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The murder of James Byrd 1998
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Una Marson, the Jamaican poet, editor and journalist added a vital feminist perspective to the male-dominated black internationalist movement
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Songs of Our Native Daughters shines new light on African-American women’s stories of struggle, resistance, and hope. Pulling from and inspired by 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century sources, including slave narratives and early minstrelsy
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Paul Robeson at the Marine Cooks & Stewards Union Convention in San Francisco on May 3, 1951.
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‘Whitey is the Mother Of Violence’: Uptight 1968
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ADOS explained by its creator.
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Marlon James’s 2019 Fantasy Trilogy
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‘Africa: a Voyage of discovery’ 1984. Check out this thirty year old, eight part documentary series presented by Basil Davidson.
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The Great Blues Singer Gladys Bentley Broke All the Rules
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‘Black wall street’ and the Tulsa massacre. Where are the bodies?
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