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The Wait Is Over! Watch The First Trailer For Steve McQueen’s ’12 Years A...
The R-rated slave narrative, McQueen’s 3rd feature, boasts a rather impressive cast of actors, including: Chiwetel Ejiofor (as Solomon Northup, the star of the film and whose story it tells), Michael...
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Black Folks, It’s Time To Stop Taking Care Of White People | Shadow and Act
Today, a white woman referred to me as “Honey” on my Facebook wall, before she went into a diatribe about what I need to do. She was not a “real” friend. So, I looked on her Facebook wall. She had a...
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Somebody “Fixin’ to be Killed” – A review of We Will Shoot Back: Armed...
Most of us have heard about the legendary Deacons for Defense. Through exhaustive research and interviews, Umoja introduced us to many other unsung heroes and sheroes (although not surprising the...
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Black Women who were Lynched in America | Henrietta Vinton Davis’s Weblog
(Note: this post is just a partial list of Black Women who were lynched in America. More research has revealed there are over 150 documented cases of African American women lynched in America. Four...
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Professor Says He Has Solved a Mystery Over a Slave’s Novel – NYTimes.com
In 2002, a novel thought to be the first written by an African-American woman became a best seller, praised for its dramatic depiction of Southern life in the mid-1850s through the observant eyes of a...
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15 Black Uprisings Against European and Arab Oppression They Won’t Teach in...
THE ZANJ REVOLT The largest revolt by enslaved Africans was ignited by the Zanj against Arab slavers. The Zanj or Zinj were the inhabitants of the land along the coast of East Africa. They were traded...
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“Ask A Slave” Web Series Pokes Fun At Americans’ Ignorance, Racism | News One
Slavery and comedy almost never make for good humor, but actress and comedian Azie Mira Dungey nails it in her new web series, “Ask A Slave.” As “Lizzie Mae,” Dungey sits in front of a TV and answers...
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Henry Louis Gates is Wrong about African Involvement in the Slave Trade | Dr....
The recent essay on slavery and reparations in the New York Times (April 23, 2010) caused me to reflect on my previous critiques of several of Gates projects such as Encarta Africana, documentaries,...
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Blackface! – The History of Racist Blackface Stereotypes
The stock characters of blackface minstrelsy have played a significant role in disseminating racist images, attitudes and perceptions worldwide. Every immigrant group was stereotyped on the music hall...
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This Martin Bashir Rant Should Make Sarah Palin Shut Her Mouth For Good...
Martin Bashir suggested Palin should experience how slaves were treated. This is the kind of horrible treatment that slaves were subject to. They were whipped, had salt thrown in their wounds, and...
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