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#Blackhistory #africanstories #afrooptimism 💪🏾🔥 #femalestories @yale with @get_repost The Yale Women Faculty Forum (WFF) on Sept. 21 unveiled a portrait of Otelia Cromwell ’26 Ph.D., the first African-American woman to receive a doctorate from Yale. The portrait, painted by Jennifer Packer ’12 M.F.A., was commissioned in 2017 by WFF to honor Cromwell’s place in Yale’s history. Read more: [ news.yale.edu ] . 1. Otelia Cromwell portrait 2. Claire Bowern, Chair of the Women Faculty Forum and Professor of Linguistics 3. Vera Wells, Yale College ’71 and Director of the Sylvia Ardyn Boone Memorial Project 4. President Peter Salovey giving his remarks 5. Guests viewing the painting 6. Unveiled Voices, Unvarnished Memories: The Cromwell Family in Slavery and Segregation, 1692-1972, is a history of the Cromwell family written by Dr. Adelaide Cromwell, Otelia Cromwell’s niece. . #Yale #OteliaCromwell #painter #contemporaryart #artist #JenniferPacker #art #portraitpainting @yalewff https://www.instagram.com/p/CBByAUtJPCk/?igshid=2cehfe823fqs

Viva The Art of Optimism 💪🏾🤸🏽‍♂️👌🦚@nelsonmakamo with @get_repost Visions of a limitless future! 🙏🏾 @time #optimism #makeadifference #change #timemagazine #afrooptimism #stories https://www.instagram.com/p/Btlg0E9BIVa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nchzuiopb183

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Billie Holiday’s 1939 harrowing hit Strange Fruit illuminated the scourge that was American racism. It was written by a white, Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx, Abel Meeropol, as a protest poem against the lynching of African Americans. Africa Rising In Kenya is an open conversation that seeks to unpack the African Story. There are people who lived in an era characterised by the burning of flesh as routine, validated by the worth of being labelled a slave. WHAT DID SLAVERY IN AFRICA REALLY LOOK LIKE? Slavery existed in parts of Africa (like the rest of the world) and was a part of the economic structure of some societies for many centuries, although the extent varied. In many African communities, where land could not be owned, enslavement of individuals was used as a means to increase the influence a person had and expand connections. Slave practices in Africa were used during different periods to justify specific forms of European engagement with the peoples of Africa. 18th century writers in Europe claimed that slavery in Africa was quite brutal in order to justify the Atlantic slave trade. Later writers used similar arguments to justify intervention and eventual colonization by European powers to end slavery in Africa. While slavery had been banned in most European powers by 1848, the scramble for Africa was slowly gaining ground. Established empires, notably Britain, Portugal and France, had already claimed for themselves vast areas of Africa and Asia, and emerging imperial powers like Italy and Germany had done likewise on a smaller scale. • Slavery In Africa before colonisation
• How is Fatuma’s Voice is Righting Africa’s Story?
• Who is Sonstar Peterson? http://www.fatumasvoice.org/africa-rising-kenya-sonstar-peterson/ #Fatuma #FatumasVoice #FatumasVoiceNairobi #Pawa254 #Nairobi #Youth #Africa #AfricaRising #AfroOptimist #AfroOptimism #Africa #Black #Sonstar #Destiny #Freedom #Slavery #Kenya #AfricaRising #AfricaRisingInKenya

Tight suit you had on at the Launch bro....#Books&Rhymes on replay.....#AfroOptimism #WeTakingOver #VRMG @iamedemgh

The tropical beauty that has always defined Mozambique is well known, but Read more...here for interesting and OPTIMISTIC "Did you knows".