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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 […]
Malcolm X Matters: Icon’s Words Still Ring True | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
Malcolm didn’t tiptoe around diagnosing the illness of white supremacy or pointing out its symptoms in the form of religious terrorism and police brutality. He boldly declared that systemic racism is not baseless conjecture; rather, it is a deeply embedded statement of fact that provides the framework for the United States of America. Malcolm X […]
H.G. Wells: None so detestable as the god of war | Stop NATO…Opposition to global militarism
“No,” said Mr. Britling. “It is the theologians who must answer that. They have been extravagant about God. They have had silly absolute ideas – that He is all powerful. That He’s omni-everything. But the common sense of men knows better. Every real religious thought denies it. After all, the real God of the Christians […]
Einstein: The Negro Question (1946) | On Being
The ancient Greeks also had slaves. They were not Negroes but white men who had been taken captive in war. There could be no talk of racial differences. And yet Aristotle, one of the great Greek philosophers, declared slaves inferior beings who were justly subdued and deprived of their liberty. It is clear that he […]
Dr. Yosef A.A. ben-Jochannan, a.k.a. Dr. Ben joins the ancestors | New York Amsterdam News: The new Black view
After being bed-ridden and placed in a specialized care unit at the Bay Park Nursing Home for the past several weeks, legendary Kemetaphysician Dr. Yosef A.A. ben-Jochannan, a.k.a. Dr. Ben, transitioned on to the ancestral realm Thursday (March 19) at approximately 3:30 a.m. Those close to him said he had stopped eating and drinking several […]
The 1969 Science Fiction Novel Which Eerily Predicted Today – disinformation
Random acts of violence by crazy individuals, often taking place at schools, plague society in Stand on Zanzibar. The other major source of instability and violence comes from terrorists, who are now a major threat to U.S. interests, and even manage to attack buildings within the United States. Prices have increased sixfold between 1960 and […]
A Worker Reads History by Bertolt Brecht
Who built Thebes of the 7 gates ? In the books you will read the names of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock ? And Babylon, many times demolished, Who raised it up so many times ? In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live ? Where, the […]
Daniel Handler’s Offensive National Book Award Jokes Prove Industry Has A Long Way To Go
His comments marred the presentation of the Young People’s Literature Award to a celebrated black author, Jacqueline Woodson, for her book Brown Girl Dreaming. The book explores, through evocative free verse, Woodson’s childhood in South Carolina and New York in the ’60s and ’70s. She grapples with Jim Crow, the effects of the Civil Rights […]
Gilberto Freyre – Wikipedia
Gilberto de Mello Freyre March 15, 1900 – July 18, 1987 was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman, born in Recife, Northeast Brazil. He is commonly associated with other great Brazilian cultural interpreters of the first half of the 20th century, such as Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Caio Prado Júnior. […]
“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 […]
Pablo Neruda: A Poet Possibly Poisoned By A CIA Agent Working For Pinochet
It is certain that Allende died during the coup staged by Pinochet’s forces. What remains unclear, however, is how. With the presidential palace La Moneda surrounded by Pinochet’s forces, Allende either committed suicide — as the official account of his death states — or was assassinated on Sept. 11, 1973.As with Allende, there is a […]
Message from Leonard Peltier 08/28/2014… – Friends of Peltier
The Constitution of the United states was a copy of Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy Law. Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin all wrote down as to where they got the ideas and inspiration from. The main premise of the constitution being, you have the freedom to do anything you want as long as you don’t […]
Ferguson and Parallel Universes | The Nation
I expected a reasonable discussion in which Bohannon, a veteran broadcaster, would take a position to the right of one I had taken in this space on the topic of Ferguson. What I got instead was some perspective on the challenges of having such a conversation across race and political divides at moments like this, […]
Gaza: el genocidio y sus sinrazones – Por: Atilio Borón
En medio del espanto y del baño de sangre que inunda Gaza se oye una voz, metálica, glacial. Pronuncia un soliloquio similar al que en su obra Enrique VI William Shakespeare puso en boca de Ricardo, un ser deforme, monstruoso, pero aguijoneado por una ambición ilimitada y orgulloso de su villanía: “Soy el espíritu del […]
Holocausto palestino en Gaza › Cuba › Granma – Órgano oficial del PCC
Las escribo con rapidez solo para dejar constancia de lo que se requiere meditar profundamente.Pienso que una nueva y repugnante forma de fascismo está surgiendo con notable fuerza en este momento de la historia humana, en el que más de siete mil millones de habitantes se esfuerzan por la propia supervivencia.Ninguna de estas circunstancias tiene […]
Nine Lives of a Black Panther: A Story of Survival | Afro
The Declaration of Independence states that “All men are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” namely, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” The sacrosanct document further stipulates that when people are denied those rights by the government, “it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such […]
BBC News – Ta-Nehisi Coates starts a new reparations debate
Coates, perhaps because of his reputation as a talented, thoughtful essayist and thanks to his platform in and determined promotion by the Atlantic, has once again given the topic a serious airing for the first time in more than a decade – and the praise for his essay from the left has been near universal.Slate’s […]
Lisa Pease: The Mysterious Death of a UN Hero | Consortiumnews
While a few authors have looked into and written about the strange facts of the crash in the years since the last official inquiry in 1962, none did a more thorough reinvestigation than Dr. Susan Williams, a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London, whose book Who Killed Hammarskjöld? […]
Tongues Untied DVD trailer
Available for the first time on home DVD on March 18th Tongues Untied shares fierce examples of homophobia and racism: the man refused entry to a gay bar because of his color; the college student left bleeding on the sidewalk after a gay-bashing; the loneliness and isolation of the drag queen. Yet they also affirm […]
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 […]
#RIP: Stuart McPhail Hall (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014)
Stuart Hall was born in Kingston, Jamaica, into a middle-class Jamaican family of Indian, African and British descent.[5] In Jamaica he attended Jamaica College, receiving an education modelled after the British school system.[6] In an interview Hall describes himself as a “bright, promising scholar” in these years and his formal education as “a very ‘classical’ […]
Fabrice Monteiro | Marron, A Beautiful Nightmare on Shackles & Slavery | Another Africa
Fabrice Monteiro | The first time I encountered images of slavery, I was about 9 years old. It was in a comic strip. I was shocked by the physical resemblance in those images to the people that surrounding me. It was only later, when I was older that my father told me about our family’s […]
Amiri Baraka and the black power movement deserve more credit | Daniel Matlin | Comment is free | theguardian.com
By 1968 he was Imamu Amiri Baraka, one of the most prominent black power leaders in the United States, whose \”Swahilized\” name was intended to signal a complete rejection of white culture. And from 1975, he was Chairman Amiri Baraka, this time the leader of the Revolutionary Communist League, a Maoist sect that rejected racial […]
Black Scholars: Explaining Your Work May Mean Fighting For It | Vitae
Of course, race isn’t the only predictor of whether your research ideas will receive collegial support. But it’s a factor. Just consider the titles of some of the books that provide advice to black academics. There’s The Black Academic’s Guide to Winning Tenure—Without Losing Your Soul, which gives advice on negotiating the convergence of power […]
Remembering Mandela – Vijay Prashad – Vikalp
The most scandalous appropriation of Mandela comes from the Right. There is something unseemly about this seizure given that its main protagonists – the conservatives of Britain and their settler colonial allies the conservatives of the US, Canada and Australia – continued to ally with apartheid South Africa and consider Nelson Mandela as a terrorist […]
Cheikh Anta Diop – Wikipedia
One of Diop’s most controversial issues centers on the definition of who is a true Black person. Diop insisted on a broad interpretation similar to that used in classifying European populations as white. He accused his critics of having used the narrowest possible definition of “Blacks” in order to differentiate various African groups such as […]
The Condition of Essex Hemphill – David Bergman – Lodestar Quarterly
In speaking about a condition of intellectual and imaginative freedom, I do not mean that Hemphill desired art for art s sake, a fantasy world aesthetically removed from the real one, although he clearly understood fantasy s seductive power. His remarkable essay To Be Real about Jennie Livingston s 1990 DOCUMENTary Paris Is Burning shows […]
Black People: Popular Enough to Rip Off, Not Popular Enough for Everything Else | Clutch Magazine
I could believe this if it weren’t for the fact that right now pop music is amuck with various “swagger jackers” appropriating the most outré variations of black culture basically, all the parts you can’t take to church on Sunday, repacking it poorly with lazy facsimiles then mass producing it for the culturally and […]
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