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Description:: PORTUGUESE: Cartaz do ciclo de debates e exibição cinematográfica sobre cinema e escravidão, promovido pela Cinemateca Brasileira em parceria com outras instituições<br>ENGLISH: Poster created for the cycle of discussions and movie exibhitionism about cinema and slavery promoted by Brazilian Cinemateca and other organisms
Date:: August 17 - 29, 1988
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Soweto Black Organization

Description:: PORTUGUESE: Cartaz de evento cultural comemorativo dos 100 anos da abolição, com o propósito de desmistificar o legado da abolição legal da escravidão no Brasil<br>ENGLISH: Poster created for the cultural event on the 100 years without abolition in Brazil, desmystifying the legacy of legal abolition of slavery in 1888
Date:: August 12, 1988
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Soweto Black Organization

Description:: ENGLISH: The Sunday Times Newspaper of May 31, had stories and headlines including; "More Refugees Arrive."- Thousands Flee War-torn in Sudan."Cholera outbreak in Zambia kills 35 people."
Date:: May 31, 1992
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: September 7, 1961 East Africa And Rhodesia Newspaper no. 1926 Covers stories such as "Africans Were Arabs' Slaves, " "Independence For Kenya Next Year" And "Persuasion Essential In Africa."
Date:: September 7, 1961
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: The East Africa and Rhodesia August 9, 1962 issue no. 1974. Politician of Kenya Jomo Kenyatta advice to kikuyu women who were wearing coloured scarves to stop wearing them as it is just a waste of money to cover their heads, Mr. James Gichuru, Kenya Finance Minister reported missing to the police by the colonial office.
Date:: August 9, 1962
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: ENGLISH: The Target Newspaper Issue no. 321 of August 24-September 7, 1980, The leading headline is, "Machakos people work for water; Before President Moi ordered the Ministry of Water development to speed up on improving water resources in Machakos District, the local people were already busy constructing dams across seasonal rivers and improving other available water resources."
Date:: August 24 - September 7, 1980
Agosti 24 - Septemba 7, 1980
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: McMillan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection

Description:: PORTUGUESE: Cartaz comemorativo do centenário da abolição legal de três séculos de escravidão no Brasil (1888-1988)<br>ENGLISH: Poster celebrating the 100 years of the legal abolition of three centuries of slavery in Brazil (1888-1988)
Date:: 1988
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Soweto Black Organization

Description:: SPANISH: Luis Albert habla en entrevista sobre la llegada de los primeros africanos trasladados a República Dominicana, entonces llamada La Española, para realizar trabajos forzosos. Comenta el surgimiento del idioma creol como alternativa de comunicación entre los esclavos y la lucha de Lemba por la libertad. Menciona la influencia africana en diversos géneros musicales y, particularmente, explica el origen del son. Comenta que la música africana expresa un constante reclamo por la alegría y la libertad, y que los tambores son usados como otra forma de comunicación. Concluye hablando sobre algunas deidades propias de la santería.<br>ENGLISH: Luis Albert talks in an interview about the arrival of the first Africans transferred to the Dominican Republic, then called Hispaniola, to perform forced labor. He comments on the emergence of the Creole language as an alternative means of communication among the slaves and Lemba's struggle for freedom. Mentions the African influence in diverse musical genres and, particularly, explains the origin of the son. He comments that African music expresses a constant call for joy and freedom, and that drums are used as another form of communication. He concludes by talking about some of the deities of Santeria.
Date:: November 21, 1993
Resource Type:: sound recording
Collection:: The Ricardo Montejano Collection

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