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Afrofurist cyber monks transforming cyber landscapes – DROPSTARS | OpenSea
Afrofurist cyber monks transforming cyber landscapes — Read on opensea.io/assets/matic/0x2690Ee580d7Ba1F5f39b791568e00cCc6c2Cb60b/924
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Les Filles de Illighadad – World Music Institute
Les Filles de Illighadad – World Music Institute — Read on www.worldmusicinstitute.org/lesfillesdeillighadad/
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As If I was Carrying a Gun: Art and Surveillance in 1960s Watts | KCET
An arts movement emerged in ‘60s Watts. In response, federal and local law enforcement enacted counterinsurgency programs that infiltrated and co-opted Black arts and culture institutions and surveilled and targeted activists, artists and community member — Read on www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/as-if-i-was-carrying-a-gun-art-and-surveillance-in-1960s-watts
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The West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young | South African History Online
The first Kroomen to be employed by the British Navy in Simon’s Town arrived on the HMS Melville in 1838. [i] Their date of arrival was telling, having coincided with enslaved people at the Cape experiencing their first breath of freedom. At this time there were two distinct groups of people settled at Sierra Leone.…
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AFRICOM Watch Bulletin #26 — The Black Alliance for Peace
Revolutionary Africans must not only stand with the Palestinian struggle against settler colonialism but also understand that Zionism itself has played and continues to work against African liberation. Zionist Israel gave political, economic, and military support to the racist apartheid regime in Azania/South Africa to further the oppression and exploitation of African people. Also, Jewish…
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‘Enciclopédia Negra’: New ‘Black Encyclopedia’ presents more than 500 black Brazilian personalities, known and unknown, from different times in …
Note from BBT: I’ve mentioned many times how it was Africana: The Encyclopedia of African and African-American History that led me to a now two … ‘Enciclopédia Negra’: New ‘Black Encyclopedia’ presents more than 500 black Brazilian personalities, known and unknown, from different times in …
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In a period of two weeks, three well-known Afro-Brazilian entertainers die from Covid-19; country continues to set record numbers with deadly second …
Note from BBT: As record death tolls from Covid-19 continue to rise making Brazil the global epicentre of the pandemic, in a period of two weeks, … In a period of two weeks, three well-known Afro-Brazilian entertainers die from Covid-19; country continues to set record numbers with deadly second …
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A Brief History of the Lumpen, the Black Panthers’ Revolutionary Funk Band | KQED
When the Black Panthers needed a funk band to help galvanize the masses, the Lumpen didn’t miss a beat. — Read on www.kqed.org/arts/13851531/a-brief-history-of-the-lumpen-the-black-panthers-revolutionary-funk-band