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Driving the Green Book — Hall '74
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By Alvin Hall, Class of 1974 Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide. For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers encountered locked doors, hostile police, and potentiall...
On the Other Side of Freedom — McKesson '07
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By Deray McKesson, Class of 2007 In August 2014, twenty-nine-year-old activist DeRay Mckesson stood with hundreds of others on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to push a message of justice and accountability. These protests, and others like them in cities across the country, resulted in the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, in hi...
Fist Stick Knife Gun — Canada '74
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By Geoffrey Canada '74 This brutally honest account of a childhood in the Bronx is a personal history of violence in America and a hopeful plea for the salvation of our children caught in today's crossfire. Canada's childhood experiences influenced his sensitive understanding of violent attitudes born out of fear and self-preservation. What is p...
The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm
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By Winston James John Brown Russwurm (1799-1851) is almost completely missing from the annals of the Pan-African movement, despite the pioneering role he played as an educator, abolitionist, editor, government official, emigrationist, and colonizationist. Russwurm's life is one of "firsts": first African American graduate of Maine's Bowdoin Co...
Africans in New Sweden — Muhammad '73
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By Abdullah R. Muhammad, Class of 1973 Historian Abdullah R. Muhammad examines a previously little-known and virtually untold aspect of Delaware’s history—the hidden role of Africans in the often brutal mercantile expansionism by European colonizers in the 17thcentury. Mr. Muhammad reveals for the first time details of the genesis of America’s...
Lazarus Jones — Johnson '71
Lazarus Jones — Johnson '71
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By Robert Johnson, Jr., Class of 1971 Lazarus Jones, a native of Boston and a Vietnam War veteran, travels to Mt. Kenya, East Africa to escape from his haunting war demons and the racism of 1970's Boston. On his journey, Lazarus meets Mukuria who has led a life of privilege in Nairobi, and now seeks out her Kikuyu traditional roots on the mounta...
Indigenous Peoples of East Africa — Jenson-Elliott '84
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By Cynthia Jenson-Elliott, Class of 1984 Indigenous Peoples of Africa examines the contemporary life of Africa's diverse populations as well as their widely varying social, cultural, and political histories. Family and community life, religious beliefs and practices, and the challenges of life in a fast-changing world are among the topics covere...
African American Settlements in West Africa: John Brown Russwurm & the American Civilizing Efforts
African American Settlements in West Africa: John Brown Russwurm & the American Civilizing Efforts
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By Amos Beyan, Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at Western Michigan University John Brown Russwurm [Bowdoin Class of 1826] and African American Settlement in West Africa examines Russwurm's intellectual accomplishments and significant contributions to the black civil rights movement in America from 1826 - 1829, and more signif...
Sutton E. Griggs — Chakkalakal
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Edited by Tess Chakkalakal, Peter M. Small Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English, Director of Africana Studies Program, and Kenneth W. Warren Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspap...
The Labor of Faith — Casselberry
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By Judith Casselberry, Associate Professor of Africana Studies In The Labor of Faith Judith Casselberry examines the material and spiritual labor of the women of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc., which is based in Harlem and one of the oldest and largest historically Black Pentecostal denominations in the United S...
Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
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By Paul Tough What would it take? That was the question that Geoffrey Canada [Bowdoin College Class of 1974] found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led hi...
Until There Is Justice — Scanlon
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By Jennifer ScanlonProfessor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; Senior Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs A demanding feminist, devout Christian, and savvy grassroots civil rights organizer, Anna Arnold Hedgeman played a key role in over half a century of social justice initiatives. Like many of her colleagues, including A. Phi...