On Tuesday, Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay became the first Black African cyclist to win the stage of the Grand Tours. Girmay won the 10th stage of the Giro d’Italia, one of the three Grand Tours, along with the Tour de France and Vuelta a España, beating Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel to the finish in Jesi, …
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DURBAN, South Africa — In 2009, officials in the port city of Durban moved hundreds of residents from their tin huts near the city center to a flood-prone area south of the city as they prepared to host next year’s World Football Cup. The new settlement, a narrow cluster of drywall slums, was built without …
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African art has had a place in the Museum of Modern Art since its early days—although it might not be the African art you might think. In 1935, when the museum settled in a townhouse on West 53rd Street, curator James Johnson Sweeney “African Negro Art” 600 examples included Dogon painted masks, Baoulé ivory and …
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Object by object, there is no better exhibition in the city.Origin of African Civilization” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There isn’t another one filled with ethical and political tensions. A collection of 42 sculptures in one of the Met’s Egyptian galleries brings together pieces here for the first time, centuries after the Ancient Egyptian …
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NAIROBI, Kenya – In just the past three weeks, the percentage of Kenyans who have tested positive for the coronavirus has increased from less than 1 percent to over 30 percent – the country’s highest ever positive rate. In Uganda, about 50 lawmakers and their staff, some of whom have been vaccinated, tested positive this …
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He spoke and wrote about African civilizations as an endless variety of ethical, philosophical, and aesthetic systems. He said a “guerrilla scholarship” that combines art history, anthropology, dance history, religious studies, sociology and ethnomusicology is needed to grasp their complexity and sophistication. This hybrid practice has repeatedly taken him from the academic ivory tower and …
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BLACK PRESIDENT Hope and Anger in the Age of Obamaby Claude A. Clegg III The election of the 44th president of the United States was not only a nationally historic event, but a transformative moment for Black Americans. This marked the transition to an entirely new understanding of themselves as citizens of America; it was …
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South African pharmaceutical manufacturer Aspen Pharmacare announced on Tuesday that it has completed the first agreement to control the production of a Covid-19 vaccine in Africa. The agreement with Johnson & Johnson will allow Aspen to bottle and market the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in Africa under the brand name Aspenovax. Aspen would then have …
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South African pharmaceutical manufacturer Aspen Pharmacare announced on Tuesday that it has completed the first agreement to control the production of a Covid-19 vaccine in Africa. The agreement with Johnson & Johnson will allow Aspen to bottle and market the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in Africa under the brand name Aspenovax. Aspen would then have …
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Growing up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in the 1950s, Kariamu Welsh was fascinated with the older girls and their double Dutch jump rope moves. Once he was old enough to participate, he quickly excelled, rocking and weaving with the best of them. Years later, in the 1970s, when she became an innovative choreographer …
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French President Emmanuel Macron said in 2017 that African artifacts were returned from French museums. “priority” Cécile Fakhoury discovered a figure for her government that truly shocked and unsettled her: about 90 percent of the sales from her gallery in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, were made to international collectors. considering the reason Galerie Cecile Fakhoury Selling …
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5. “I Can Destroy You” I think “I Can Destroy You” was the most important TV hour I’ve watched in the last 1-2 years. It’s really interesting to see what happens to an assault victim, because it doesn’t end like in Law & Order: SVU, where they go to the cops and the cops do …
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