Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gates stamps will be released today by Ghana and are available for sale around the world. Part of the proceeds from sales in Ghana will be used to support literacy in the African country...
...issue is being organized by a New York-based postal agency, Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corp. (IGPC), along with the Smithsonian Institution's Center for African-American History and Culture and Howard University's African-American Resource Center...
...postage series was the brainchild of E. Ethelbert Miller, director of the African-American Resource Center at Howard University...
...been working on this [project] since March," Miller said. "I was traveling in the Middle East. In Bahrain, I read a newspaper article about IGPC. There were pictures of stamps of Sylvester Stallone, President Reagan, and I thought, 'why not African-American writers...
...When I look at African-American literature, I see him as a major player. When I look at where African-American literary criticism is going, I see him shaping it. I couldn't ignore him," he said...