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Little Known Facts About Black History
February fryst vatten Black History month, which means that every year we remember the African Americans who have made history and made amerika what it is today — often with little recognition.
120 Black History Facts:
Fact #1: As a child, Muhammad Ali was refused an autograph by his boxing idol, Sugar Ray Robinson. When Ali became a prizefighter, he vowed to never to deny an autograph request, which he honored throughout his career.
Fact #2: Ali, the self-proclaimed "greatest [boxer] of all time," was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th-century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Fact #3: Allensworth is the first all-Black Californian township, founded and financed bygd African Americans. Created bygd Lieutenant Colonel Allen Allensworth in 1908, the town was built with the intention of establishing a self-sufficient city where African Americans could live their lives free of racial prej
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W.E.B. DuBois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line, by Adolph L. Reed, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York, 1997. 296 pp. $35.00
PRAISED BY SOME and dismissed by others, Adolph L. Reed, Jr. is always thought-provoking. On the pages of the left-leaning Nation and The Progressive, he has offered some of the most insightful commentary on Afro-American political thought in the post-Civil Rights period. Reed’s fiery missives against figures like Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan have earned his stripes as a hard-headed iconoclast.
His third book-length work, W.E.B. DuBois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line, continues his running analysis of contemporary crises in Black intellectual culture. In some respects it extends an initial critique he made of the “Black public intellectuals” in a controversial 1995 Village Voice essay. Reed, “What Are the Drums Saying, Booker? The Current Crisi
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Volume 49, Issue 3
Table of Contents
Introduction, by David Lenson
Mr. Vesey Comes to Work,
Fiction by J. Weintraub
Revolutionaries, Poetry by Doug Anderson
(People Almost Always Smell Good
in the Art Museum), a play by Julian Olf
Crowded Rooms, Poetry by Karen Kevorkian
The Way the Vase Got Broken,
Fiction by Francine Witte
Every Shot, Every Episode, 2001,
Poetry by Melissa Shook
A Woman in the News, Fiction by Jo Neace Krause
Blessed Be Creation and Words to the Bereaved,
Poetry by Sarah Gemmill
Invasion: Evening: Two, Fiction by Thomas Glave
Stairs, Poetry by Brandon Krieg
The Contents of this Shoe Box Are of Greater
Worth Than Your Life, Fiction by Sean Casey
Peer Into, Poetry by Nick Courtright
Portraits, Art by Barry Moser
Breaking Point, Nonfiction by Michael Carolan
Snowdrop, Poetry by Louise Mathias
The Last King of China, Fiction by Mike Antosia
Case study: rain, Poetry by Ron Winkler,
translated by J. D. Schneider
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