Category Archives : Blog
Former programs: international webinar re Reparations, April 22
webinar: “The Global 21st Century Research University: Choices, Challenges, Futures.” Regarding developments at The University of the West Indies: The silence persists around the tenure of the Vice Chancellor Prof Hilary Beckles, and the proposals on faculty governance. There was a special event on the contested space of universities across the Global South and Global […]
Former BPAF webinar: Pan-Africanism, Reparations, and Restorative Justice” April 22 1pm, see flyer and register link here
Boston-Pan-African-Flyer-April-22-2021 at 1:00pm
Africa True University online
If this whole highlighted link does not work — type directly into your web-browser window this link: https://trueafricauniversity.com/ in order to use the link to: Search courses or instructor, Browse, Log In, Join TAU, View Webinars. TRUE Africa University has partnered with the MIT Center for International Studies to host an eleven-week webinar series focused […]
Mimi Jones obituary Boston Globe Jly 27, 2020 — see separate post re and NYTimes article Dec 23 2020
Boston Globe Obituary (photos show separately) Overlooked for her role in a galvanizing civil rights protest, Mimi Jones dies at 73 By Bryan Marquard Globe Staff,Updated July 27, 2020, 7:21 p.m. After Black protesters integrated a whites-only pool, the motel owner poured acid near Mrs. Jones.Courtesy of Clennon L. King. A news photo of the […]
Mimi Jones noted in NY Times article (see posts below from B-Globe for photo))
From NewYork Times Dec 23/2020 Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year. Jones, in front, as the manager pours in a cleaning agent, 1964. Horace Cort/Associated Press MIMI JONES b. 1947 From a young age, she understood the power of public resistance. By Maggie Jones When Mimi Jones was […]
Important new book and programs on PanAfricanism
Adebajo’s published comments on his new book: ADEKEYE ADEBAJO: Prophets, poets and African pantheon BUSINESS DAY BL PREMIUM 29 NOVEMBER 2020 – Pan-Africanism can be defined as the efforts to promote the political, socioeconomic and cultural unity of Africa and its diaspora. I recently edited a 38-chapter volume on The pan-African Pantheon: Prophets, Poets and Philosophers (Jacana, 2020). With […]
Middle-Passage Marker at Boston Harbor
Included here below is a link to a video that describes the nature of the project that produced the Boston Harbor marker in memory of the victims of “The Middle Passage” in the slave trade to America. Ms. Ann Chinn was the Executive Director of this “Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project.” Ms Lamerchie […]
Haitian Women Association online celebration Oct 17 7pm
last year’s Annual BPAF program for the Worldwide African Diaspora Oct 24 2pm online
FOR EVENT FLYER: click here> BPAF Flyer-10th-Annual Pan African flyer