Tag: history
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Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle Film Festival
Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle Film Festival Breslin Learning Center, District 1199C Hospital Worker Union 100 S. Broad St. Land Title Building, 10th Floor, 215-568-2220 The Created Equal Project uses the power of documentary films to encourage public conversations about the changing meanings of freedom and equality in America. This program was developed in…
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Historic Overview of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia, a Lecture by Charles L. Blockson
Historic Overview of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia, a Lecture by Charles L. Blockson Wednesday Oct 15, 3pm Temple University, 1330 Polett Walk Charles L. Blockson has distinguished himself as a historian dedicated to Black history, amassing one of the largest private collections of African-American history in the United States, a collection he donated to…
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A Permanent Accusation: Art Confronts Lynching and Other Acts of Inhumanity
Wednesday January 30, 7pm A Permanent Accusation: Art Confronts Lynching and Other Acts of Inhumanity Moonstone Arts Center, 110A S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, 215-735-9600 Art, in all its forms, is powerful. Poems and music, paintings and dance make us feel as well as think. Art produces the “affect,” the internalized feeling and emotional…
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Why Black Media? A Panel Discussion
Wednesday January 30, 5pm Why Black Media? A Panel Discussion Department of Journalism of the Temple School of Media and Communication First Floor Atrium of Annenberg hall, on 13th street between Norris and Diamond Streets Over 100 years ago Ida B. Wells, one of the first investigative journalists and one of the first black women…
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A Discussion on Ida B. Wells with John Bracey, Paula Giddings & Sonia Sanchez
Thursday January 31, 2013, 7pm A Discussion on Ida B. Wells with John Bracey, Paula Giddings & Sonia Sanchez District 1199C Philadelphia Headquarters, 1319 Locust St, Philadelphia, PA 19107, 215-735-1300 No lectures, no scripts, just three amazing, intelligent people discussing an ancestor, a “shero,” an inspiration and her relevance to today. Do you know how…
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The Continuum of Abuse: Slavery, Black Laws, Contract Labor, Jim Crow, Lynching, Prison/Industrial Complex, Death Penalty
Sunday February 3, 2013 – 2pm The Continuum of Abuse: Slavery, Black Laws, Contract Labor, Jim Crow, Lynching, Prison/Industrial Complex, Death Penalty Ethical Humanist Society of Philadelphia, 1906 S. Rittenhouse Square, 215-735-3456 How come executions in the 21st Century follow the same pattern that lynching did in the 19th Century? It is significant that the…
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A Discussion with Mia Bay, Michael Coard and Linn Washington
Saturday January 26, 2013 – 7pm To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells A Discussion with Mia Bay, Michael Coard and Linn Washington Moderated by Erica Armstrong Dunbar Moonstone Arts Center, 110A S. 13th Street, second floor, 215-735 9600 Two historians, a lawyer and a journalist discuss Ida B. Wells and…
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To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells
Saturday January 26, 2013 – 10am To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells African American Museum in Philadelphia, 701 Arch Street, 215-574-0380 A Teacher Workshop with Mia Bay – Act 48 Credits are available Contact Melvin Garrison, 215-4000-5694, garrison@philasd.org Co-sponsored by the School District of Philadelphia’s Teaching American History Grant Program…
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Presenters for Ida B. Wells
Pam Africa is the coordinator for the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal and stands as a contemporary figure in the tradition of the early women’s rights advocates who were also fighters against slavery, for the betterment of the working classes, and for the freedom of political prisoners. She is a world significant…
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Schedule for Ida B. Wells
Wednesday January 23, 4pm Cecil B. Moore Branch Library, 2320 Cecil B. Moore Avenue, 215-685-2766 Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice and the Cecil B. Moore Philadelphia Freedom Fighters– Co-sponsored by: Cecil B. Moore Philadelphia Freedom Fighters and the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries, Hosted by Cecil B. Moore Branch…