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West, who is also professor of the philosophy of religion at the Divinity School, drew heavily on the history of oppression of Blacks in the Americas, from 1492 to the present, He cited the deaths of more than 200 million Africans in the trans-Atlantic slave trade...
...beginning, they hold your hand and takeyou through training...and they allow a certainmargin of error," Hong says. "The environmentturn[ed] out to be far more friendly than Ithought it would be. It wasn't the slave camp thatone might have imagined...
...birth of the African-American intelligentsia in the 19th century. Henry Gates notes in an article on Frederick Douglass in the New York Times Book Review (May 28, 1995) how, in several versions of his attempt at an autobiography, Douglass emphasized the fact that his father was a white slave owner in one autobiographical version while, in another version, he emphasized the importance of his Black mother to his quest for a viable personhood in our white supremacist-riddled American society. From Frederick Douglass, through James Weldon Johnson (head of the NAACP in the 1930s), to Jean Toomer (a major...
Jacobson, who has only been diving since her sophomore year of high school but had 12 years of prior gymnastics experience, has had a pretty chaotic time of it over the last week. Jacobson, a slave to a grueling schedule that fuses competition, practice and homework, competed in the Phillips 66 Indoor National Diving Championships last Wednesday and Saturday...
...Louis Farrakhan, Madonna, Leonard Jeffries, David Duke, Pat Buchanan and Khalid Mohammed are all anti-Semitic. But others who 1) believe Americans Jews are too powerful, too successful or too influential 2) deny the Holocaust occurred or 3) accuse Jews of engagin in a disproportionate share of the Atlantic slave trade are also anti-Semitic. The report reminds me of a speech by Abba Eban in the 1950s, wherein he concluded his long list of anti-Semites by declaring that the whole world was anti-Semitic...