Alt right, short for “alternative right,” is a repackaging of white supremacy by extremists seeking to mainstream their ideology.
The term emerged in 2010 and started to gain widespread traction in 2016.
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April 14, 2021
ALT RIGHT: A PRIMER ON THE NEW WHITE SUPREMACY
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March 8, 2021
AMILCAR CABRAL
Amílcar Cabral, also known as Abel Djassi, was a leader in the struggle for independence in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. Cabral was a writer, agronomic engineer, and Marxist nationalist. He was born on September 12, 1924 in Bafata, Portuguese Guinea. His father, Juvenal Cabral was Cape Verdean and his mother Iva Pinhel Évora was Guinean. In 1932 his family moved …
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March 6, 2021
AYAAN HIRSI ALI
“Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.”
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March 6, 2021
ALEXANDRE DUMAS pere
Dumas also had several love affairs throughout his life, flouting societal convention by fathering several illegitimate children, including Alexandre Dumas fils who too would become a noted writer
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February 28, 2021
EFUNROYE TINUBU
Efunporoye Osuntinubu Olumosa (often shortened to Efunroye Tinubu) was a shrewd and ambitious Nigerian business tycoon who wielded enormous economic power across Western Africa and political power in Abeokuta and Lagos.
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February 27, 2021
ALIOUNE DIOP
“Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilisation. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt”.
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February 27, 2021
ALI AL’AMIN MAZRUI
Mazrui was always willing to confront contentious issues. He began his academic life in the 1960s as an ardent critic of all variants of Marxism, just as African socialism was becoming the prevailing orthodoxy.
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February 26, 2021
QUEEN/KANDEKE AMANIRENAS
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Left: Queen Amanirenas. Credit: solarey.net – Right: Wall relief of Queen Amanirenas. Credit: egyptsearch.com
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February 16, 2021
AL GREEN
After being kicked out of the family home for listening to the secular music of Jackie Wilson, Green started a group called the Creations, which later became Al Greene and the Soul Mates.
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February 14, 2021
AIME CESAIRE
In Paris, Césaire met Senegalese Léopold Sédar Senghor and French Guiana’s Léon Damas. Together they started the journal L’Etudiant Noir (The Black Student) in 1934 to bring together students from Africa and the West Indies. The journal explored the expression of a Pan-African worldview under colonization.