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This second volume of Blacks in Portraits was always part of the plan, and here it is. There were so many questions behind this one. Will it be as successful as the first? What are the reader's expectations? Is this book meeting the goals that I had with the first?
My intention, still, is to inspire you to learn something about these fantastic figures. This time, I collaborated with my friend Delvin Kariuki. It was a month-long celebration of how...
2) The Blacks
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An English translation of Genet's symbolic drama which was first performed in Paris in 1959.
3) We Blacks
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Frank Talk with Biko: We Blacks. A collection of publicly available writings, speeches and interviews by Steve Bantu Biko in the seminal time of the Black Consciousness Movement in the 1970s. These are collated into audio to give Biko a voice in these modern times that so desperately needs to listen to him. Biko's words are not only prophetic but also show the importance of deep socio-philosophical thought that is rooted in actual praxis to solve...
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Blake is perfect. Well, at least he looks that way. His hair is thick. His features are nice. Everyone loves him, and to Blake's frustration, everyone falls in love with him, or at least they say they do.
Then something happens. Blake blacks out. In those most crucial of intimate moments, Blake blacks out.
After 101 horrible dates, Blake gets an offer from a man who swears he can handle him. But can sexy Jerome overlook what Blake considers to be...
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2000 Blacks probes the complexity of economic and politically motivated migration from Africa, which has been referred to as "African Brain Drain." In the first sequence of poems, Ajibola Tolase explores Africa's history and encounters with the Western world, providing poetic insight into the economic instability precipitated by the transatlantic slave trade and exploitation of mineral resources. Moving inward, the second sequence plumbs the poet's...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2015.
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Scholars and critics probe the history and psychology of victimization shared between Blacks and Jews and their exploitation by the media. The faultline between Blacks and Jews is one of the most visible symbols of America's racial divide. This film, made collaboratively by Jewish and Black filmmakers, goes behind the headlines and the rhetoric to try to heal the misunderstanding and mistrust. Blacks & Jews was acclaimed at the Sundance Film Festival...
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Contributions in Afro-American and African studies volume no. 23
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Greenwood Press
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1976
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English
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Yale Western Americana volume 29
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Yale University Press
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1977
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English
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"Blacks can be a nasty lot. We are capable of mass murder. Think of Idi Amin, Mobutu Sese Seko, vicious apartheid Bantustan leaders or of toyi-toying comrades with their fiery necklaces. Just last year, here in South Africa, we killed more than sixty black Africans in an anti-black rage others call xenophobia. Think about those blacks who helped whites catch members of their own race into slavery. We blacks often brutally oppress our own. We betray...
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After World War I, many African Americans found a welcoming home in Paris while the fight for civil rights continued in the United States. African American soldiers, writers, performers, and activists influenced French society. Blacks in Paris: African American Culture in Europe explores the legacy of African Americans in Paris. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division...
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Caught up in a troubled world with nowhere else to go. Chase Walker is, known for his abilities throughout the streets. But in fear of his life and what's to come he is made to move. While learning of the past and its secrets, with help from others. Chase is now battling with his past to create a change in hopes of a new beginning.
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Blacks in the Adirondacks: A History tells the story of the many African Americans who settled in or passed through this rural, mountainous region of northeastern New York State. In the area for a variety of reasons, some were lifetime residents, while others were there for a few years or months-as summer employees, tuberculosis patients, or in connection with full- or part-time occupations in railroading, the performing arts, and baseball. From blacks...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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Aboliçao is a startling look at the racial situation of Black Brazilians in contemporary Brazil. The director asks the following question to Black Brazilians from diverse walks of life --musicians, politicians, activists, people in government, ambassadors, social workers, sport stars, actors, street kids, farmers, etc. -- "We are celebrating 100 years since the abolition of slavery in Brazil, what does the abolition of slavery mean to you?"
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James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into black commitment to education, the peculiar significance of Tuskegee Institute, and the conflicting goals of various philanthropic groups, among other matters. Initially, ex-slaves attempted to create an educational...
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A psychological concept training individuals to deal with common everyday problems. This volume presents a structured approach that teaches, step-by-step, how to identify a specific problem, how to then consider various alternative courses of action and how to follow through to solve the problem at hand.
Developed by the author, Dr. James R. Baugh, a leading clinical psychologist and lecturer, the book places special emphasis on individual responsibility...
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