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Encyclopaedia Africana L
March 21, 2021
LÉOPOLD SÉDAR SENGHOR
Before the war, Senghor worked to create an ideological framework that would encompass his French-ness and his African-ness. As time progressed he increasingly became more attached to his African traditions and less interested in assimilation.
Encyclopaedia Africana L
March 6, 2021
LAURA MVULA
Laura has taken personal misery and turned it into musical magic.
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March 1, 2021
LEARIE CONSTANTINE
After his retirement from professional cricket Constantine began working in a lawyer’s office, a career he had previously pursued before his years of professional cricket.
Encyclopaedia Africana L
February 28, 2021
LÉON-GONTRAN DAMAS
Leon-Gontran Damas was also the first black writer to address the impact of colonization on the psyche of the colonized.
Encyclopaedia Africana L
February 27, 2021
LAURA ÉLODIE FLESSEL-COLOVIC
She promoted fencing clubs in struggling neighborhoods, paid to equip them, and assisted a program called Fly Away whose goal was to produce Olympic fencers.
Encyclopaedia Africana L
February 7, 2021
LOUIS FARRAKHAN
Popularly known as “The Charmer,” he achieved fame in Boston as a vocalist, calypso singer, dancer and violinist. In February 1955, while visiting Chicago for a musical engagement, he was invited to attend the Nation of Islam’s Saviours’ Day convention.
Encyclopaedia Africana L
February 4, 2021
RACISM IN THE UK LEGAL SYSTEM – STUART HALL FOUNDATION RACE REPORT, 2021
There is greater disproportionality in the number of Black people in prisons in the UK than in the United States.’
Encyclopaedia Africana L
November 17, 2020
LEONARD WOODLEY, QC
Len and 2 friends were arrested on charges of being “suspected persons” after leaving the Hampstead home of the great West Indies cricketer Sir Learie Constantine.
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October 4, 2020
OCTOBER 1953: LEN JOHNSON CHALLENGES THE COLOUR BAR
The Race Relations Act of 1965 made racial discrimination in public places unlawful in a direct response to the colour bar, with the legislation strengthened even further over the following years.