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What Nelson Mandela Lost | The New York Times
The South African freedom fighter’s letters from prison remind us that the separation of families is the ultimate expression of state power.
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How 75 Nigerians who revolted against slavery chose to drown in the U.S | Pulse.ng
The Igbo Landing refers to the mass suicide of Igbo slaves in 1803 who chose to die than live a life of slavery.
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The Case for Reparations | The Atlantic (2014)
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Is Dead at 81; Fought Apartheid | The New York Times
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, whose hallowed place in the pantheon of South Africa’s liberators was eroded by scandal over corruption, kidnapping, murder and the implosion of her fabled marriage to Nelson Mandela, died early Monday in Johannesburg. She was 81.
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Jack Johnson descendant seeking posthumous pardon for racially motivated ‘immorality’ conviction | Chicago Tribune
In Jim Crow America, it’s no wonder that Jack Johnson was the most despised African-American of his generation.
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How the black radical female artists of the ’60s and ’70s made art that speaks to today’s politics | Los Angeles Times
All of it points to the unique issues black women artists faced (and continue to face) as women and artists in a society in which race plays a defining role.
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Patrice Lumumba: the most important assassination of the 20th century | The Guardian (2011)
The US-sponsored plot to kill Patrice Lumumba, the hero of Congolese independence, took place 50 years ago today.
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Carmen de Lavallade is 86 and still the best dancer in the room | The Washington Post
De Lavallade’s ability to express psychological meaning through her body, to disappear inside the choreography and mold herself to wildly different artistic styles, has been her life’s work.
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Winnie Mandela the movie: ‘She was volatile and uncontrollable, and that was punished’ | The Guardian
An award-winning documentary demystifies the image of the activist as ‘sinner’ to Nelson the saint, as part of a wave of films in African cinema breaking with the status quo on gender, race and politics
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