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2. BRAZILIAN Dance Troupe celebrates AFRICAN PAST
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Booker,Bobbi (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-02-27
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Philadelphia Tribune
- Journal Title Details:
- 15 : 1B
- Notes:
- The Philadelphia region was the site of a rare, artistic treat when Balé Folclórico, Brazil's premiere professional folk dance company made a special Black History Month visit. Formed in 1988, the 33-member troupe of dancers, musicians, and singers perform a repertory based on various Bahian folkloric dances of African origin, including: capoeira (a form of martial arts), samba and other cultural traditions celebrated during Carnival. Hailing from Salvador, in the northeastern state of Bahia, Balé Folclòrico represents Bahia's most important cultural manifestations under a contemporary theatrical vision that reflects its popular origins.
3. Black History Month should be appreciated
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Julal,Beverly (Author) and Davis,Clair (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-02-11
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Philadelphia Tribune
- Journal Title Details:
- 13 : 6B
- Notes:
- [Marcus Garvey] studied all of the literature he could find on African history and culture and decided to launch the Universal Negro Improvement Association with the goal of unifying "all the Negro peoples of the world into one great body and to establish a country and government absolutely on their own". In addition, Garvey started his own newspaper. He did not have a forum to express his philosophy in the white newspapers, so he started the Negro World. The Negro World was the U.N.I.A. weekly newspaper, published in French and Spanish as well as English. In it African history and heroes were glorified.
4. Caribbean nations got head start on equality
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Julal,Beverly (Author) and Davis,Clair (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-02-26
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Philadelphia Tribune
- Journal Title Details:
- 15 : 7A
- Notes:
- With the new law instituted, the face of the population of the Caribbean evolved and whites eventually became a minority although they continued to hold their superior social status. According to a book called "Caribbean Islands - The Sugar Revolutions and Slavery," by the early 19th century, less than 5 percent of the population in Grenada, Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Jamaica, Tobago were white. They accounted for less than 10 percent of the population of Anguilla, Montserrat, St. Kitts, St. Lucia and the Virgin Islands. Only in the Bahamas, Barbados and Trinidad were more than 10 percent of the population white.
5. New series documents Blacks in Latin America
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Booker,Bobbi (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-04-15
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Philadelphia Tribune
- Journal Title Details:
- 43 : 8B
- Notes:
- This spring, Professor [Henry Louis Gates Jr.] returns to PBS with "Black in Latin America," a new four-part, four hour series. Focusing on six Latin American countries - Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico and Peru - the series explores the influence of the African diaspora on Latin America. On his journey. Gates discovers a shared legacy of colonialism, slavery and people marked by African roots. In his new series. Gates sets out on a quest to discover how Latin Americans of African descent live now, and how their countries acknowledge - or deny - their African past.