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Encyclopaedia Africana T May 12, 2023 Papal Bull of 1455, Romanus Pontifex

This Bull authorised Portugal to raid African Kingdoms, territories and land, capture and enslave the inhabitants and seize their natural and mineral resources, under the authority of the Pope and the Catholic Church.

E Encyclopaedia Africana October 7, 2022 The Reign of Elizabeth II

A summary of the reign of Elizabeth II and events that took place during her reign

Encyclopaedia Africana J October 5, 2022 Jamaica Past (images)

Selected images from 1800 – 1923

Education (RH) Resources Hub June 6, 2022 SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS/LEARNING DIFFERENCES

You or your child’s nursery/school/college notice that you child is not progressing, or is having a significantly greater difficulty in learning than other children of the same age.

General (LT) Uncategorized April 7, 2022 JAMAICANS LIVING IN UKRAINE WHEN RUSSIA INVADED IN FEBRUARY, SHARE THEIR ACCOUNTS (2022)

On February 25, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Many students from African and Caribbean nations were trapped in Ukraine, due to the
suddenness of the invasion. Here, some Jamaicans share their accounts.

Image attribution: Ιγκόρ, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Video (LT) April 7, 2022 CHERRY NATURAL (JAMAICA) SPOKEN WORD

Cherry Natural considers herself as a feminist dub poet or activist, and her sources of inspiration include the late Jamaican poet Louise Bennett. Louise Bennett is well-known as the first Caribbean poet who used Creole or patois consistently and to great effect in her ballads, and who relentlessly stood up for the people’s language as opposed to standard English which was then considered as the only passport to social elevation.

Image attribution: The SVG code is valid. This vector image was created with Inkscape by SKopp, and then manually edited by Zscout370, Madden and others., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Listening Tree Video (LT) April 5, 2022 Malcolm X Talks Meeting Fidel Castro (1960)| Barry Gray Talk Radio

Barry Gray on WMCA New York interviews Malcolm X. Malcolm X discusses his meeting with Fidel Castro in Harlem and systemic injustice on or about September 20, 1960.

Image: Phillie Casablanca, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

General (LT) Listening Tree April 5, 2022 TATE BRITAIN: Life Between Islands Exhibition (2022)

There was a lot to take in and ideally this would have been a two visit exhibition.

Listening Tree Narrative (LT) February 27, 2022 James Baldwin – How to Cool it, Esquire interview (1968)

In Esquire’s July 1968 issue, published just after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., the magazine talked to James Baldwin about the state of race relations in the country. We’ve republished the interview in full—and his words are incredibly relevant today.

Read the landmark 1968 Q&A on race in America.

Image: U.S. Information Agency. Press and Publications Service. (ca. 1953 – ca. 1978), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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