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Selvam Allotey wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 9 months ago
The spillover effects from the colonial era can clearly be recognized in the context of Kenya and its strictness on uniformity. Hairstyles are a unique identifier for different races and this is no different from […]
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Abby Blinka commented on the post, Women in the future, on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 6 years, 9 months ago
Hello! To preface, I only have a shallow understanding of Afrofuturism. However, your post peaked my interest and I found an article on Afrofuturist feminism by Susana Morris that may be interesting […]
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Selvam Allotey commented on the post, UBUNTU: More Than a Show About Africa, on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 9 months ago
Similar to how the cultural aspects of the Harlem Renaissance was for Black people after WWI, culture is used as a medium of educating others about African culture through an Afrocentric lens. In many instances, […]
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Jackeb-Eligah Milan wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 9 months ago
I first learned of the “Igbo Landing Legend” from my class, ‘Jazz & African American Literature’. I had found it interesting and very moving. The legend takes place in 1803, and is referred to by some as the […]
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Natalie Bean commented on the post, Chicago welcomes its first gay black female mayor!, on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 9 months ago
I am so glad you posted about this because it is so exciting! This race was particularly powerful as it featured a runoff election between two African American women vying for the Mayor’s spot. One with experience […]
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Gracie wrote a new post on the site Español 201 6 years, 9 months ago
Esta semana, hablamos sobre la vida y las canciones de Juanes con nuestra amiga, Kate.
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Eliza Cullen wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 10 months ago
Jordan Peele is changing the way we think of horror movies. The first movie that he directed, Get Out, had a budget of 4.5 million dollars and has made over 255 million in the box office. Get Out is the story of a […]
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Abigail McFarren wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 10 months ago
While watching the documentary on the Civil Rights Movement for class last week I started to think more about the Little Rock Nine. They had always been an element of any class discussion or lesson on the Civil […]
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Natalie Bean wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 10 months ago
On February 14th of this year, Brooklyn based activist and journalist Shaun King and friend Benjamin Dixon relaunched the North Star, an abolitionist newspaper created by Fredrick Douglass in 1847. This time […]
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Eliza Cullen wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 10 months ago
A few summers ago, I read a book titled Just Mercy, written by a lawyer named Bryan Stevenson. The New York Times best seller tells of Bryan Stevenson’s work representing people that been victims of an unjust, […]
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Max Hill commented on the post, Broader Implications of Understanding Brown as A Cold War Case, on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 10 months ago
I like your connections being made between modern events and the case of Brown vs. Board of Education (I can’t figure out how to italicize here). Also, I was unaware of the connections of the Cold War and that […]
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Gabriel Greening wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 10 months ago
As we discuss the United States of America in the mid 20th Century, it is very important to realize how many eyes and cameras are pointed to the States’ direction. Known as a world power and “hailed as [a] […]
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Gabriel Greening wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 10 months ago
In the series, Eyes on the Prize, the death of a young boy, Emmett Till, was detailed in Episode 1: Awakenings. Before watching Episode one of Eyes on the Prize, I knew the basics of Emmett Till’s death and that o […]
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Abigail McFarren commented on the post, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Diagram, on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 10 months ago
I found the simulation interesting as well. It did a good job of depicting the vast amounts of slave ships which were sent from the West Coast of Africa to North and South America. Visualizing the amount of ships […]
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Masani Francis wrote a new post on the site Español 201 6 years, 10 months ago
Este podcast es sobre nuestras experiencias con cursos universitarios de español, así como nuestra transición de Español de escuela secundaria a clases de Español universitario. También discutiremos nuestr […]
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Jackeb-Eligah Milan wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 10 months ago
Within the years 2015 and 2016 in the United States, violence against blacks as well as racial injustices reached a peak. With many unjustified police shootings (black males aged 15-34 were nine times mor […]
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msmith20 wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 10 months ago
In 1865, President Lincoln’s last speech introduced his plan of Reconstruction for the US after the Civil War. Specifically, Lincoln addressed the state of Louisiana, which was the first former Confederate state t […]
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msmith20 wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 10 months ago
In 1865 Abraham Lincoln gave a speech introducing the idea of Reconstruction, after the Civil War. The purpose of Lincoln’s Reconstruction was to smoothly reintegrate former Confederate states back into the U […]
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A'Janay Nicholson wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 6 years, 10 months ago
In class, we have been discussing how Black women have been over looked and often forgotten about. Last semester I took a class called Afrofuturism, and the issue about Black women not being seen in Afrofuturism […]
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Cameron Papp wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 10 months ago
History is constantly being made, especially with the breakthroughs that have been made with diversity in our politicians. One such example is the newly elected elected mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot. […]
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