Category: African Americans
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The Harlem Renaissance and the Year 2020 – by Aberjhani
Logo for 100th Anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance The exact start of the Harlem Renaissance cannot be easily identified––nor, for that matter, can its end. There are in fact those who maintain that the Harlem Renaissance has never come to full head-on conclusion. It has instead adapted, evolved, and shifted…
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2012 in Review for the Bridge of Silver Wings
My gratitude to the WordPress “helper monkeys” who have so generously assisted with this blog and to the Tech Angels who provide similar assistance across the online board. You made an extraordinary difference in 2012 and I hope we can do it again in 2013. The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys…
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Notes on the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation (part 1 of 3) – by Aberjhani
Still from National Geographic video dramatization of President Abraham Lincoln greeting troops during the American Civil War around the time the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Welcome to the first of this special 3-part article series presented in honor of the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation: The fact that an…
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Why Race Mattered in Barack Obama’s Re-election: Editorial and Poem (part 1) – by Aberjhani
Passersby in New York check out billboard announcing Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election. (Reuters photograph by Carlo Allegri) “Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.” –from ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love (Aberjhani) Despite the Associated Press’s recent gloomy poll on racial attitudes in the…
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