Tag: slavery

Homecoming: How Afrofuturism Bridges the Past and the Present

by Dark Matters • February 28, 2018

READ TOCHI ONYEBUCHI’S PIECE AT TOR.COM.

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

by Dark Matters • January 31, 2018

LINK: They Need Your Time, Not Your Money

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

by Dark Matters • November 10, 2017

Click here to go to The AV Club.

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

by Dark Matters • August 2, 2017

Click here to read at Deadline.

Articles, Videos

A Haitian Machete Martial Arts Master Shares His Secrets

by Dark Matters • February 24, 2017

Read all about it at Neatorama.

The real life Machete….

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

by Dark Matters • February 18, 2017

Read at NPR.org.

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Ava DuVernay on Modern Slavery in America

by Dark Matters • October 7, 2016

Click here to read at The New York Times.

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

by Dark Matters • September 27, 2016

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

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New ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Poster Revealed!

by Dark Matters • July 17, 2016

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

by Dark Matters • June 5, 2016

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

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