Quraysh ali lansana biography of abraham
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Juneteenth celebration Saturday at Hopkinsville Boys and Girls Club
Community members are invited to a Juneteenth Celebration from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 17, at the Boys and Girls Club, Walnut St.
Hopkinsville’s Divine Nine — the local representatives of Black fraternities and sororities in the National Pan-Hellenic Council — will host the event to commemorate the national holiday that celebrates emancipation gained by enslaved Americans at the end of the Civil War.
Among several activities planned for the Juneteenth event, a keynote address will be delivered at 1 p.m. by author and civil rights historian Quraysh Ali Lansana.
Originally from Enid, Oklahoma, he fryst vatten the author of 22 books in poetry, nonfiction, children’s literature and literary anthologies. As the director of the Center for Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa, he has worked to “plan for and bring about transformational and sustainable change, and to address t
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“There’s a line between what’s appropriate and what’s appropriation,” says Coval, shown above in his Albany Park apartment. Photo: Bryan Allen Lamb
The first time I saw Kevin Coval read, I thought he was black.
It was the fall of , and I was sitting at the back of a dim Art Institute auditorium. Onstage, Coval had just joined a jazz sextet led by drummer Mike Reed. They were performing a suite of music and poetry inspired by Reed’s violent run-in with neo-Nazis. Coval’s flat-brimmed cap was pulled low over his thick-framed glasses, his crisp oxford shirt buttoned up to his throat. He read in a pit-deep register, half pastor, half rapper, punctuating each line with a jab of his index finger.
original is myth. nothing
comes from one. truth is, we’re mixed.
the whole of history/herstory
a miscegenation. a confluence
of influence
I had come with my own assumption. Surely the cofounder of the nation’s largest youth p
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Africana Studies
W.E.B. Du Bois
February 23, – August 27,
Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a noted scholar, editor, and African American activist. Du Bois was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)-- the largest and oldest civil rights organization in America). Throughout his life Du Bois fought discrimination and racism. He made significant contributions to debates about race, politics, and history in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, primarily through his writing and impassioned speaking on race relations. Du Bois also served as editor of The Crisis magazine and published several scholarly works on race and African American history. By the time he died, in , he had written 17 books, edited four journals and played a key role in reshaping black-white relations in America.
Selected Bibliography
Writings
Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Ske