GOOD MONDAY MORNING P.O.U.! This week's series will take a look at African Dances, and how some of them have influenced modern dance, particularly hip hop dance moves. MAPOUKA … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: African Dances
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Wednesday Open Thread: Black Beauty Pageant Winners
Carole Anne-Marie Gist (born May 8, 1969) is an American TV host, model and first African-American woman to win the Miss USA title. Gist first won the title of Miss Michigan USA and went on to win the Miss USA crown on March 2, 1990, in Wichita, Kansas. The 1990 pageant had representatives from Georgia (Brenda Leithleiter), Alaska (Karin Elizabeth Meyer), Kentucky (Tiffany … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Black Beauty Pageant Winners
Friday Open Thread: Medical Racism – Experiments on African-Americans
Friday Finally. In 1994, following the publication of a series of articles on plutonium injections of American citizens, President Clinton appointed an advisory committee on human radiation experiments to investigate the matter and gave it access to thousands of secret documents. Jonathan D. Moreno, a biomedical ethicist at the University of Virginia, worked for the … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Medical Racism – Experiments on African-Americans
Monday Open Thread: Medical Racism – Experiments on African-Americans
After viewing "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks", this week's subject came to me. Yes, it will make you angry, but history often does. Our bodies have been used to advance all manner of science in this country and more stories need to be told. We know of the Tuskegee Experiments, and now the story of Henrietta Lacks, but there are many more. In the 1840s, a Virginia … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Medical Racism – Experiments on African-Americans
Saturday Open Thread: Africa’s Great Civilizations
GOOD MORNING, P.O.U.! PART VI: COMMERCE AND THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Africa’s Great Civilizations