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*Durham, NC – Saturday, October 8, Sharon Ewell Foster, acclaimed author of the new fact-based novel, The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part One: The Witnesses (Howard/Simon & Schuster), took her Nat Turner Truth Tour to Word of Life Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles in hopes of making contact with some important figures in Hollywood. Protests by the [...]
*When you think of slavery in the Americas, I bet you assume that more Africans were brought to the U.S. than anywhere else in this hemisphere. But truth be told, only a tiny fraction were transported to this soil, with ten times as many being taken to Brazil, and even twice as many to Cuba. [...]
*You’ve seen “Black in America.” Well now get ready for another incredible journey with “Black in Latin America” to be hosted by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The four-part series will uncover the rich African history of Black Latin American people who share a dark past of enslavement, colonialism and oppression. Not to be confused [...]
*Harvard’s school paper is reporting that a club in Boston shut down a party for black graduate students and alumni from both Harvard and Yale Saturday night after management said the event attracted “local gang bangers” and potentially “the wrong crowd.” Per the Harvard Crimson… Michael Beal ’06, a second-year student at Harvard Business School [...]
“This book is about more than the arrest of one man. It is abut how we need to examine our criminal justice system to ensure that fairness, not power, is the currency of our system. When we move from a presumption of innocence to a presumption of guilt, we diminish our sense of community and [...]
*This year at McDonald’s 365Black Awards, esteemed journalist and CNN contributor Roland Martin hosted the red carpet and captured some pretty candid and entertaining interviews from this year’s honorees including Holly Robinson Peete, Professor Henry Louis Gates, actress Victoria Rowell, radio host Tom Joyner and activist Al Sharpton. This past Friday, McDonald’s honored Professor Henry [...]
*An independent review of the confrontation between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and the police sergeant who ended up carting him away in handcuffs could have ended more calmly had both taken advantage of opportunities to “ratchet down” the situation. The review said “misunderstandings and failed communications” and a “certain degree of fear” each man [...]
*The esteemed Harvard University professor and PBS program producer Henry Louis Gates has generated a major national debate around the issue of reparations for African Americans because of the nearly 250 years of slavery endured by their ancestors. In his recent (April 22, 2010) op-ed piece in the New York Times, Gates appears to make [...]
*Professor Skip Gates has long attempted to bring light to the truth of slavery. And that truth is that Africans are the reason that slavery exists in the first place. But, then he brings up reparations as a fuzzy issue. All because “elite Africans” sold other Africans into slavery. Well, the other part of this argument [...]
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