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Alexander, Peter • reference by to African-Americans as "colored people" at the end of a conversation with the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is somehow seen as apology-worthy...
...Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery, the scenes of rage, shame, and transcendence captured by late photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode seek to overcome conventions. The provocative images of “Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)”, an exhibit hosted by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, engulf and overwhelm with the impact of shamanic vision.Rotimi Fani-Kayode was a conflicted man. He describes himself as an “outsider on three counts: in matters of sexuality; in terms of geographical and cultural dislocation; and in the sense of not having become the sort...
Abdel Kechiche’s “The Secret of the Grain” is a raw and unexaggerated snapshot of the tensions and experiences of a North African immigrant family living in the south of France. Writer-director Kechiche (“It’s Voltaire’s Fault,” “Games of Love and Chance”) employs his familiar documentary-style filmmaking to realistically expose the conflicts and betrayals, emotions and loyalties of this family, making no attempt to moralize or embellish. “The Secret of the Grain?...
...common in the West to read about African lives in grim statistical terms, so we've become inured to these huge numbers of deaths. Making matters worse, the conflict in Congo is often seen as a hopelessly byzantine African tribal war, encouraging the damning notion that nothing will ever change. This, of course, creates a sense of hopelessness - and nothing cuts down on humanitarian, foreign and development assistance so much as the jaded diminution of hope. The nation most in need of investment gets the least by the cruel logic that it is the most broken. It is a self...
...after innumerable failed, internationally brokered peace efforts, a quietly engineered, bilateral African solution has broken a stalemate. Now there is at least a chance of something better for eastern Congo. Says Kagame, who has lived through civil war, genocide and two wars in Congo: "I have never been more hopeful than right...