March 2012
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Inside the Nelson Mandela digital archive →
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Young, black and unemployed: the tragedy of the... →
Nearly half Britain’s young black people are jobless. We’ve created an inequality timebomb
Mar 11th
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Slavery in Nova Scotia
Wikipedia lies, as does the memory people turn into history.  Case in point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Nova_Scotians This article starts with the following: “Black Nova Scotians are people of African American descent whose ancestors fled Colonial America as slaves or freemen to settle in Nova Scotia, Canada during the 18th and 19th centuries.” What it doesn’t tell you...
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AFRICAN BALLET IN ROME →
AFRICAN BALLET IN ROME
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February 2012
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1 in 12 US Marriages Are Interracial →
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The Geography of Slavery in Virginia →
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Brazil to Reduce Military Presence in Haiti  →
lati-negros: considering current events, this worries me.
Feb 3rd
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Vintage Black Photos: In Rediscovered Letter From... →
vintageblack2: “To My Old Master” Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for…
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January 2012
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"Giving a Face to Black Queer Identity" (via... →
dirtylibrarianthoughts: A wonderful piece on Zanele Muholi at hyperallergic. In talking about queer photography and queer artists, names that come up tend to be overwhelmingly white and from the U.S. or Europe. Considering the amount of queer photographers out there in the world, all of whom may or may not be working with specifically queer issues, it is great that Muholi’s work, which focuses...
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Jamaica to become a republic, prime minister... →
Portia Simpson Miller seeks to loosen ties with Britain as drift towards republicanism across Caribbean gathers pace
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Omar Ibn Said →
Omar ibn Said (1770–1864) was born in present-day Senegal in Futa Tooro. He was an Islamic scholar. In 1807, he was captured during a military conflict, enslaved and taken across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States. Omar ibn Said is widely known for fourteen manuscripts that he wrote in Arabic. Out of all of his Arabic manuscripts, he is best known for his autobiographical essay written in...
Jan 1st
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WW2 - French African POW's
heartzilla: “During the western campaign, the Wehrmacht (unified armed forces of Nazi Germany) murdered several thousand black African POW’s from the French Army.  German Officers ordering or tolerating the killings felt authorized by the traditional stigmatization of black men in Arms. “ The footage below was used in war propaganda films throughout Germany and occupied France. 
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Thomas Jefferson's Virginia estate Monticello... →
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Black in Korea: Jasmine Taiwo is Teaching in... →
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