on classical civilization, died June 9 in Cambridge, England. He was 76. Bernal taught at Cornell from 1972 until his retirement in 2001. He began as an associate professor in the […]
Fatima and Ahmed’s Son: Albert Camus and the Liberal Dilemma
Fatima and Ahmed’s Son: Albert Camus and the Liberal Dilemma – It has always been a curiosity, then, why Camus had such a difficult time understanding the desire of the Algerians to create a meaning to their lives that required overthrowing the French colonialists. His understanding that human freedom was perhaps the greatest quality humanity […]
A Nice Cup of Tea | George Orwell Novels
Saturday Essay, Evening Standard, 12 January 1946 A Nice Cup of Tea (1946) by George OrwellIf you look up ‘tea’ in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on several […]
Knowing Shakespeare fiddled his taxes tells us nothing. And don’t say it makes him ‘human’ – Comment – Voices – The Independent
I’m trying to decide if I give a damn. About Shakespeare being a filthy-rich capitalist, a tax-evader, a grain-hoarder who waited for a famine and then sold wheat to the starving of Stratford at hugely inflated prices, a person who fiddled his expenses and didn’t separate his garbage, a user of private medicine who swore […]
Lorraine Hansberry – Wikipedia
Lorraine Hansberry was the youngest of four children of Carl Augustus Hansberry, a successful real-estate broker, and Nannie Louise Perry who was a school teacher. In 1938, her father bought a house in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago,[3] violating a restrictive covenant and incurring the wrath of many neighbors. The […]
The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom by Candida Moss
In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of culture warriors. According to cherished church tradition and […]
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин, tr. Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin; IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr sʲɪˈrɡʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn] ( listen); 6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799 – 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era[1] who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet[2][3][4][5] and the founder of modern Russian literature.[6][7] Pushkin was born into the Russian nobility in Moscow. A remarkable fact about his ancestry is that one great-grandfather of his – Abram Gannibal – was […]
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