Tag: slavery

Homecoming: How Afrofuturism Bridges the Past and the Present

READ TOCHI ONYEBUCHI’S PIECE AT TOR.COM.

Help Transcribe Documents from Boston Public Library’s Anti-Slavery Collection

LINK: They Need Your Time, Not Your Money

The Gorgeous, Moving ‘Run For It’ Brings to Light Brazil’s Hidden Slave History

Click here to go to The AV Club.

‘Black America’: Amazon Alt-History Drama From Will Packer & Aaron McGruder Envisions Post-Reparations America

Click here to read at Deadline.

A Haitian Machete Martial Arts Master Shares His Secrets

Read all about it at Neatorama.

The real life Machete….

Frederick Douglass On How Slave Owners Used Food As A Weapon Of Control #BlackHistoryMonth

Read at NPR.org.

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Ava DuVernay on Modern Slavery in America

Click here to read at The New York Times.

Ava DuVernay Illuminates the Connection Between Incarceration and Slavery in Netflix Documentary “13th”

Read all about it and watch the trailer at The Mary Sue.

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New ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Poster Revealed!

See more photos at Comingsoon.net.

Opens in theaters on October 7.

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

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

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