November 26, 2009
uprisingradio.org (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” — Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
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Duncan Nugget #107: Break Some Rules?
The Young Professional Blogs Aggregator (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Have you ever noticed that many of the greatest people to ever walk the planet were rule-breakers? Rosa Parks, Ghandi, Frederick Douglass, Newton, Muhammad Ali, Benjamin Franklin, Socrates, Joan or... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit...
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"I have not now occasion to add another word"
Elektratig (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
... the illustration : A sheet music cover illustrated with a portrait of prominent black abolitionist Frederick Douglass as a runaway slave. Douglass flees barefoot from two mounted pursuers who appear across the river behind him with their pack of dogs. Ahead, to the right, a signpost points toward New England. The cover's text states that "The Fugitive's Song" was...
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Sugar Ray’s Harlem, Back in the Day
New York Times (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... of New York’s social scene.The occasion on Tuesday was a book reading at the Hue-Man Bookstore, at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, near 124th Street, a block from the old nightclub, long closed now.As Wil Haygood read from his new book, “Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson” (Knopf), some of the gray-haired guests murmured in agreement; they hung around afterward...
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Indoctrination Through Celebration--An Essay by Solomon Comissiong
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Frederick Douglass, anti-slavery organizer and journalist. His July 5, 1852 speech in Rochester, New York is still cited some 157 years later. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Indoctrination Through Celebration by Solomon Comissiong US society is immersed in contradictions. However, subliminal indoctrination tends to mask even the most glaring of these contradictions,...
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Thanksgiving Dining Guide to Harlem
UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... Billie’s Black 271 West 119th Street 212-280-2248 _________________ Gospel Uptown 2110 Frederick Douglass Blvd. 212. 280. 2110 _________________ The River Room Riverbank State Park @145th Street 212-491-1500 *call to confirm that reservations are available. {Originally published 11/21/2006} Posted in Restaurants
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On this day in history: American Woman Suffrage Association formed, 1869
The Modern Historian (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
In January 1866, at a meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Boston, Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone proposed the creation of a new organisation with the goal of universal suffrage. On 10th May, Anthony and Stone founded the American Equal Rights Association (AERA) along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass. The relationship between black rights activists and woman...