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“Sembene: The Making of African Cinema” (1994) x “Caméra d’Afrique” (1983) remind us that cinema can be resistance, a weapon against erasure, and a bridge back to ourselves.
Through rare interviews and archival footage, we see Sembene’s fearless commitment to telling African stories for African audiences. His iconic... See more
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Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
The Upstream Doctors: Medical Innovators Track Sickness to Its Source (Kindle Single) (TED Books)
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Epistemicide is at the heart of colonization, but we cannot decolonize our minds by unknowing modernity. Like it or not, your belonging is dependent on a reclamation of the dismissed ancient and a reconciliation with the dominant modern.
Sebene Selassie • You Belong: A Call for Connection
out of raw self-interest; the racist policies necessitate racist ideas to justify them—lingers over the life of racism.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Our systems, institutions, leaders and narratives about who and what we are — our lack of compassion and limited definitions of what a valued member of society is — are failing us. They have been failing us for quite some time
Stephanie Dinkins • Afro-Now-Ism
This was not a problem specific to my school or my childhood—it’s a problem