Posts Tagged Atlantic Slave Trade
Abolition, Afro Kitsch, and Bamako
December 31, 2009 by Administrator
by Patricia Spears Jones, March/April 2007 The annual New Year’s card arrived from Tomie Arai—a most happy Pig. This is the Pig’s year and already there’s a lot of rooting out of bad influences, bad people, bad ideas even as strange talk pollutes the airwaves. Dead blondes in the Bahamas, missing billions in Iraq, Dick [...]
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Tags: Atlantic Slave Trade, Darfur, ear of the Pig, Flash of the Spirit, Last King of Scotland, Mali, Niger, Robert Farris Thompson, Senegal, Senegalese, The New York Times, Tomie Arai, ynda Hull Tribute
Destinations: Where Brooklynites will be going this summer
December 27, 2009 by Administrator
by Earl S. Davis, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn and Atim Annette Oton As an African-born child with an American mother of Trinidad and Jamaican heritage, some would say I was born to travel. And after visiting over 40 countries across the world, I highly recommend this experience to anyone. The editorial I wrote earlier begins with [...]
Culture, Travel & Heritage, Features|3 Comments
Tags: Atlantic Slave Trade, baha, bahia, Bajan Bash, Barbados, Brazil, Brooklyn, Copacabana, egypt, favelas, Ipanema beach, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, morocco, rio, Rio de Janeiro, samba music, tours, Travel, West Indies