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When is a museum more than a museum? When it’s Oak Bluffs’ Mariposa Museum and World Culture Center, which is a welcoming, light-filled space brimming with art expressions of many kinds. The museum was established to foster an understanding of African American and African diaspora history, culture, and experience through the creativity of primarily Black […] ....
The new opera tells a largely-forgotten story, about a 19th century Muslim scholar stolen from Senegal and sold into slavery in America, who left behind a remarkable autobiography, written in Arabic, that informs the history of our multicultural nation. ....
Dr. Artemus A.W. Barry Gaye (middle) a 7th generation descendant of the Futa Jallon Empire, flanked by members of the Fulani community of LiberiaMONROVIA – The direct descendants of the former ruling house of the Futa Jallon Empire whose reign lasted ....
By Bashir Akinyele (I will use African and Black interchangeably for people of African descent) I have finished reading Dr. Molefi Kete Asante’s book-Revolutionary Pedagogy: Primer for Teachers of Black Children. Revolutionary Pedagogy was given to educators at Weequachic High School in Newark, NJ as gift for Teacher Appreciation Week by our principal-Mr. Kyle G […] ....
Scholars from the Department of African, African American and diaspora studies and a University Libraries digitization specialist traveled to Senegal and Mali to preserve and digitize 6,000 pages of handwritten Islamic manuscripts. ....