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2. Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Remittances
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sullivan,Mark P. (Author)
- Format:
- Pamphlet
- Publication Date:
- 2016-04-06
- Published:
- Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 39 p., Restrictions on travel to Cuba have been a key and often contentious component in US efforts to isolate Cuba's communist government since the early 1960s. Under the George W. Bush Administration, restrictions on travel and on private remittances to Cuba were tightened. Congress took action in March 2009 by including two provisions in the FY2009 omnibus appropriations measure (P.L. 111-8) that eased restrictions on family travel and travel related to marketing and sale of agricultural and medical goods to Cuba -- Subsequently, in April 2009, President Obama announced that his Administration would go further and allow unlimited family travel and remittances. Tables.
3. Embrace the wide African Diaspora and all its faces
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Swain,Jeffrey (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 13-Mar 19, 2014
- Published:
- Coral Springs, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- South Florida Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 11 : 4A
- Notes:
- Blacks and Latinos have numerous historical connections. The moors of North Africa occupied Spain from about 700-1400 A.D., about the time of the Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Additionally, the slave trade which began with [Henry Louis Gates] the Navigator flourished from the 1440s, taking Africans into Portugal and Spain as servants. Many conquistadors of the New World brought with them free men of African ancestry. Finally, the Transatlantic Slave Trade sealed Afro-Hispanic connections as slaves intermingled voluntarily and involuntarily with their captors, creating variations in our color palate. Thus, our connections are longstanding. My point is that the African Diaspora experience, as was evidenced on Oscar night, is diverse and includes influences of blacks in Europe, Africa and all the Americas and the Caribbean. There are strands of the Diaspora in the Middle East, including Arab nations, and in places as unlikely as Mexico and China. So, blacks in America must begin to embrace our global heritage and we must also learn that our experiences are not superior but mere pieces of a wider tapestry of "colors." All are worth celebrating, researching and understanding. We are one great people cast to the winds by emigration and immigration, historical slavery, war, racial mixing and chance.
4. Ex-sprint great honored in U.S
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- May 2014
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 6 : 18
- Notes:
- [Dennis Johnson] received TJB's Pioneer Award and Johnson was recognized by the United States government as a Caribbean icon. He was presented with a U.S.
5. Often overlooked Black leader predicted the plight of the President
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Shim,Jermel W. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 12-Feb 18, 2014
- Published:
- Cleveland, OH
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Call & Post
- Journal Title Details:
- 7 : 3A-A.3
- Notes:
- Garvey identified the root causes of President Obama's plight in 1922 when he wrote: A terrible mistake was made between 40 and 50 years ago when Black men were elected to legislative assemblies all over the country, especially in the southern states and even at the national capital when representatives of this race occupied seats in Congress. Following his retirement in 2010, he embraced his passion for politics and human behavior and immersed himself into his new writing career which culminated in two books: A New Perspective on Race-related Problems in Corporate American Companies (Outcast Publishing) and Whom God Has Blessed Let No Man Curse (Infinity Publishing).
6. Representations of HIV/AIDS in contemporary Hispano-American and Caribbean culture : cuerpos suiSIDAs
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Subero,Gustavo (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 143 p., Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano-America and the Caribbean to narrativise, represent and understand HIV/AIDS as a social and human phenomenon, this book examines a wide range of cultural, artistic and media texts, as well as issues of human phenomenology, to understand the ways in which HIV positive individuals make sense of their own lives, and of the ways in which the rest of society sees them.
7. Tracts on Slavery
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Benezet,Anthony (Author), Hodgson,Adam (Author), Cropper,James (Author), Cooper,Thomas (Author), Taylor,John (Author), and Winn,T. S. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- s.l.: s.n.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- 5 vols.
- Notes:
- Set contains materials concerning slavery printed between 1774-1845. Contents include: Abstract of the Acts of Parliament for abolishing slave trade and of the orders in council, 1810; Letter to John Bull : to which is added the sketch of a plan for the safe, speedy, and effectual abolition of slavery, 1823; Immediate, not gradual abolition; or, an inquiry into the shortest, safest, and most effectual means of getting rid of West Indian slavery, 1824; Thoughts on the abolition of slavery ; humbly submitted in a letter to the King, 1824; Report of the debate in the House of Commons, June the 16th, 1825 on Dr. Lushington's motion respecting the deportation of Messrs. L.C. Lecesne and J. Escoffery, two persons of colour, from Jamaica, 1825; Account of a shooting excursion on the mountains near Dromilly Estate, in the parish of Trelawny, and Island of Jamaica, 1825.