Campusnotes No. 1–Listening to the Black Messiah

This post, is the first in a new series for Africa Is A Country; Campus Notes. The series adapts research papers by undergraduate students and reformats them for readers of…..

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March 7, 2012

‘An extra day to be black’

I know we’re already seven days into March, but visual artist Michael Paul Britto’s request for ‘an extra day to be black’ in mainstream media outlets, still holds. (For those in…..

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February 20, 2012

Necessary doses of pan-Africanism: Esperanza Spalding’s “Black Gold”

It’s not too late to take your vitamins. And this. Jazz bass player and bandleader Esperanza Spalding, who defeated Bieber nation last year, takes on school curriculum and Black History…..

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February 3, 2011

White History Month

Writer and journalist Gary Younge in a 2007 column in “The Nation”–that’s still worth repeating–on Black History Month (that’s every February here in the US). … So much of Black…..

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February 22, 2010

Black History Month

I love the work of David Rees.