March 2012
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Global Imbalance, Inhumanity, Injustice, Trayvon...
On March 30, 2012, students at the United Nations Global Student Videoconference of The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Honouring the Heroes, Resisters and Survivors, will share local stories and discuss the legacy of slavery and its link to inhumanity and injustice. This live interactive forum aims to link the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to its impact and influence on today’s world.
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Remembering Walter Rodney
Pan-Africanist Walter Rodney (1942–1980) was born to a working-class family in Guyana. He earned his Ph.D. at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in 1966. His thesis, published in 1970, A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545–1800 has remained a classic.
Teaching in Tanzania and Jamaica, he gained international attention for his advocacy for the working poor. Rodney founded the...
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REMEMBERING BAYARD RUSTIN
One year before Bayard Rustin’s death, he wrote a letter to Joseph Beam, editor of In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology. Rustin declined an invitation to contribute to the project which featured writings and interviews with black gay men, and felt it was necessary to explain why.
“My activism did not spring from being gay, or for that matter, from my being black. Rather it is rooted, fundamentally,...
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