Showing posts with label Garvey Movement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garvey Movement. Show all posts

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Nzingha: Women in The Garvey Movement 2008

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My mum speaking on CVM At Sunrise in Jamaica about her book #Women in the #Garvey #Movement.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Nzingha: Women in The Garvey Movement 2008

Saturday, March 8, was the 50th anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Television scenes of nonviolent demonstrators beaten by police shocked the nation. As the movieSelma details, the March played a critical role in the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Nzingha: Women in The Garvey Movement 2008

I was a ninth grade English-Language Arts teacher in Washington, DC when I overheard an intensifying debate between two students about the existence of unicorns.

"There ain't no such thing... it's made up."
"How do you know they never existed? The idea had to come from somewhere."

As I made a mental note to do a lesson on double-negatives, my philosophical training compelled me to turn this

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