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Ban Firearms in South Africa

Africa Oct 15, 2006 0

Ban Firearms in South Africa  By Mpumelelo Toyise Too many images broadcast to the world about our country are of horrific incidents of violent crime. Contrary to widely propagated beliefs it is the majority, poor and black people, who mainly fall prey to this sickening level of terror. It is mainly women…

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Langston Hughes and Africa

Langston Hughes and Africa

AfricaArticlesEducation & HistoryLiterature & Arts February 4, 2015 0

    ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes     Home         www.nathanielturner.com Hughes set out to do what few, regardless of race, creed, or color, have succeeded in doing, a body of work that has given us a rich, varied, and often vivid picture... Read more
Langston Hughes Life and Works

Langston Hughes Life and Works

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    ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes     Home    www.nathanielturner.com Much of his work celebrated the beauty and dignity and Humanity of black Americans. Unlike other writers Hughes basked in the  glow of the obviously  high regard of his primary audience, African Americans.... Read more
Langston Hughes Bio

Langston Hughes Bio

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    ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes     Home    www.nathanielturner.com   Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman were Hughes  primary literary influences. He is known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties.... Read more
Martin Luther King Speaks in Baltimore 1958

Martin Luther King Speaks in Baltimore 1958

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    ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes     Home      www.nathanielturner.com I never will forget the experience that came to all of us on that night, that the old nation was to pass away and a new nation to come into being. I... Read more
A History of the Black Press 

A History of the Black Press 

ArticlesBlack LaborEducation & History February 4, 2015 0

    ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes     Home       www.nathanielturner.com This book also takes a quick look—but only in two short chapters—at the history of advertising in this press and the roles played by African-American magazines (which is included in a chapter... Read more
History and Spirituality

History and Spirituality

ArticlesEducation & HistoryReligion & Politics February 4, 2015 0

    ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes     Home        www.nathanielturner.com What we learn from Mr. Joseph is that the Black Power revolution was painful, stressful, traumatic, suicidal, homicidal, but often liberating, such as the 1972 convention and Congress of African People. Just... Read more
History, Intellectual Responsibility, &  Struggle

History, Intellectual Responsibility, &  Struggle

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    ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes     Home         www.nathanielturner.com each of us has to make this a better world through service . . . and only you can determine what kind of service you can provide.  Yes, as a very privileged... Read more
A History of Africana Women

A History of Africana Women

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    ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes     Home       www.nathanielturner.com  women’s roles in nation-building have largely remained blank pages of  history; hence, this essay  fills in the blank pages with a reconstructed account of  women’s contributions by recourse to oral traditions, personal... Read more
The History of White People

The History of White People

ArticlesEducation & History February 4, 2015 0

    ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes     Home       www.nathanielturner.com Her commodious history of an idea accommodates Caesar; Saint Patrick, history’s most famous British slave of the early medieval period; Madame de Staël; and Emerson, the philosopher king of American white race... Read more
History to Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry

History to Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry

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    ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes     Home      www.nathanielturner.com  Over the years I have known Ukali, he has been a consistent advocate for justice and equality for African people everywhere. In this book, History to Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry, Ukali chronicles... Read more
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