Tag Archives: Harriet Beecher Stowe
James Baldwin and Richard Wright: What quarrel?
August 7, 2013 It was all very public, well documented. Wright had started out being the central inspiration. Baldwin’s essay, “Notes of a Native Son,” and his essay collection also of that title, are obvious tributes to the long … Continue reading
Posted in African-American literature, Global South, Race, Racial violence, Twentieth century literature
Tagged Bandung Conference, Charlton Heston, Congress of Racial Equality, Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Baldwin, Joan Baez, Marlon Brando, Martin Luther King, Native Son, Notes of a Native Son, Richard Wright, Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
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Sudan: George Clooney, Dave Eggers, Valentino Achak Deng
March 21, 2012 Last Friday George Clooney was arrested protesting the new humanitarian violations in Sudan. The Satellite Sentinel Project, which he co-founded with John Prendergast in October 2010, collects digital images analyzed by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and used … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, collaboration, Contemporary novel, Ethnicity, film medium, Global South, Islam, Media, print medium, world literature, YouTube videos
Tagged Arabs, Dave Eggers, George Clooney, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, John Prendergast, Josiah Henson, Middle East, Nuba Mountains, Omar al-Bashid, Satellite Sentinel Project, Sudan, Valentino Achak Deng, What is the What, YouTube
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