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Kolmanskop is a ghost town in southern Namibia founded in 1908, when diamonds were discovered in the area. Following WWI, the town went into decline, as the world diamond price fell, and Namibia’s producing hub moved to Oranjemund. The town was completely abandoned in 1956, and today the desert is slowly encroaching on the town’s remains.
Near the city of Morondava, on the West coast of Madagascar lies an ancient forest of Baobab trees. Unique to Madagascar, the endemic species is sacred to the Malagasy people, and rightly so. Walking amongst these giants is like nothing else on this planet. Some of the trees here are over a thousand years old. It is a spiritual place, almost magical.
1920 - Thelma and Bonnie, called the "Graceful Creoles," posing coyly for the photographer at the Lido.
Shackles for Children during American Slavery
Che & Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir
1864 - A group of African Americans aboard the USS Vermont. The United States Navy employed thousands of freed slaves during the Civil War.
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The Great Bob Marley....at the airport (hey, I guess we all have to do it, "wait for our flight")
1880 - One of the remarkable cases of musical genius was that of Blind Tom, uneducated and born to slave parents, could play the most difficult classical compositions with utmost ease. The fact that he was mentally weak was another factor that added to the bewilderment of the music lovers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Tom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Tom
writer Chester Himes, 1946
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Incredible Picture: MLK & Thích Nhất Hạnh
Pan-Africanist Walter Rodney (1942–1980) was born to a working-class family in Guyana. He earned his Ph.D. at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in 1966. His thesis, published in 1970, A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545–1800 has remained a classic.
Teaching in Tanzania and Jamaica, he gained international attention for his advocacy for the working poor. Rodney founded the Working People’s Alliance. He was killed in 1980 by a car bomb while he was running for office.
From the Schomburg Center’s online exhibition Africana Age:http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-black-power.html
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