Tag: history

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Amazing STEM heroes of #BlackWomenDidThat

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LINK: Black Girl Magic translating into innovations in science

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New ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Poster Revealed!

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See more photos at Comingsoon.net.

Opens in theaters on October 7.

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Diego Carrera’s Video: 122 Films Take Us Through A History of Horror, 1895-2016

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Watch at Laughingsquid.com.

This is fantastic. There are some notable absences (maybe I blinked, but I don’t remember seeing Friday the 13th). But, the editing is EVERYTHING. Music:”Camino” by Murcof.

Still from Tod Browning's Freaks, 1932

Still from Tod Browning’s Freaks, 1932

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Tackling Slavery in the Classroom With a Graphic Novel and an App

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LINK: “Abina and the Important Men” has been adopted by some 300 colleges and universities

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Malachi Kirby Talks About ROOTS’s Return for the Black Lives Matter Generation

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Lots of great stuff in this piece…read on at The Daily Beast.

The Roots remake is showing on the History channel and stars Malachi Kirby as Kunta Kinte, Forest Whitaker, Laurence Fishburne, Anna Paquin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Matthew Goode, and Anika Noni Rose.

Malachi Koirby as Kuinta Kinte in the 2016 remake of the legendary miniseries Roots

Malachi Kirby as Kunta Kinte in the 2016 remake of the legendary miniseries Roots

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John Lewis’ Graphic Novel to Be Taught in NYC Public Schools

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LINK: “March” will give students an eye-witness memoir of the civil rights movement of the 1960s

March: Book One, cover detail

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‘Founding Fathers,’ A Documentary Narrated By Public Enemy’s Chuck D, Presents the True History of Hip Hop

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Read about it at Openculture.com.

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It’s Ren Faire Season. And, Yes, There Were Black People In Renaissance Europe

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Read at Black Nerd Problems.

Attributed to Antoine Pesne (1683 - 1757): Portrait of a black page with a white parrot (via the People of Color in European Art History Tumblr page)

Attributed to Antoine Pesne (1683 – 1757): Portrait of a black page with a white parrot (via the People of Color in European Art History Tumblr page)

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Great moments in the history of black science fiction

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Nisi Shawl has assembled a fantastic reading list

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Janelle Monáe joins Taraji P Henson & Octavia Spencer in NASA movie

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LINK: Talk about fan-casting: this here’s a trifecta for the Blerd Nation.

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