Yearly Archives: 2018


Video re AfricanStudiesAssociation racial RUPTURE issue

The African Studies Association  (ASA)  Racial  “RUPTURE” issue:  In the 1969 ASA annual conference, held in Montreal Canada that year, the African Americans and  Africans walked out, following the members’ rejection of demands from “The ASA Black Caucus” for serious improvement in the representation and recognition of Blacks in the leadership, programs and awards of […]


2018 Annual BPAF Reception for the worldwide African Diaspora Oct. 26

flyer>   BPAF-8th-Annual FALL RECEPTION pdf   text of the flyer   The BPAF Annual Fall Pan African Welcome Reception was held on Friday, October 26, 2018 “Returning to the Source: The Future of Reparations and Restorative Justice for Afrikan Enslavement”: Report to the Community Place: University of Massachusetts Boston Snowden Auditorium, Wheatley Hall, 1st […]


Mimi Jones honored at Celtics game Feb 2nd

Mimi Jones, a BPAF Board member, a long time Roxbury resident activist and community builder, a  founder and  leader of the “Friends of the Library” organization for the Dudley Sq. Branch of the Boston Public Library, and a Boston Historical Society member, was honored as A Hero Among Us, by the Boston Celtics at the […]