Search results for “slavery”:
“Which Story, What Story, and Whose Story Is Being Told?” Massa’s Gaze: Screenings & Discussions of the Depictions of Slavery in Film & Television (NYC) “12 Years a Slave Fails to Show Resistance”, Guardian “The Horrors 12 Years a Slave Couldn’t Tell”, Aljazeera America “Why I Wouldn’t See 12…
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From The Root: The next time some right-wing commentator (Pat Buchanan, are you listening?) bellows about how white people built America, a tour of New York City could be used to point out how the slave trade (i.e., the labor of enslaved Africans) contributed to the creation of this country’s…
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From SPLC: This Friday, a far-right religious activist who co-authored a repulsive apologia for Southern slavery and argues that women were created to be “dependent and responsive” to men, will speak on sexuality and the Bible at Indiana University, Bloomington. Invited by a campus Christian group, Douglas Wilson’s impending visit…
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See also: Banning the Truth in Alabama Prisons: “Slavery By Another Name” (1)
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Alabama prison officials banned the award-winning book. Will they now stop prisoners from viewing the upcoming PBS documentary based on it, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II? The PBS broadcast on Monday, February 13, comes in the wake of…
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Princss of ProgressivePOC has a new piece up in this excellent series: Recently via my genealogy research, I found my GGGGG-Grandmother Catherine Little. Catherine was born in 1788 in New Jersey. It is unknown at this time whether Catherine was born free or enslaved. There are clues that lead to…
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From the Antislavery Literature Project: The goal of the Antislavery Literature Project is to increase public access to a body of literature crucial to understanding African American experience, US and hemispheric histories of slavery, and early human rights philosophies. These multilingual collections contribute to an educational consciousness of the role…
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From NYT: Mark Melvin, who is serving a life sentence at Kilby [Correctional Facility in Alabama], filed suit in federal court against the prison’s officials and the state commissioner of corrections, claiming they have unjustly kept a book out of his hands. […] Last September, [Melvin’s lawyer, Bryan Stevenson,] sent…
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