Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook (redirected fromAfrocentrist) Medical Af·ro·cen·tric (ăf′rō-sĕn′trĭk) adj. Centered or focused on Africa or African peoples, especially in relation to historical or cultural influence:"a string of small black-owned...
Last month, the Afro-American issued a centennial edition that ran to 96 pages. It is a fascinating historical document, containing reproductions of full pages from the paper dating back as far as 1912. The issue from Dec. 21 of that year, for example, includes stories about racial discrimin...
Racial segregation, the historical role of the Black Church, and African American social conformity reinforce Christianity’s powerful hold on black communities. Indeed, I was recently told that I’d been deemed an unsuitable culmination speaker for a bourgie philanthropic organization’s young women ...
historical and socio-political background, I focus on a close reading of texts by Afro-Argentine poets Mateo Elejalde, Horacio Mendiz谩bal, and Miguel Noguera in combination with newspaper editorial notes and by African American intellectuals David Walker and Henry Highland Garnet as well as poets ...
Bibliography: Asante, Molefi Kete. Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Portrait. University of Sankore Press, 2007. —. Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait. Polity, 2009. Bacon, Jacqueline. Freedom 's Journal: The First African-American Newspaper. Lexington Books, 2007. Bradley, Michael. Icem...
How to find your ancestors in historical newspaper articles Breaking through brick walls to learn more about your African American ancestors Sampson Luster Wead, center facing to the right, at the Reed’s Ice Cream Shop boycott The tall dude to the right of the protest sign is Sampson Luster...
and I’ve forgotten most of the arguments. I’m just convinced my ideas are more fundamentally beneficial to the general public and to the historical truths of the game. Our conversations are often like a friendly game of chess; we move pieces around, discussing and debating our opinions, bu...
16 This is not surprising; until very recently, the contributions of Afrodescendant Latin American artists to their societies have been generally understudied (de la Fuente 2018; Moore 2018). Only a few scholars have analyzed Bola de Nieve’s music, implicating him in divergent interpretations of...
After providing a historical and socio-political background, I focus on a close reading of texts by Afro-Argentine poets Mateo Elejalde, Horacio Mendizabal, and Miguel Noguera in combination with newspaper editorial notes and by African American intellectuals David Walker and Henry Highland Garnet as...