He also helped to found the organization Autograph: Association of Black Photographers.
Encyclopaedia Africana R
February 27, 2021
RUBEN UM NYOBÈ
“La politique touche à tout et tout touche à la politique. Dire que l’on ne fait pas de politique, c’est avouer que l’on a pas le désir de vivre.”
“Politics touches everything and everything touches politics. To say that you don’t play politics is to admit that you don’t want to live. ”
Encyclopaedia Africana R
February 24, 2021
RUBY DEE
Racism is a disease of democracy. Our country could be one of the greatest countries that god ever imagined, were it not for this thing of racism…This grand experiment that is America is tainted by racism and bigotry, and these kinds of hatreds…This ridiculous thing of racism.”
Encyclopaedia Africana R
February 23, 2021
RUBY BRIDGES
Ruby’s birth year coincided with the US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas, which ended racial segregation in public schools.
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Encyclopaedia Africana R
February 20, 2021
RUPAUL CHARLES
In 1991, RuPaul was signed to a recording contract by Tommy Boy Records, and two years later his debut album, Supermodel of the World, appeared. He found a hit with the single “Supermodel (You Better Work),” which reached the Top 50 of the pop charts and No. 2 on the dance club charts.
Encyclopaedia Africana R
February 10, 2021
THE RACE RELATIONS ACT 1968
The Act defines discrimination as treating a person less favourably than another person o grounds of colour, race, or ethnic or national origins in the provision to the public of goods, facilities and services, and in employment and housing.
Encyclopaedia Africana R
February 9, 2021
UK: LONDONERS’ PROTEST MEETING AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, 1943
“Coloured folk cab die fighting for us, can help destroy Fascism, can help preserve our freedom, but they are not allowed to gather in the harvest or stay at certain hotels.”
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February 9, 2021
UK: 1958 GOVERNMENT LETTER RE RACE RELATIONS FOLLOWING THE UPRISINGS IN NOTTINGHAM & NOTTING HILL GATE, LONDON
“Disturbances involving coloured immigrants took place in Nottingham and North Kensington at the end of august and beginning of September 1958”
Encyclopaedia Africana R
February 6, 2021
UK – Improving outcomes for young Black and/or Muslim men in the Criminal Justice System,
The task of addressing the negative outcomes for so many young black and/or Muslim men in the Criminal Justice System (CJS)
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February 6, 2021
UK – Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain Report, 2000
The Parekh Report
Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain