Historic 1955 Bandung Conference in Indonesia; 52 African and Asian countries many or all newly independent from colonialism, plus many famous & not famous early leaders of anti-colonial independence movements, plus both sympathetic & antipathic "voyeurs"
To foster dialogue between African diaspora, Africa & the African Union on reconstructing relationships; foster understanding and critical interp. of history, development, conditions, status, cultures of the diverse peoples of African descent in the socie
Why and how do domestic servitude and prostitution (always) seem to be the preponderant "overseas work opportunities" for so many African women and women of African descent?
Favorable review of Adam Hochschild book on end of Britain's trade in African people: "Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves." Hochschild authored King Leopold's Ghost, about atrocities committed by Belgians in the C
Priscilla was 10-yr old African girl kidnapped from Sierra Leone & taken to Charleston,SC in 1756! Ed Ball ("Slaves in the Family") found her in his family's documents...
Marian Douglas re-named 17 March "BILLIE HOLI-DAY." Eleanora/Billie's mother, Sadie Fagan, was a 13 year old child when Billie was born. "Billie Holiday’s grandfather was one of 17 children of an Irish male slaveholder and [an enslaved Black Virginia wo
"... Lest any of us forget the fact remains the vast majority of the world's women were not in Beijing in 1995. I said that in 1995 and I repeat it here. Across the globe in 1995 women were in the places where they live, working to improve their lives and
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