All Blog Posts Tagged 'Nation' (4)

Grateful to be affiliating on this "Holy Day"

As a long-time reader/subscriber to The Nation magazine where the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Last Steep Ascent" speech was first published, I'm especially appreciative to have been accepted into your ranks of progressive liberals who perceptively FEEL the great Truths of "Equality" in the precept "e pluribus unum," and its recognition we ALL gain "strength through diversity."

Added by Lew Andrew Welge on January 16, 2012 at 1:09pm — 1 Comment

Black Washitaw Nation ;People of Color Also Owned Miles of Unitied States Pre-Columbus





One of the saddest aspects of enslavement in the Americas, particular North America, is the fact that all forms of education was denied us and still is today. Blacks were forced to…
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Added by Mark Wells on December 22, 2010 at 4:23pm — 2 Comments

The Birth of a Nation ( The Movie, 1915)





The Birth of a Nation (premiered with the title The Clansman) is a 1915 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith. Set during and after the American Civil War, the film was based on Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, a novel and play.




The Birth of a Nation was the…
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Added by Mark Wells on December 4, 2010 at 12:36am — 2 Comments

The Haitian Revolution ; The Birth of a Nation



Toussaint L'Ouverture was the most important figure in the Haitian Revolution. He is often described as a very ugly man, a characteristic seen often in French art, but rarely in Haitian.







Background



The riches of the Caribbean depended on the…
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Added by Mark Wells on November 20, 2010 at 12:00am — 3 Comments

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