Fannie Bell Chapman
The Voice of Gospel and Healing in the Mississippi Delta Fannie Bell Chapman, born Fannie Bell Norman in 1900, was a revered gospel singer, faith...
Author : joe bodego
Segregation in Canada
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A Historical and Contemporary Perspective Segregation in Canada, while often overshadowed by the more overt Jim Crow laws of the United States, was a pervasive...
Lennox Raphael
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A Life in Art, Activism, and Exile Lennox Alison Raphael (September 4, 1939 – November 27, 2023) was a Trinidadian-born poet, playwright, journalist, painter, and...
The West Indian Syndrome
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To Be or Not to Be an American Negro by Lennox Raphael Based on available excerpts, citations in scholarly works, and previews, here’s a comprehensive...
Bob Hudson Lynched & Wife Beaten in Weakley County, Tennessee
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On October 9, 1893, in the rural expanse of Weakley County, Tennessee, near the small town of Dresden, a Black farmer named Bob Hudson became...
The Paradox of Western Values – Atrocities, Hypocrisy, & the Illusion of Moral Superiority
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In an era of global interconnectedness, the phrase “Western values” is often invoked as a beacon of enlightenment—a shorthand for democracy, human rights, individual liberty,...
The Stick Boys of Ethiopia’s Banna Tribe
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Grace on Stilts In the sun-baked expanses of Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley, where the Omo and Weyto rivers carve through arid savannas and marshy lowlands,...
The Egypt Plantation
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Thomas Thistlewood’s Domain in Jamaica The Egypt plantation, located in Westmoreland parish in western Jamaica, was the primary site of Thomas Thistlewood’s operations as a...
Thomas Thistlewood
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Thomas Thistlewood (1721–1786) was an English-born planter, slave owner, and prolific diarist whose life in colonial Jamaica provides one of the most detailed—and disturbing—windows into...
Dum Diversas: The Papal Bull That Legitimized Conquest and Slavery
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In the annals of ecclesiastical history, few documents carry the weight of moral and geopolitical consequence as Dum Diversas, a papal bull issued on June...