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Five myths about mosques in America
By Edward E. Curtis IV
Curtis is millennium chair of liberal arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is the author of “Muslims in America: A Short History” and the editor of the “Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History.”
Source: Washington Post
Sunday, August 29, 2010; B03
In addition to spawning passionate debates in the [...]
Once you learn how to read, you will be forever free~Frederick Douglass
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Karla FC Holloway is James B.Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Professor Holloway is the author of eight books, including Passed On: African-American Mourning Stories (2002) and BookMarks–Reading in Black and White, A Memoir (2006) completed during a residency in Bellagio, Italy as [...]
If you learn how to read, you will be forever free~Frederick Douglass
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Carole C. Marks is a professor of sociology at the University of Delaware and the coauthor of The Power of Pride: Stylemakers and Rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Robert Stepto’s fields of interest include early African American narratives (Equiano to Douglass and Jacobs), American Renaissance [...]
United Nations A/RES/64/169
General Assembly Distr.: General
19 March 2010
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 69 (b)
09-47197
*0947197*
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/64/439/Add.2 (Part II))]
64/169.
International Year for People of African Descent
The General Assembly, Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 which proclaims that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity [...]
One of the books I read while traveling several weeks ago was Mia Bay’s The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830=1925. Bay’s book, which was written in the earlier part of this decade, is a fascinating study of racial formation and response to racial ideology by black intellectuals and [...]
Marketing communications pioneer and Advertising Hall of Fame inductee Tom Burrell is credited with revolutionizing the image of African Americans in television and changing the face of American advertising. During his tenure as a top advertising executive, he coined the now-famous phrase, “Black people are not dark-skinned white people.” His award-winning work promoted positive [...]
Black lawyer rejected for Pa. bar in 1847 admitted
By JENNIFER C. YATES, Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
(05-04) 14:48 PDT Pittsburgh (AP) –
As a scholar, poet and abolitionist, George B. Vashon broke barriers in the 1800s: he was the first black to graduate from Oberlin College, the first black lawyer in New York state and [...]
Witnessing political life in the Age of Obama is fascinating! However, no matter what the President does he has not changed, and cannot change, the “unbearable worthiness of whiteness.” Let me explain to you what I mean. The United States has made a seismic shift from my childhood in New Orleans when Ruby Bridges, two [...]
Dr. Paul Farmer, UN Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti, on Haiti’s Challenges Following Catastrophic Earthquake and Years of Western Domination
Last year, the well-known activist medical anthropologist Dr. Paul Farmer was appointed the UN Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti. Farmer is founder of the charity Partners in Health, which provides healthcare for people with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, [...]
Once you learn how to read, you will be forever free!–Frederick Douglass
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Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s fiction and essays have appeared in Story Quarterly, Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories 2009, The Kenyon Review, PMS: PoemMemoirStory, North Carolina Literary Review, and Richard Wright Newsletter. Born and raised in Memphis, a graduate of Harvard, and a former University of [...]