April 2012
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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.
In...
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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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February 2012
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Nelson Mandela
On February 11, 1990, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b. 1918), the iconic leader of the anti-apartheid struggle, was released from prison after 27 years; the whole world watched the moving event live on television.
In a speech that same day, he declared forcefully, “Our resort to the armed struggle in 1960 with the formation of the military wing of the ANC was a purely defensive action against...
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January 2012
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GMAD at 25: A History in Words and Images
By Steven G. Fullwood, Co-curator of the exhibition GMAD at 25: A History in Words and Images, and Project Director for the Black Gay & Lesbian Archive, Schomburg Center
I discovered Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD) in 1998, four months after I moved to New York City. At the time GMAD’s office was located in Chelsea, on14th Street. I attended one of its Friday Night Forums and was fortunate...
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Amsterdam News Writes About the Schomburg's Winter... →
We hope to see you here at the Schomburg Center!
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What Does it Mean to be "Post-Black?"
Do you use the term “post-blackness?” Do you consider yourself “post- black?” Or do you pretty much scratch your head because you’re wondering what in the world people mean when they use that term? If any of these apply to you, then you need to come to the Schomburg’s new series, Stage for Debate.
With Stage for Debate, the Schomburg launches a series of...
December 2011
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